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Genoa has a popular uprising that ends control of the city-state by the Spinola and Dario families (see 1335); the first doge is installed in an effort to end disorders among the city's faction, and although both the Spinola and Dario families will attempt on several occasions to regain power they will not succeed (see 1531; Milan, 1353).
Venice conquers Treviso and gains her first mainland possession.
The Mongol minister Bayan who has dominated China's Yuan dynasty empire since 1333 is deposed by his nephew and sent into exile as rebellions erupt throughout the country. Having assumed nearly complete control of the government from the emperor Togon-temür, Bayan has tried to stop the absorption of Mongols into Chinese culture, going so far as to propose that all Chinese with the surnames Chang, Wang, Liu, Li, and Chao (90 percent of the population) be executed. Many of his policies will be reversed, but the Chinese economy is deteriorating and the Yuan dynasty's days are numbered (see 1355).
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Food & agriculture
Zen priest Muso-Soseki introduces the use of smooth, flat-topped stones in his garden in Kyoto, Japan. See also 1274 Food & agriculture.
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This article is about the year 1339.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1300s 1310s 1320s – 1330s – 1340s 1350s 1360s |
| Years: | 1336 1337 1338 – 1339 – 1340 1341 1342 |
| 1339 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1339 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1339 MCCCXXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2092 |
| Armenian calendar | 788 ԹՎ ՉՁԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6089 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -505 – -504 |
| Bengali calendar | 746 |
| Berber calendar | 2289 |
| English Regnal year | 12 Edw. 3 – 13 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1883 |
| Burmese calendar | 701 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6847 – 6848 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年十一月廿一日 (3975/4035-11-21) — to —
己卯年十二月初一日(3976/4036-12-1) |
| Coptic calendar | 1055 – 1056 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1331 – 1332 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5099 – 5100 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1395 – 1396 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1261 – 1262 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4440 – 4441 |
| Holocene calendar | 11339 |
| Iranian calendar | 717 – 718 |
| Islamic calendar | 739 – 740 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3672 |
| Minguo calendar | 573 before ROC 民前573年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1882 |
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Year 1339 (MCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- September 23 – Simone Boccanegra is elected as the first Doge of Genoa.
Date unknown
- Emperor Go-Murakami accedes to the throne of Japan.
- Kashmir is conquered by Muslims.
- All streets in the city of Florence are paved, making it the first European city to do so.
- The Kremlin in Moscow is built.
Births
- July 23 – King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384)
- November 1 – Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
- date unknown
- Pope Alexander V (d. 1410)
- Erik Magnusson, king of parts of Sweden 1356–1359 (d. 1359)
- Frederick, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut (d. 1393)
- John V, Duke of Brittany (d. 1399)
- Juana Manuel of Castile, queen consort of Castile (d. 1381)
- Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, Arabian encyclopaedist (d. 1414)
Deaths
- February 17 – Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)
- May 26 – Aldona Ona, Queen of Poland (b. c. 1309)
- August 16 – Azzone Visconti, founder of the state of Milan (b. 1302)
- September 1 – Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1305)
- September 19 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
- October 29 – Alexander I, Grand Prince of Tver (b. 1301)
- date unknown – Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1260)
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