1589
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This article is about the year 1589.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1550s 1560s 1570s – 1580s – 1590s 1600s 1610s |
| Years: | 1586 1587 1588 – 1589 – 1590 1591 1592 |
| 1589 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1589 MDLXXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2342 |
| Armenian calendar | 1038 ԹՎ ՌԼԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6339 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -255–-254 |
| Bengali calendar | 996 |
| Berber calendar | 2539 |
| English Regnal year | 31 Eliz. 1 – 32 Eliz. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2133 |
| Burmese calendar | 951 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7097–7098 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊子年十一月十五日 (4225/4285-11-15) — to —
己丑年十一月廿四日(4226/4286-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 1305–1306 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1581–1582 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5349–5350 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1645–1646 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1511–1512 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4690–4691 |
| Holocene calendar | 11589 |
| Iranian calendar | 967–968 |
| Islamic calendar | 997–998 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 17 (天正17年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3922 |
| Minguo calendar | 323 before ROC 民前323年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2132 |
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Year 1589 (MDLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- January 26 – Job is elected as the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
- February 26 – Valkendorfs Kollegium is founded in Copenhagen, Denmark.
[edit] July–December
- August – King James VI of Scotland, the future James I of England, marries Anne of Denmark.
- August 2 – Henry III of France is murdered by a fanatical Catholic monk. Henry of Navarre proclaims himself as King Henry IV of France. As many of the late King's troops refuse to support a Protestant, Henry is forced to give up the siege of Paris.
- September 21 – Battle of Arques: King Henry's forces defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne (younger brother of Henry I, Duke of Guise).
- November 1 – Henry IV of France is repulsed in an attempt to capture Paris from the Catholic League.
[edit] Date unknown
- The Catholic League rebels against King Henry III of France, in revenge for his murder of Henry I, Duke of Guise. They proclaim the deposition of the King, and acclaim the imprisoned Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon as the rightful King of France, calling him Charles X. The King makes peace with his old rival, Henry of Navarre, and together they besiege Paris.
- San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, is completed by Domenico Fontana.
- Hiroshima, Japan is founded.
- The monks of the Pechenga Monastery, the northernmost in the world, are massacred by the Swedes.
[edit] Births
- January 9 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
- February 5 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
- March 3 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (d. 1676)
- July 16 – Sinibaldo Scorza, painter (d. 1631)
- October 7 – Maria Magdalena of Austria (d. 1631)
- date unknown
- Tsar Feodor II of Russia
- Yönten Gyatso, 4th Dalai Lama
- John Bankes, Attorney General and Chief Justice to King Charles I of England (d. 1644)
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 – Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519)
- March 2 – Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (b. 1530)
- May 3 – Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1528)
- August 1 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
- August 2 – King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
- September 16 – Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
- October 15 – Jacopo Zabarella, philosopher (b. 1532)
- date unknown
- Pietro de' Mariscalchi, painter (b. c. 1520)
- Tansen, Indian musician (b. 1506)
