1489

This article is about the year 1489. For the number, see 1489 (number).

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

Events

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 Sultanate: Sikandar 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 und Taxis family, later run much of the postal system of Europe.

Typhus first appears in Europe during the siege of Granada.
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 city charter to Southwold.
Lucas Watzenrode becomes bishop of Warmia.
Johannes Widmann publishes his mercantile arithmetic 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.

February 9 – Georg Hartmann, Instrument maker (d. 1564)
April 15 – Mimar Sinan, Turkish architect (d. 1588)
June 2 – Charles, Duke of Vendôme, French noble (d. 1537)
June 4 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
June 16 – Sibylle of Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria-Munich by birth and by marriage Electress Palatine (d. 1519)
June 23 – Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Italian noble (d. 1496)
July 2 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
August – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (d. 1534)
August 10 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
October 24 – Raymund Fugger, German businessman (d. 1535)
November 10 – Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel (1514–1568) (d. 1568)
November 28 – Margaret Tudor, Queen of James IV of Scotland, daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1541)
December 10 – Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (d. 1512)
date unknown
- Gerónimo de Aguilar, Franciscan friar who participated in the Spanish conquest of Mexico (d. 1531)
- 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 Müntzer, German pastor and rebel leader (d. 1525)