1939

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942

1939 by topic:
Subject
Archaeology Architecture Art Aviation Awards Comics Film Literature Poetry Meteorology Music Country Rail transport Radio Science Sports Television
By country
Australia Canada China France Germany India Ireland Japan New Zealand Norway Palestine Mandate Philippines South Africa Soviet Union Sweden Turkey United Kingdom United States
Leaders
Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders Territorial governors Religious leaders Law
Birth and death categories
Births Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works Introductions

1939 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1939 MCMXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2692
Armenian calendar	1388 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԸ
Assyrian calendar	6689
Bahá'í calendar	95–96
Bengali calendar	1346
Berber calendar	2889
British Regnal year	3 Geo. 6 – 4 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar	2483
Burmese calendar	1301
Byzantine calendar	7447–7448
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4635 or 4575 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4636 or 4576
Coptic calendar	1655–1656
Discordian calendar	3105
Ethiopian calendar	1931–1932
Hebrew calendar	5699–5700
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1995–1996
- Shaka Samvat	1860–1861
- Kali Yuga	5039–5040
Holocene calendar	11939
Igbo calendar	939–940
Iranian calendar	1317–1318
Islamic calendar	1357–1358
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 14 (昭和１４年)
Javanese calendar	1869–1870
Juche calendar	28
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4272
Minguo calendar	ROC 28 民國28年
Nanakshahi calendar	471
Thai solar calendar	2481–2482
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1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1939th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 939th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1930s decade. This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the deadliest conflict in human history.

Below, events of World War II have the WWII prefix.