< MCXXXIX = 1139 >
Events in 1139
|23 March:|| ||Jews celebrate Pesach for the next seven or eight days.|
|23 April:|| ||The resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated Easter Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox as described by the Council of Nicaea in 325.|
|2 May:|| ||The thirty days of Ramadan in the Islamic year 533 begin at the first sighting of the lunar crescent.|
|1 June:|| ||Muslims celebrate the Conclusion of the Fast on the first day of the month Shawwal.|
|11 June:|| ||Seven weeks after Easter Christians celebrate Pentecost, possibly since 68 AD.|
|25 July:|| ||Prince Afonso Henriques of the House of Burgundy defeats the Almoravid Moors led by Ali ibn Yusuf at the Battle of Ourique, being crowned the first king of Portugal by his army the next day.|
|26 July:|| ||Afonso Henriques is proclaimed the first king of Portugal after defeating the Moors at the Battle of Ourique the previous day.|
|8 Augustus:|| ||Muslims celebrate the Festival of Sacrifice on the tenth day of the month Dhu al-Hijjah.|
|13 September:|| ||Jews celebrate Yom Kippur since sunset last night.|
People in 1139
Peter Abelard and Afonso Henriques celebrated their birthday this year.
The year 1139 was a common year starting on a Sunday, just like 1049, 1055, 1066, 1077, 1083, 1094, 1100, 1105, 1111, 1122 and 1133 in the century before it and 1150, 1161, 1167, 1178, 1189, 1195, 1206, 1217, 1223 and 1234 in the next.
The coloured days highlight
other historical milestones, and recurring events such as anniversaries and
icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2017 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.
URL: < http://4umi.com/year?1139 >, created 23 January 2011, changed 13 September 2012, served 25 March 2017.