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Also see: 1289 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1250s  1260s  1270s  – 1280s –  1290s  1300s  1310s
Years:	1286 1287 1288 – 1289 – 1290 1291 1292

1289 in topic:

Subjects:               Architecture – Art

Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1289 (MCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday ^[1] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1289 1.1 Europe 1.2 Asia 1.3 North America 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 In fiction 5 Notes

[edit] Events of 1289

[edit] Europe

• June 11 – The Italian Guelph and Ghibelline factions fight in the Battle of Campaldino; the Guelph victory secures their position of power in Florence.
• Pope Nicholas IV formally constitutes the University of Montpellier in France by papal bull, combining various existing schools under the mantle of a single university.
• Construction of Conwy Castle, ordered by King Edward I of England, is completed in Wales.
• Jews are expelled from Gascony and Anjou in France.
• Construction of the Belaya Vezha tower in Belarus is completed.

[edit] Asia

• April 27 – Fall of Tripoli: Mamluk sultan Qalawun captures the County of Tripoli (in present-day Lebanon) after a month-long siege, thus extinguishing the crusader state.
• Franciscan friars begin missionary work in China.
• Prince Subaru of Japan conquers the province of Saitama.

[edit] North America

• The 5,452 meter (17,887 feet) high volcano Popocatépetl is first ascended by members of the Tecuanipas tribe in present-day Mexico.

1289 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1289 MCCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2042
Armenian calendar	738 ԹՎ ՉԼԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-555 – -554
Bengali calendar	696
Berber calendar	2239
Buddhist calendar	1833
Burmese calendar	651
Byzantine calendar	6797 – 6798
Chinese calendar	戊子年十二月初八日 (3925/3985-12-8) — to — 己丑年十一月十八日 (3926/3986-11-18)
Coptic calendar	1005 – 1006
Ethiopian calendar	1281 – 1282
Hebrew calendar	5049 – 5050
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1344 – 1345
- Shaka Samvat	1211 – 1212
- Kali Yuga	4390 – 4391
Holocene calendar	11289
Iranian calendar	667 – 668
Islamic calendar	687 – 688
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3622
Thai solar calendar	1832
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[edit] Births

• October 4 – King Louis X of France (d. 1316)
• October 6 – King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
• King Leo IV of Armenia (d. 1307)

Also see Category:1289 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 16 – Buqa, Mongol minister
• March 12 – King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
• King Leo III of Armenia
• Petrus de Dacia, Swedish monk and author
• Ugolino della Gherardesca
• Ippen, Japanese monk (b. 1239)
• Gruffydd Fychan I, last ruling prince of Powys Fadog

Also see Category:1289 deaths.

[edit] In fiction

• The Doctor Who serial Marco Polo is set in 1289, where Doctor Who joins Marco Polo travelling along the Silk Road toward Beijing.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Calendar – Portugal – 1289" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1289-Portugal.