1589
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1550s 1560s 1570s – 1580s – 1590s 1600s 1610s |
| Years: | 1586 1587 1588 – 1589 – 1590 1591 1592 |
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| 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 |
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Year 1589 (MDLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
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 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