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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1589 MDLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2342
Armenian calendar	1038 ԹՎ ՌԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	6339
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 (Earth Rat) 4285 or 4225     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4286 or 4226
Coptic calendar	1305–1306
Discordian calendar	2755
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
Igbo calendar	589–590
Iranian calendar	967–968
Islamic calendar	997–998
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 17 (天正１７年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3922
Minguo calendar	323 before ROC 民前323年
Thai solar calendar	2131–2132

1589 (MDLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Julian calendar, the 1589th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 589th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 16th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1580s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1589 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• War of the Three Henrys: In France, the Catholic League is in rebellion against King Henry III, in revenge for his murder of Henry I, Duke of Guise in December 1588. The King makes peace with his old rival, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre, his designated successor, and together they besiege Paris.
• January 26 – Job is elected as the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
• February 26 – Valkendorfs Kollegium is founded in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• April 13 – An English Armada led by Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys and largely financed by private investors sets sail to attack the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast but fails to achieve any naval advantage.

July–December

• August 1 – King Henry III of France is stabbed by the fanatical Dominican friar Jacques Clément (who is immediately killed).
• August 2 – Henry III of France dies. His army is thrown into confusion and an intended attack to retake Paris is abandoned. Henry of Navarre succeeds to the throne as King Henry IV of France but is not recognized by the Catholic League who acclaim the imprisoned Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, as the rightful King of France, Charles X.
• August 20 – King James VI of Scotland, the future James I of England, contracts a proxy marriage with the 14-year-old Anne of Denmark at Kronborg. The formal ceremony takes place on November 23 at the Old Bishop's Palace in Oslo.
• September 21 – Battle of Arques: King Henry IV of France's forces defeat those 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.
• December 25 (Christmas Day) – The monks of the Pechenga Monastery, the northernmost in the world, are massacred by Swedes led by a Finnish peasant chief in the course of the Russo-Swedish War.

Date unknown

• San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, is completed by Domenico Fontana.
• Hiroshima is founded by the Japanese warlord Mōri Terumoto.
• The Hofbräuhaus is founded by William V, Duke of Bavaria in Munich.

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)
• September 17 – Agostinho Barbosa, Portuguese bishop in Italy and writer on canon law (d. 1649).
• 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)
• July 1 — Lady Saigō, Japanese concubine (b. 1552)
• 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)