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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 15th century16th century17th century
Decades: 1500s  1510s  1520s  – 1530s –  1540s  1550s  1560s
Years: 1536 1537 153815391540 1541 1542
1539 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1539
MDXXXIX
Ab urbe condita2292
Armenian calendar988
ԹՎ ՋՁԸ
Assyrian calendar6289
Balinese saka calendar1460–1461
Bengali calendar946
Berber calendar2489
English Regnal year30 Hen. 8 – 31 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2083
Burmese calendar901
Byzantine calendar7047–7048
Chinese calendar戊戌(Earth Dog)
4235 or 4175
    — to —
己亥年 (Earth Pig)
4236 or 4176
Coptic calendar1255–1256
Discordian calendar2705
Ethiopian calendar1531–1532
Hebrew calendar5299–5300
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1595–1596
 - Shaka Samvat1460–1461
 - Kali Yuga4639–4640
Holocene calendar11539
Igbo calendar539–540
Iranian calendar917–918
Islamic calendar945–946
Japanese calendarTenbun 8
(天文8年)
Javanese calendar1457–1458
Julian calendar1539
MDXXXIX
Korean calendar3872
Minguo calendar373 before ROC
民前373年
Nanakshahi calendar71
Thai solar calendar2081–2082
Tibetan calendar阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
1665 or 1284 or 512
    — to —
阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
1666 or 1285 or 513

1539 (MDXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1539th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 539th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 16th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1530s decade. As of the start of 1539, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.