Editing 1489

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1489''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXXIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[March 14]] &ndash; The Queen of [[Cyprus]], [[Catherine Cornaro]], sells her kingdom to the [[Republic of Venice]].
* [[March 26]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Medina del Campo (1489)|Treaty of Medina del Campo]] between [[Kingdom of England|England]] and Spain includes provision for a marriage between [[Arthur, Prince of Wales|Arthur]], the son of King [[Henry VII of England]], and Infanta [[Catherine of Aragon]].
*[[June 29]] &ndash; [[James IV of Scotland|King James IV]] grants Andrew, Lord Gray, the lands and [[Barony of Lundie]] in Scotland.<ref>Registrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum - The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland II, Entry 1860.</ref>
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Delhi Sultanate]]: [[Sikandar Lodi]] succeeds [[Bahlul Khan Lodi]] as sultan.
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[Arthur, Prince of Wales|Arthur Tudor]] is named [[Prince of Wales]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Patrick W. Montague-Smith|title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXE-AQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Debrett's Peerage Limited|page=141}}</ref>
* [[December 11]] &ndash; 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 [[Granada War#Siege of Baza|Siege of Baza]] in the Granada War.
* A [[gold coin]] equal to one [[pound sterling]], called a ''[[Sovereign (English coin)|sovereign]]'', is issued for [[Henry VII of England]].
* King [[Henry VII of England]] gives a town charter to the port of [[Southwold]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=Laurence |title=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 |date=February 28, 2017 |publisher=Cicerone Press Limited |isbn=978-1-78362-457-7 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_G3-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA43 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Lucas Watzenrode]] becomes [[bishop]] of [[Warmia]].
* [[Johannes Widmann]] publishes his mercantile arithmetic {{Lang|de|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.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Georg Hartmann]], German instrument maker (d. [[1564]])
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Charles, Duke of Vendôme]], French noble (d. [[1537]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Antoine, Duke of Lorraine]] (d. [[1544]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Sibylle of Bavaria]], Electress Palatine consort (d. [[1519]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Charles II, Duke of Savoy]], Italian sovereign (d. [[1496]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Thomas Cranmer]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1556]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alfred W. Pollard|title=Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation, 1489-1556|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0C1LAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|date=14 September 2004|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|isbn=978-1-59244-865-4|pages=2}}</ref>
* August &ndash; [[Antonio da Correggio]], Italian painter (d. [[1534]])
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck]], German statesman and reformer (d. [[1553]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] and Prince of Wolfenbüttel 1514–1568 (d. [[1568]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Margaret Tudor]], Scottish regent, Queen of [[James IV of Scotland]], daughter of [[Henry VII of England]] (d. [[1541]])<ref>{{cite book|author=S. Jansen|title=The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fF6IDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125|date=17 October 2002|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-0-230-60211-3|pages=125}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours]] (d. [[1512]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Gerónimo de Aguilar]], [[Spaniards|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]] &ndash; [[Martin Truchseß von Wetzhausen]], Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (b. [[1435]])
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus von Tüngen]], bishop of Warmia 
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy]], Scottish noble (b. [[1405]])
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Jodha of Mandore]], Ruler of Marwar (b. [[1416]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Ashikaga Yoshihisa]], Japanese shōgun (b. [[1465]])
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland]] (b. c. [[1449]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Stanisław Kazimierczyk]], Polish canon regular and saint (b. [[1433]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Henry V of Rosenberg]], Bohemian nobleman (b. [[1456]])
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Bahlul Lodi]], sultan of Delhi<ref>{{cite book|author=Dr. Sukhdev Singh|title=The Muslims of Indian Origin: During the Delhi Sultanate : Emergence, Attitudes, and Role, 1192-1526 A.D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FgRuAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Aravali Books International|isbn=978-81-8150-036-6|page=184}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[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

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