Saint Joseph, Abbot of Volokolamsk ( 1439 – 1515 ), wrote a number of influential works against heresy, and about monastic and liturgical discipline, and Christian philanthropy.

* Albert II of Germany ( 1397 – 1439 ), King of Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, Duke of Austria

Cam., also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli, ( 1386 – October 20, 1439 ) was an Italian monk and theologian, who was a prime supporter of the papal cause in the 15th century.

* 1397 – Albert II of Germany ( d. 1439 )

Basel became the focal point of western Christendom during the 15th century Council of Basel ( 1431 – 1449 ), including the 1439 election of antipope Felix V.

* Kings of Bohemia ( 1306 – 1307, 1437 – 1439, 1453 – 1457, 1526 – 1918 ),

Henry also promoted the colonization of the Azores during Peter's regency ( 1439 – 1448 ).

* Francesco di Giorgio Martini ( 1439 – 1502 ), Italian painter, sculptor, architect and military engineer

* St George and the Dragon ( c. 1439 – 1440 ) -

Pope Pius III ( 29 May 1439 – 18 October 1503 ), born Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, was Pope from 22 September to 18 October 1503.

His early career was spent as a professor of law at the University of Lleida and then as a diplomat in the service of the Kings of Aragon, especially during the Council of Basel ( 1431 – 1439 ).

* Sigismund of Bavaria ( 1439 – 1501 ), a Duke of Bavaria

* Sigismund of Bavaria ( 1439 – 1501 ), Duke of Bavaria

* Eitel Frederick I ( 1426 – 1439 )

* Jobst Nikolaus I ( 1439 – 1488 )

* Johannes Gutenberg ( – 1468 ) was a German goldsmith and printer who is credited with inventing movable type printing in Europe around 1439, and mechanical printing globally.

* February 10 – Gabriel Schlesinger, Irish writer and poet ( died 1439 )

* October 18 – Pope Pius III ( b. 1439 )

* January 23 – Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick ( d. 1439 )

Albert the Magnanimous KG ( 10 August 1397 – 27 October 1439 ) was King of Hungary from 1437 until his death.

* February 1 – Sigismund of Bavaria ( b. 1439 )

Margaret Holland, Countess of Somerset ( 1385 – 31 December 1439 ) was the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, who was the son of Joan " the Fair Maid of Kent " ( granddaughter of Edward I of England, wife of Edward the Black Prince and mother of Richard II of England ).

She died on 31 December 1439 at St. Saviour's Abbey, Bermondsey, in London, England.

His term of office was nevertheless extended beyond the original twelve months, and he returned to England in November 1439.

Charles is also a major character in Margaret Frazer's The Maiden's Tale, a historical mystery which gives a very sympathetic fictional account of a few weeks of his life in England in the autumn of 1439, shortly before his release in 1440.

In 1435 he was appointed admiral of England, Ireland, and Aquitaine, and in 1439 he was made the king's lieutenant in Aquitaine, and later governor of Aquitaine.

She served as her husband's representative in negotiations with England regarding trade relations in 1439 and those with the rebellious cities of Holland in 1444.

Usually known as the Drapers ' Company, The Master and Wardens and Brethren and Sisters of the Guild or Fraternity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin of the Mystery of Drapers of the City of London was probably the first corporate body in England to be granted a coat of arms, on 10 March 1439.

* 1439: Johannes Gutenberg invents first printing press starting the Printing Revolution

Around 1439, Johannes Gutenberg, a citizen of Mainz, was the first European to use movable type printing and became the global inventor of the printing press, thereby starting the Printing Revolution.

Gutenberg was the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439.

The Council of Basel first suspended him, declared him a heretic, and then in November 1439 elected an antipope, Felix V. The rival Council of Florence ( moved to avoid plague in Ferrara ) concluded in 1445 after negotiating unions with the various eastern churches.

From 1437 to 1439 the King's first cousin Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, headed the government as lieutenant-general of the realm.

The Venice Library was lost in 1485 during the collapse of the abbey's bell tower, but following the invention of movable type printing by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439, the rotting books had been saved in their entirety by making their first typeset copy " of about 1, 000 volumes ", with each typeset book containing 10 manuscripts.

As Eric's nephew, Christopher, who was rather unfamiliar with Scandinavian conditions, was elected by the Danish State Council as the successor to his uncle, first as regent from 1439, and then proclaimed King of Denmark at the Viborg Assembly ( Danish landsting ) on 9 April 1440.

The first and third panels were signed, and the first dated 1439.

Lorenzo Valla, an Italian Catholic priest and Renaissance humanist, is credited with first exposing the forgery with solid philological arguments in 1439 – 1440, although the document's authenticity had already been repeatedly contested since 1001.

* Margaret Holland ( 1385 – 31 December 1439 ), married first John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and second Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence

The first corporate coat-of-arms was granted in 1439 to the Drapers ' Company in London with three triple crowns.

Its name first appears in documents in 1439 as Riki.

Prior to becoming king, Robert II was held here in 1369, as was Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas ( d. 1439 ) in the first half of the 15th century.

In 1439 the first official discovery document appeared attributing the discovery of the Formigas islets, to Gonçalo Velho Cabral.

In the fourteenth century the Ottoman Empire began to expand into the Balkans, with the Ottoman presence in Vučitrn first recorded in 1439, 50 years after the 1389 Battle of Kosovo signaled the entrance of the Ottomans to Kosovo.

Its first settlement began in 1439, with the occupation of Praia dos Lobos ( in the northern coast around Anjos ).

That territory was held by a branch line of the Zähringen dynasty from 1187 to 1439, known historically as the first House of Teck.

The first references to the settlement of the Azores date to between 1439 and 1449, through the donation of Henry the Navigator the colonization of seven islands in the central and eastern groups of the archipelago.

It is unclear when the first explorers discovered the island of São Jorge ; as part of the politics of human occupation, the Azores were populated after 1430 ( probably 1439 ) through the initiative of Prince Henry the Navigator.

The first reference to São Jorge was in 1439, but it wasn't until 1470, when colonial nuclei dotted the southern and western coast: the first of these colonists were believed to have come from northern Europe.

It is a decree during the age of minority of that monarch ( Afonso V ), dated 2 od July 1439, where the Infante D. Henrique is authorized to send to the first seven islands of the Azores, at the time discovered, the first families, when years before there were scattered some head of cattle.