1489

This article is about the year 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 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1489 in poetry

1489 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1489 MCDLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2242
Armenian calendar	938 ԹՎ ՋԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	6239
Bahá'í calendar	-355–-354
Bengali calendar	896
Berber calendar	2439
English Regnal year	4 Hen. 7 – 5 Hen. 7
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
- Vikram Samvat	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
Minguo calendar	423 before ROC 民前423年
Thai solar calendar	2032

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

Events

January–December

• 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.
• July 17 – Delhi: Sikander Lodi succeeds Bahlul Khan Lodi as sultan.
• 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.

Date unknown

• A gold coin equal to one pound sterling, 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.

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, daughter of Henry VII of England (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
• 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
  • Bahlul Khan Lodhi, sultan of Delhi