1489

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:More citations needed Template:Year nav Template:C15 year in topicYear 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.<ref>Registrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum - The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland II, Entry 1860.</ref>
• July 17 – Delhi Sultanate: Sikandar Lodi succeeds Bahlul Khan Lodi as sultan.
• November 29 – Arthur Tudor is named Prince of Wales.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Lucas Watzenrode becomes bishop of Warmia.
• Johannes Widmann publishes his mercantile arithmetic Template:Lang 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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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)
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  • 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<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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