1589

This article is about the year 1589.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1589 in other calendars

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)
Korean calendar	3922
Minguo calendar	323 before ROC 民前323年
Thai solar calendar	2132

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.

Events

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.

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.

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.

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)

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)