1939

The year 1939 AD.
==Events==
* March 2: Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli elected Pope Pius XII
* August 19: Pope Pius XII delivers a tribute to Pope Pius X at Castel Gandolfo, furthering the movement towards Pius X's canonization
* September 1: Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II
* December: United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints a personal envoy to the Holy See, re-establishing a diplomatic tradition that had been broken since 1870 when the pope lost temporal power. 
* Reunification of the northern and southern branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The denomination had split over the issue of slavery in 1845.
==Births and Deaths==
* February 10: Death of Pope Pius XI
* February 27: Birth of Gabriel Cardinal Zubeir Wako of the Sudan, Archbishop of Khartoum 
==See also==
20th century
Category:20th century