1489
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{{C15 year in topic}}Year 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.Registrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum - The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland II, Entry 1860.
- July 17 – Delhi Sultanate: Sikandar Lodi succeeds Bahlul Khan Lodi as sultan.
- November 29 – Arthur Tudor is named Prince of Wales.{{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}}
- 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.{{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.
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){{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}}
- 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){{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}}
- 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)
- probable
- 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{{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}}
- 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