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Year '1439' was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1439

Births

Deaths

Events of 1439

★ Battle of Grotnik, which ended the hussite movement in Poland

★ Eric of Pomerania, King of Sweden, Denmark and Norway is declared deposed in Sweden. Karl Knutsson Bonde continues to serve as Regent of Sweden

★ Logabirum is mentioned for the first time

★ July 16 - Kissing is banned in England

★ September 8 - Cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi captures Foligno, ending Trinci's signoria.

★ November 12 - In England, Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

★ Great Ordinance adopted by the French Estates-General. This measure granted the king the exclusive right to raise troops, and established the taxation measure known as the ''taille'' in support of a standing army.

Births

★ May 9 - Pope Pius III (died 1503)

★ July 26 - Sigismund of Bavaria (died 1501)

★ Hua Sui, Chinese inventor and printer (d. 1513)

Deaths

★ April 30 - Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (born 1382)

★ May 5 - Spytek z Melsztyna, Polish nobleman (born 1398) (killed in battle)

★ June 24 - Duke Frederick IV of Austria (born 1382)

★ October 20 - Ambrose the Camaldulian, Italian theologian

★ October 27 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1397)

★ ''date unknown'' - Pietro Loredan, Italian nobleman and admiral