1589

1589 (MDLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday 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. As of the start of 1589, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1589 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1589
MDLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita2342
Armenian calendar1038
ԹՎ ՌԼԸ
Assyrian calendar6339
Balinese saka calendar1510–1511
Bengali calendar996
Berber calendar2539
English Regnal year31 Eliz. 1  32 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2133
Burmese calendar951
Byzantine calendar7097–7098
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4285 or 4225
     to 
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4286 or 4226
Coptic calendar1305–1306
Discordian calendar2755
Ethiopian calendar1581–1582
Hebrew calendar5349–5350
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1645–1646
 - Shaka Samvat1510–1511
 - Kali Yuga4689–4690
Holocene calendar11589
Igbo calendar589–590
Iranian calendar967–968
Islamic calendar997–998
Japanese calendarTenshō 17
(天正17年)
Javanese calendar1509–1510
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3922
Minguo calendar323 before ROC
民前323年
Nanakshahi calendar121
Thai solar calendar2131–2132
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
1715 or 1334 or 562
     to 
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
1716 or 1335 or 563
August 1: Henry III of France is stabbed by friar Jacques Clément

Events

September 15September 18: Battle of Arques

JanuaryJune

  • 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.

JulyDecember

  • August 1 King Henry III of France is stabbed by the fanatical Dominican friar Jacques Clément (who is immediately killed).
  • August 2 Following the death of Henry III of France, his army is thrown into confusion and an attempt 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.[2] 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

Henry Vane the Elder
Robert Arnauld d'Andilly
Gabriel Báthory

JanuaryJune

  • January 8 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)[3]
  • 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, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1654)

JulyDecember

  • July 2 Richard Pepys, English politician (d. 1659)
  • July 3 Johann Georg Wirsung, German anatomist (d. 1643)
  • July 15 Cornelis Bol, Flemish painter and etcher (d. 1666)
  • July 16 Sinibaldo Scorza, Italian painter (d. 1631)
  • August 1 Alexandrine von Taxis, German Imperial General Post Master (d. 1666)
  • 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, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1613)
  • September 1 Giovanni Pesaro, Doge of Venice (d. 1659)
  • 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 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)
  • October 31 Muhammad Parviz, Mughal emperor (d. 1626)
  • December 21 Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake (1621–1657) (d. 1657)

Date unknown

Deaths

Philothei
Alessandro Farnese
Saint Benedict the Moor

Date unknown

    • Pietro de' Mariscalchi, Italian painter (b. 1520)
    • Tansen, Indian musician (b. 1506)
    • Heo Nanseolheon, Korean poet (b. 1563)
    • Charles Dançay, French diplomat (b. 1510)

References

  1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 230–233. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. Henry Constable (1960). Poems. Liverpool University Press. p. 234.
  3. Augustiniana. Augustijns Historisch Instituut. 1991. p. 998. ISBN 978-90-6186-367-0.
  4. R. J. Knecht (September 11, 2014). The French Wars of Religion 1559-1598. Routledge. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-317-86231-4.
  5. Nicola Mary Sutherland (2002). Henry IV of France and the Politics of Religion. Intellect Books. p. 497. ISBN 978-1-84150-846-7.
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