Year 1489 ( MCDLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the

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Events

January–December

March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the H ...

– The Queen of

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, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to the

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. * March 26 – The Treaty of Medina del Campo between

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and Spain includes provision for a marriage between

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, the son of King

Henry VII of England Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509), also known as Henry Tudor, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor. Henr ...

, and Infanta

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. *

June 29 Events Pre-1600 * 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of Wei. * 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. * 1170 – A major earthquake hits Syria, badly damagi ...

– King James IV grants Andrew, Lord Gray, the lands and Barony of Lundie in Scotland. * July 17 –

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: Sikandar Lodi succeeds Bahlul Khan Lodi as sultan. * November 29 – Arthur Tudor is named

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. * December 11 – Jeannetto de Tassis is appointed Chief Master of Postal Services in

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; his descendants, the Thurn und Taxis Family, later run much of the postal system of Europe.

Date unknown

* Typhus first appears in Europe, during the Siege of Baza in the Granada War. * A gold coin equal to one

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, called a ''

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'', is issued for

. * King

gives a town charter to the port of Southwold. * Lucas Watzenrode becomes

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of Warmia. * Johannes Widmann publishes his mercantile arithmetic in

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, containing the first printed use of

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, to indicate trading surpluses or shortages.

Births

February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno (emperor), Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire *1003 – Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia, Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I ...

– Georg Hartmann, German instrument maker (d. 1564) * June 2 – Charles, Duke of Vendôme, French noble (d. 1537) * June 4 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d.

1544 __NOTOC__ Events January–March * January 4 – In India, Maldeo Rathore, King of Marwar (now part of the state of Rajasthan) is tricked by counterintelligence spread by Mughal Empire, Mughal Emperor and Afghan Shah Sher Shah Su ...

) * June 16 – Sibylle of Bavaria, Electress Palatine consort (d. 1519) * June 23 – Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Italian sovereign (d. 1496) * July 2 –

Thomas Cranmer Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a theologian, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He is honoured as a Oxford Martyrs, martyr ...

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(d. 1556) * August – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (d. 1534) * August 10 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553) * November 10 – Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel 1514–1568 (d.

1568 Year 1568 ( MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 6 – In the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, the delegates of Unio Trium Nationum to the Diet of Torda convene i ...

) * November 28 –

Margaret Tudor Margaret Tudor (28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541) was List of Scottish royal consorts, Queen of Scotland from 1503 until 1513 by marriage to King James IV. She then served as regent of Scotland during her son's minority, and fought to exte ...

, Scottish regent, Queen of James IV of Scotland, daughter of

(d. 1541) * December 10 – Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (d.

1512 Year 1512 (Roman numerals, MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 2 – Svante Nilsson (regent of Sweden), Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden since 1504, dies at the a ...

) * ''date unknown'' ** Gerónimo de Aguilar, Spanish

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friar, participant in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (d. 1531) ** William Farel, French evangelist (d. 1565) ** Francesco Ferruccio, Florentine captain (k. 1530) ** Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese warlord (d. 1520) ** Margareta von Melen, Swedish noblewoman (d. 1541) ** Tsukahara Bokuden, Japanese swordsman (d. 1571) * ''probable'' ** Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (d. 1527) ** Thomas Müntzer, German pastor and rebel leader (d. 1525)

Deaths

January 3 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor. * 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...

– Martin Truchseß von Wetzhausen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (b. 1435) *

February 14 It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day. Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution#Persian phase, Abbasid Revolution: The Kaysanites Shia#History, Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad ...

– Nicolaus von Tüngen, bishop of Warmia * March 27 – Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy, Scottish noble (b. 1405) * April 6 – Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (b. 1416) * April 26 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1465) * April 28 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (b. c. 1449) * May 3 – Stanisław Kazimierczyk, Polish canon regular and saint (b. 1433) * May 21 – Henry V of Rosenberg, Bohemian nobleman (b. 1456) * July 12 – Bahlul Lodi, sultan of Delhi * July 19 – Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1424) * ''date unknown'' ** Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow, Russian bishop ** María de Ajofrín, Spanish visionary (b. 1455) ** Girindrawardhana, ruler of Majapahit

References

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