939
This page relates to the year 939 Calendrier Julien.
Events
Asia
- Ngo Guyen beats the Chinese with the Bataille of Bach Dang, rejects them out of the North of the Vietnam and founds the first national dynasty.
- Reign in India of Krishna III, king Rastrakuta of Malkhed (fine in 966). It restores the power of the kingdom of Malkhed by subjecting the Chola (949), the Chera and the Pandya until the extreme south of the India.
Europe
- July 14th: Beginning of the Pontificate of Etienne VIII (fine in 942).
- : Battle of Trans which sees Alain Barbetorte and the count Bérenger of Rennes to crush the Viking S. It is the end of the Scandinave occupation in Brittany.
- October 2nd: Othon I {{er}} crushes the feudal Germanic ones with the battle of Andernach. It dispossesses the dukes and names in their place of the members of his family which it revokes with her own way.
- October 27th: Beginning of the reign of Edmond Ier old the (Edmund I the Elder, 922 - 946), king of the Wessex.
- Norwegian Óláfr, wire of Gudfridr, devastates the area of York and the the Midlands. He manages to take again the Royaume Viking of York and to assujetir the Northumbrie and the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. He makes beat currencies in York in 940. Edmond Ier represses the revolt of the Northumberland then subjects the Mercie.
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the Kingdom of León under the control of Ramire II, victorious with the ditch of Simancas, takes Madrid with the Arabs of Abd Al-Rahman III.
Births in 939
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Romain II (Byzantine emperor)
- Hugues Capet, king de France and founder of the dynasty of the Capétiens.
Death in 939
- Gislebert de Lotharingie.
- Heberhard, duke of Franconie.
- October 27th: Athelstan, king of Wessex
- Muhammad Al-Mahdi, the last imâm for the Shiite S Duodécimains
- Pietro II Candiano, Doge of Venice
- Ibn Abd Rabbih, Andalusian poet (born in 860), author of an anthology of the purely Eastern poems.
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