1489

1489 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1489 MCDLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2242
Armenian calendar	938 ԹՎ ՋԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	6239
Balinese saka calendar	1410–1411
Bengali calendar	895–896
Berber calendar	2439
English Regnal year	4  Hen. 7  – 5  Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2033
Burmese calendar	851
Byzantine calendar	6997–6998
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth  Monkey) 4186 or 3979     — to — 己酉年 (Earth  Rooster) 4187 or 3980
Coptic calendar	1205–1206
Discordian calendar	2655
Ethiopian calendar	1481–1482
Hebrew calendar	5249–5250
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1545–1546
- Shaka Samvat	1410–1411
- Kali Yuga	4589–4590
Holocene calendar	11489
Igbo calendar	489–490
Iranian calendar	867–868
Islamic calendar	894–895
Japanese calendar	Chōkyō 3 / Entoku 1 (延徳元年)
Javanese calendar	1405–1406
Julian calendar	1489 MCDLXXXIX
Korean calendar	3822
Minguo calendar	423 before ROC 民前423年
Nanakshahi calendar	21
Thai solar calendar	2031–2032
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1615 or 1234 or 462     — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1616 or 1235 or 463

Year 1489 ( MCDLXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• March 14 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to the Republic of Venice.
• March 26 – The Treaty of Medina del Campo between England and Spain includes provision for a marriage between Arthur, the son of King Henry VII of England, and Infanta Catherine of Aragon.
• June 29 – King James IV grants Andrew, Lord Gray, the lands and Barony of Lundie in Scotland. ^[1]
• July 17 – Delhi Sultanate: Sikandar Lodi succeeds Bahlul Khan Lodi as sultan.
• November 29 – Arthur Tudor is named Prince of Wales. ^[2]
• December 11 – Jeannetto de Tassis is appointed Chief Master of Postal Services in Innsbruck; his descendants, the Thurn und Taxis Family, later run much of the postal system of Europe.

Date unknown

• Typhus first appears in Europe, during the Siege of Baza in the Granada War.
• A gold coin equal to one pound sterling, called a sovereign , is issued for Henry VII of England.
• King Henry VII of England gives a town charter to the port of Southwold. ^[3]
• Lucas Watzenrode becomes bishop of Warmia.
• Johannes Widmann publishes his mercantile arithmetic Behende und hüpsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft in Leipzig, containing the first printed use of plus and minus signs, to indicate trading surpluses or shortages.

Births

• February 9 – Georg Hartmann, German instrument maker (d. 1564)
• June 2 – Charles, Duke of Vendôme, French noble (d. 1537)
• June 4 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
• June 16 – Sibylle of Bavaria, Electress Palatine consort (d. 1519)
• June 23 – Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Italian sovereign (d. 1496)
• July 2 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556) ^[4]
• August – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (d. 1534)
• August 10 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
• November 10 – Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel 1514–1568 (d. 1568)
• November 28 – Margaret Tudor, Scottish regent, Queen of James IV of Scotland, daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1541) ^[5]
• December 10 – Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (d. 1512)
• date unknown
  • Gerónimo de Aguilar, Spanish Franciscan friar, participant in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (d. 1531)
  • William Farel, French evangelist (d. 1565)
  • Francesco Ferruccio, Florentine captain (k. 1530)
  • Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese warlord (d. 1520)
  • Margareta von Melen, Swedish noblewoman (d. 1541)
  • Tsukahara Bokuden, Japanese swordsman (d. 1571)
• probable
  • Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (d. 1527)
  • Thomas Müntzer, German pastor and rebel leader (d. 1525)

Deaths

• January 3 – Martin Truchseß von Wetzhausen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (b. 1435)
• February 14 – Nicolaus von Tüngen, bishop of Warmia
• March 27 – Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy, Scottish noble (b. 1405)
• April 6 – Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (b. 1416)
• April 26 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1465)
• April 28 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (b. c. 1449)
• May 3 – Stanisław Kazimierczyk, Polish canon regular and saint (b. 1433)
• May 21 – Henry V of Rosenberg, Bohemian nobleman (b. 1456)
• July 12 – Bahlul Lodi, sultan of Delhi ^[6]
• July 19 – Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1424)
• date unknown
  • Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow, Russian bishop
  • María de Ajofrín, Spanish visionary (b. 1455)
  • Girindrawardhana, ruler of Majapahit

References

1. Registrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum - The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland II, Entry 1860.
2. Patrick W. Montague-Smith (1995). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Peerage Limited. p. 141.
3. Mitchell, Laurence (February 28, 2017). Suffolk Coast and Heath Walks: 3 long-distance routes in the AONB: the Suffolk Coast Path, the Stour and Orwell Walk and the Sandlings Walk. Cicerone Press Limited. p. 43. ISBN   978-1-78362-457-7.
4. Alfred W. Pollard (September 14, 2004). Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation, 1489-1556. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 2. ISBN   978-1-59244-865-4.
5. S. Jansen (October 17, 2002). The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 125. ISBN   978-0-230-60211-3.
6. Dr. Sukhdev Singh (2005). The Muslims of Indian Origin: During the Delhi Sultanate : Emergence, Attitudes, and Role, 1192-1526 A.D. Aravali Books International. p. 184. ISBN   978-81-8150-036-6.