Events in 1939

209 notable events from 1939. Page 1 of 3.

• Winter War
  Nov 30, 1939–Mar 13, 1940 · Finland
• Aktion T4
  1939–Jan 1, 1941 · Germany
• Battles of Khalkhin Gol
  May 11, 1939–Sep 16, 1939 · Mongolia
• Death marches during the Holocaust
  1939–May 1945 · Germany
• Gleiwitz incident
  Aug 31, 1939 · Poland
• Air raids on Japan
  Aug 15, 1939–Aug 15, 1945 · Japan
• Strategic bombing during World War II
  Sep 1, 1939–Sep 2, 1945 · Vietnam
• Oswald Pohl
  Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1945 · —
• Kraków Ghetto
  Dec 10, 1939 · Poland
• Battle of Westerplatte
  Sep 1, 1939–Sep 7, 1939 · Poland
• War crimes of the Wehrmacht
  Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1945 · Poland
• Siege of Warsaw (1939)
  Sep 8, 1939–Sep 28, 1939 · Poland
• Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig
  Sep 1, 1939 · Poland
• Bloody Sunday (1939)
  Sep 3, 1939 · Poland
• Danzig crisis
  Apr 28, 1939–Sep 1, 1939 · Poland
• Otto Rasch
  Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1941 · Poland
• Child euthanasia in Nazi Germany
  1939–1945 · —
• Shelling of Mainila
  Nov 26, 1939 · Russian Federation
• Venlo incident
  Nov 9, 1939 · Netherlands
• Genthin rail disaster
  Dec 22, 1939 · Germany
• Erich Naumann
  Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1944 · Poland
• Intelligenzaktion
  Sep 1939 · Poland
• Paul Ogorzow
  Aug 1, 1939–Jul 1, 1941 · —
• Operation Tannenberg
  Sep 1939–Jan 1940 · Poland
• 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania
  Mar 20, 1939 · —
• Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946)
  1939–1946 · —
• Piaśnica massacres
  1939 · Poland
• Bombing of Warsaw in World War II
  Sep 1, 1939–Sep 27, 1939 · Poland
• Nazi war crimes in occupied Poland during World War II
  1939–1945 · Poland
• Palmiry massacre
  Dec 7, 1939–Jul 17, 1941 · Poland
• Bombing of Wieluń
  Sep 1, 1939 · Poland
• British pet massacre
  1939 · United Kingdom
• 1939 Chillán earthquake
  Jan 24, 1939 · Chile
• Spanish coup of March 1939
  Mar 5, 1939–Mar 12, 1939 · Spain
• Sonderaktion Krakau
  Nov 6, 1939 · Poland
• OUN Uprising of 1939
  Oct 1, 1939 · Ukraine
• Barbara Newhall Follett
  Dec 7, 1939 · United States
• Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany
  Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1944 · Poland
• 1939 Erzincan earthquake
  Dec 26, 1939 · Türkiye
• Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz)
  Oct 1939 · Poland
• Ciepielów massacre
  Sep 9, 1939 · Poland
• War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II
  1939 · —
• Battle of Grodno (1939)
  Sep 20, 1939–Sep 24, 1939 · Belarus
• Hitler's reference to the Armenian genocide
  Aug 22, 1939 · —
• Evacuation of Finnish Karelia
  from 1939 · Russian Federation
• Horst and Erna Petri
  Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1945 · Ukraine
• Jabłonków incident
  Aug 26, 1939 · Czechia
• Bombing of Helsinki in World War II
  1939–1944 · Germany
• Voyage of the Damned
  May 13, 1939–Jun 17, 1939 · —
• 1939 Liechtenstein putsch
  Mar 24, 1939 · Liechtenstein
• Wawer massacre
  Dec 27, 1939 · Poland
• Black Friday bushfires
  Jan 13, 1939 · Australia
• Battle of Szack
  Sep 28, 1939 · Ukraine
• Tientsin incident
  Jun 14, 1939–Aug 20, 1939 · China
• Battle of Barking Creek
  Sep 6, 1939 · United Kingdom
• Orzeł incident
  Sep 18, 1939 · Estonia
• German war crimes during the invasion of Poland
  Sep 1, 1939–Oct 25, 1939 · Poland
• 1939 Neuhammer disaster
  Aug 15, 1939 · Poland
• Lloyd L. Gaines
  Mar 19, 1939 · United States
• Executions in the Valley of Death
  Jan 1, 1939 · Poland
• Pacification actions in German-occupied Poland
  Jan 1, 1939 · Poland
• Tarnów train station bombing
  Aug 28, 1939 · Poland
• Battle of Czajánek's barracks
  Mar 14, 1939 · Czechia
• German repressions against the people of Bydgoszcz
  Nov 1, 1939 · Poland
• Częstochowa massacre
  Sep 4, 1939–Sep 6, 1939 · Poland
• Battle of Durrës (1939)
  Apr 7, 1939 · Albania
• Assassination of Armand Călinescu
  Sep 21, 1939 · Romania
• Cartagena uprising
  Mar 4, 1939–Mar 7, 1939 · Spain
• Skidel revolt
  Sep 19, 1939 · Belarus
• Defense of Katowice
  Sep 3, 1939–Sep 4, 1939 · Poland
• 1939 City of San Francisco derailment
  Aug 12, 1939 · United States
• Intelligenzaktion Pommern
  1939 · Poland
• Katowice massacre
  Sep 4, 1939 · Poland
• Markdorf rail disaster
  Dec 22, 1939 · Germany
• Typhoid Manju Incident
  1939 · Japan
• Crime in Łobżenica
  Jan 1, 1939 · Poland
• 1939 Coventry bombing
  Aug 25, 1939 · United Kingdom
• 1939 Oga earthquake
  May 1, 1939 · Japan
• Szpęgawsk Forest
  Sep 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1940 · Poland
• Gaia Zeret massacre
  Apr 9, 1939–Apr 11, 1939 · Ethiopia
• Takamori Mine staff skiing disaster
  Feb 1, 1939 · Japan
• Japan Airways Kuma-go crash
  May 17, 1939 · Japan
• Szczucin massacre
  Sep 12, 1939 · Poland
• Battle of Przemyśl (1939)
  Sep 11, 1939–Sep 14, 1939 · Poland
• Battle of Husynne
  Sep 24, 1939 · Poland
• Northwest Airlines Flight 1
  Jan 13, 1939 · United States
• Urycz massacre
  Sep 22, 1939 · Ukraine
• Ariostazo
  Aug 25, 1939 · Chile
• Końskie massacre
  Sep 12, 1939 · Poland
• Barbarka massacre
  1939 · Poland
• Zambrów massacre
  Sep 14, 1939 · Poland
• Kladovo transport
  from Nov 25, 1939 · —
• Amko Simko massacre
  Apr 25, 1939 · India
• Sonderaktion Prag
  Nov 16, 1939 · —
• Paul Mooney (writer)
  Mar 24, 1939 · Japan
• Zakroczym massacre
  Sep 28, 1939 · Poland
• Serial pistol robbery case
  Jan 13, 1939 · —
• Bochnia massacre
  Dec 18, 1939 · Poland
• Pomeranian crime 1939
  1939–1940 · Poland
• House of Torment
  Jan 1, 1939 · Poland