1489

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year 1489 (MCDLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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  • 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.{{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}}
  • 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.

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