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| 1939 |
| | | British author Christopher Isherwood publishes his novel Goodbye to Berlin, based on his own experiences in the city | |
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| 1939 |
| | | British pianist Myra Hess begins a wartime series of lunchtime concerts in London's National Gallery | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Igor Stravinsky moves to the USA from Paris, his home for nearly 30 years, and settles in Hollywood | |
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| 1939 |
| | | John Ford directs John Wayne in the film Stagecoach | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Joaquin Rodrigo's concerto for guitar and orchestra, the Concierto de Aranjuez, has its first performance in Barcelona | |
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| 1939 |
| | | US crime-writer Raymond Chandler publishes his first novel, The Big Sleep, introducing the hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe | |
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| 1939 |
| | | The US jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker acquires the nickname 'Yardbird', or simply 'Bird' | |
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| 1939 February 2 |
| | | De Valera declares that Eire will be neutral in any forthcoming European war | |
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| 1939 March |
| | | Hungary aligns itself with the Axis powers, signing Germany and Japan's Anti-Comintern Pact | |
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| 1939 March 15 |
| | | Hitler's armies smash their way into Czechoslovakia and enter Prague, against all his previous promises | |
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