Timeline Friday 10 February 1939

Events on Friday 10 February 1939 2

• 1857 – 1939 Pope Pius XI (1857-1939) Died 10 February 1939, aged 81 Achille Ratti was pope from 1922. He signed the Lateran Treaty, which created Vatican City. In 1937 he condemned Nazism in the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge.
• 1939 Japanese occupation of Hainan Japan seizes the island off southern China Japanese forces landed on Hainan and quickly took control of the island. The occupation gave Japan air and naval bases within reach of French Indochina. It alarmed France and Britain.