1339
Year 1339 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.Events
January–December
- June - Battle of Laupen: The Canton of Bern defeats the forces of Fribourg.
- September 18 - Emperor Go-Murakami accedes to the throne of Japan.
- September 24 - Simone Boccanegra is elected, as the first Doge of Genoa.
Date unknown
- Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir, having defeated Kota Rani, Hindu queen regnant of Kashmir, in battle at Jayapur, asks her to marry him, but she commits suicide rather than do so; thus he takes over sole rule of Kashmir, beginning the Muslim Sayyid Dynasty.
- All streets in the city of Florence are paved, the first European city in post-Roman times where this has happened.
- The Moscow Kremlin is first referred to as a kremlin.
- The weak Black Death epidemic spreads through the southern parts of Asia.
Births
- July 23 - Louis I, Duke of Anjou
- November 1 - Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria
- date unknown
- * Pope Alexander V, Antipope
- * Erik Magnusson, king of parts of Sweden 1356-1359
- * Frederick, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut
- * Pope Innocent VII
- * John IV, Duke of Brittany
- * Juana Manuel of Castile, queen consort of Castile
- * Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, Persian Arab encyclopaedist
Deaths
- February 17 - Otto, Duke of Austria
- May 26 - Aldona Ona, Queen of Poland
- August 16 - Azzone Visconti, founder of the state of Milan
- August 25 - Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham
- September 1 - Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria
- September 19 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan
- October 29 - Grand Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver
