Editing 1589 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 5]] &ndash; The reign of [[Catherine de' Medici]] as Countess of Auvergne ends after 64 years and she is succeeded by her grandson, [[Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême|Charles de Valois]].
* [[January 7]] &ndash; The [[College of Sorbonne]] votes a resolution that it is just and necessary to depose King Henry III of France, and that any private citizen is morally free to commit [[regicide]].<ref>Robert J. Knecht, ''The French Wars of Religion 1559–1598'' (Routledge, 1996) p.72</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; The French city of [[Chartres]] closes its gates to King Henry III and subsequently recognizes 65-year-old [[Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon (born 1523)|Charles I, Cardinal de Bourbon]] as King Charles X. 
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Patriarch Job of Moscow|Job of Moscow]] is elected as the first [[Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia]].
* [[February 6]] &ndash; King Philip of Portugal issues an order to the Viceroy in Portuguese India (Goa) for the arrest of explorer [[João da Gama]], but da Gama continues toward Mexico without being aware of the order.
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Valkendorfs Kollegium]] is founded in [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]].
* [[March 6]]
**[[Ralph Fitch]] becomes the first known person from England to set foot on the island of Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) and stays five days.<ref>[https://www.sundaytimes.lk/110306/Plus/plus_11.html "Visions of an Island: Real and unreal", by Richard Boyle, ''The Sunday Times'' (Colombo, Sri Lanka), March 6, 2011]</ref> 
**The [[Admiralty of the Noorderkwartier]] is set up as the third of the [[Dutch admiralties|five admiralties]] in the [[Dutch Republic]].
* [[March 8]] &ndash; England prohibits the construction of a cottage on any property that isn't at least four acres in size, with the passage of the [[Erection of Cottages Act 1588]].<ref>L.F.C. Harrison, ''The Common People, a History from the Norman Conquest to the Present'' (Fontana, 1989)</ref>
* [[March 9]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Bytom and Będzin]] is signed between the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and Austria, ending the [[War of the Polish Succession (1587–1588)|War of the Polish Succession]]. [[Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria]], renounces his claims to the thrones of Poland and Lithuania and acknowledges [[Sigismund III Vasa]] of Sweden as the heir to the throne.<ref>Sławomir Leśniewski, ''Jan Zamoyski – Hetman i Polityk'' (Bellona, 2008) p.117</ref>