1189

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
Decades:	1160s 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s
Years:	1186 1187 1188 1189 1190 1191 1192

1189 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1189 MCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1942
Armenian calendar	638 ԹՎ ՈԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	5939
Balinese saka calendar	1110–1111
Bengali calendar	596
Berber calendar	2139
English Regnal year	35 Hen. 2 – 1 Ric. 1
Buddhist calendar	1733
Burmese calendar	551
Byzantine calendar	6697–6698
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3886 or 3679     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3887 or 3680
Coptic calendar	905–906
Discordian calendar	2355
Ethiopian calendar	1181–1182
Hebrew calendar	4949–4950
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1245–1246
- Shaka Samvat	1110–1111
- Kali Yuga	4289–4290
Holocene calendar	11189
Igbo calendar	189–190
Iranian calendar	567–568
Islamic calendar	584–585
Japanese calendar	Bunji 5 (文治５年)
Javanese calendar	1096–1097
Julian calendar	1189 MCLXXXIX
Korean calendar	3522
Minguo calendar	723 before ROC 民前723年
Nanakshahi calendar	−279
Seleucid era	1500/1501 AG
Thai solar calendar	1731–1732
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1315 or 934 or 162     — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1316 or 935 or 163

Year 1189 (MCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In English law, 1189 - specifically the beginning of the reign of Richard I - is considered the end of time immemorial.

Events

By place

Asia

• February 18 – Emperor Xiaozong abdicates to Emperor Guangzong.
• The siege of Acre begins.
• The Crusader castles of Montreal and Kerak are captured by Saladin.

Europe

• January 21 – Philip II of France and Henry II of England begin assembling troops, to wage the Third Crusade.
• July 27 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade.
• August 29 – Ban Kulin writes The Charter of Kulin, which becomes a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian language and statehood.
• Henry II of England ends a war against Philip II of France & Richard, by agreeing to their terms: he pays Philip 20,000 marks, and recognizes Richard as the heir to the English throne. Henry is brokenhearted to find that his second heir, John, had also allied against him in the war. He dies within a few months.
• September 3 – Richard I is crowned as King of England. He immediately begins selling castles, lordships, privileges, and towns to fund his long-anticipated crusade against Saladin.
• The town of Dundalk, Ireland gains its charter.
• Sancho I of Portugal conquers Silves and Alvor, with the help of the troops of the Third Crusade.
• Henry Fitz Ailwyn is elected Mayor of the City of London (inside of London, England).
• Sicilian nobles elect bastard Tancred, Count of Lecce their new king, instead of the designated heiress Princess Constance and her husband Prince Henry of the Holy Roman Empire, to avoid German rule.

Births

• Peter Nolasco, French religious leader and saint (d. 1256)
• Yuri II, grand prince of Vladimir (d. 1238)
• probable – Skule Bårdsson, Norwegian nobleman (d. 1240)

Deaths

• January 1 – Henry of Marcy, French Cistercian abbot (b. c. 1136)
• January 20 – Emperor Shizong of Jin (b. 1123)
• March 25 – Frederick, Duke of Bohemia
• June 15 – Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
• June 28 – Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (b. 1156)
• July 6 – King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
• August 20 or August 21 – Geoffrey Ridel, Lord Chancellor of England
• September 3 – Jacob of Orléans, French Jewish scholar
• October 4 – Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• November 11 – King William II of Sicily ("the Good") (b. 1153)
• November 14 – William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
• Anvari, Persian poet (b. 1126)
• Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht
• Folmar, Archbishop of Trier (b. c. 1135)
• Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland
• Saito Musashibo Benkei, Japanese fighting monk (b. 1155)