1489

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1450s  1460s  1470s  – 1480s –  1490s  1500s  1510s
Years:	1486 1487 1488 – 1489 – 1490 1491 1492

1489 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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

Contents 1 Events of 1489 2 Undated 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events of 1489

• March 14 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to 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 Princess Catherine of Aragon.
• November 29 – Arthur Tudor is named Prince of Wales.
• December 11 – Jeannetto de Tassis is appointed Chief Master of Postal Services in Innsbruck; his descendants, the Thurn and Taxis family, later run much of the postal system of Europe.

Undated

• The Great British pound, called a sovereign, is issued for Henry VII of England.
• Typhus sweeps through Spain, in its first appearance in Europe.
• Nicosia, Cyprus, becomes a possession of Venice.
• King Henry VII gives a city charter to Southwold.
• Lucas Watzenrode becomes bishop of Warmia.
• India,Delhi: Sikander lodi succeeds Bahlol Khan lodi.He conquers Jaunpur and other places.

1489 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1489 MCDLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2242
Armenian calendar	938 ԹՎ ՋԼԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-355 – -354
Bengali calendar	896
Berber calendar	2439
Buddhist calendar	2033
Burmese calendar	851
Byzantine calendar	6997 – 6998
Chinese calendar	戊申年十一月三十日 (4125/4185-11-30) — to — 己酉年十二月初十日 (4126/4186-12-10)
Coptic calendar	1205 – 1206
Ethiopian calendar	1481 – 1482
Hebrew calendar	5249 – 5250
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1545 – 1546
- Shaka Samvat	1411 – 1412
- Kali Yuga	4590 – 4591
Holocene calendar	11489
Iranian calendar	867 – 868
Islamic calendar	894 – 895
Japanese calendar	Chōkyō 3Entoku 1 (延徳元年)
Korean calendar	3822
Thai solar calendar	2032

Births

• April 15 – Mimar Sinan, Turkish architect (d. 1588)
• June 4 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
• July 2 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
• August 10 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
• November 28 – Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland) (d. 1541)
• August – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (d. 1534)
• date unknown
  • William Farel, French evangelist (d. 1565)
  • Francesco Ferruccio, Florentine captain (d. 1530)
  • Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese warlord (d. 1520)
  • Tsukahara Bokuden, Japanese swordsman (d. 1571)
• probable
  • Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (d. 1527)
  • Thomas Muentzer, 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 (d.o.b. unknown)
• April 26 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
• April 28 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (b. c. 1449)
• July 19 – Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1424)
• date unknown
  • Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow, bishop (d.o.b. unknown)
  • Bahlul Khan Lodhi, sultan of Delhi (d.o.b. unknown)