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^[1] 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–June

Domenico Fiasella born 12 August

Ulrich, Duke of Pomerania born 12 August

Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria born 7 October

• January 9 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
• January 11 – William Strode, English politician (d. 1666)
• January 28 – Francisco Ximénez de Urrea, Spanish historian (d. 1647)
• February 5
  • Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (d. 1670)
  • Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
• February 7 – Jacob de Witt, Mayor of Dordrecht (d. 1674)
• February 8 – Peter Melander Graf von Holzappel, Protestant military leader in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1648)
• February 18
  • Henry Vane the Elder, English politician (d. 1655)
  • Maarten Gerritsz Vries, Dutch explorer (d. 1646)
• March 1 – Thomas Middleton, English politician (d. 1662)
• March 3 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (d. 1676)
• March 18 – Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, English noble (d. 1624)
• April 16 – Nicolaes le Febure, Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij (d. 1641)
• April 17 – Martin Zeiler, German author (d. 1661)
• April 18 – John, Duke of Östergötland, Swedish prince (d. 1618)
• April 20 – John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, son of John I (d. 1652)
• April 28 – Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal (d. 1655)
• May 12 – François L’Anglois, French artist (d. 1647)
• May 28 – Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (d. 1674)
• June 9 – John of St. Thomas, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1644)
• June 16 – Albrycht Władysław Radziwiłł, Polish prince (d. 1636)
• June 20 – Giambattista Altieri, Catholic cardinal (d. 1654)

July–December

• July 2 – Richard Pepys, English politician (d. 1659)
• July 3 – Johann Georg Wirsung, German anatolist (d. 1643)
• July 15 – Cornelis Bol, Flemish painter and etcher (d. 1666)
• July 16 – Sinibaldo Scorza, Italian painter (d. 1631)
• August 8 – Framlingham Gawdy, English politician (d. 1654)
• August 12
  • Domenico Fiasella, Italian painter (d. 1669)
  • Ulrich, Duke of Pomerania, Bishop of Cammin (d. 1622)
• August 15 – Gabriel Báthory (d. 1613)
• September 1 – Giovanni Pesaro, Doge of Venice (d. 1658)
• September 7 – August of Saxony, German prince (d. 1615)
• September 17 – Agostinho Barbosa, Portuguese bishop in Italy and writer on canon law (d. 1649)
• October 7
  • Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1631)
  • Maria Magdalena of Austria (d. 1631)
• October 8 – Pedro de Villagómez Vivanco, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lima, then Bishop of Arequipa (d. 1671)
• October 24 – Giuseppe Marcinò, Italian priest, member of the Order of Friars Minor - or Capuchins (d. 1655)
• October 25 – Jan Stanisław Sapieha, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (d. 1635)
• December 21 – Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake (1621–1657) (d. 1657)
• 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)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 230–233. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.