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

Events of 1489

• 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.
• 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 and Taxis family, later run much of the postal system of Europe.

Undated

• The Great British pound, called a sovereign, is issued for Henry VII of England.
• Typhus sweeps through Spain, in its first appearance in Europe.
• Nicosia, Cyprus, becomes a possession of Venice.
• King Henry VII gives a city charter to Southwold.
• Lucas Watzenrode becomes bishop of Warmia.
• India,Delhi: Sikander lodi succeeds Bahlol Khan lodi.He conquers Jaunpur and other places.

Births

• April 15 – Mimar Sinan, Turkish architect (d. 1588)
• June 4 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
• July 2 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
• August 10 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
• November 28 – Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland) (d. 1541)
• August – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (d. 1534)
• date unknown
  • 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 Muentzer, German pastor and rebel leader (d. 1525)

Deaths

• January 3 – Martin Truchsess von Wetzhausen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (b. 1435)
• February 14 – Nicolaus von Tüngen, bishop (d.o.b. unknown)
• April 26 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
• April 28 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (b. c. 1449)
• July 19 – Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1424)
• date unknown
  • Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow, bishop (d.o.b. unknown)
  • Bahlul Khan Lodhi, sultan of Delhi (d.o.b. unknown)

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