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

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America

  • The 5,453 meter (17,887 feet) high volcano Popocatépetl is first ascended by members of the Tecuanipas tribe in present-day Mexico.

    • Africa

  • 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.

    • Asia

  • Prince Subaru of Japan conquers the province of Saitama.

    • 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.
  • 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.

    • Education

  • 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.

    • Markets

  • In Siena, twenty three partners, including five members of the Bonsignori family, re-create the Gran Tavola, formerly the most successful European bank, which had ceased its operations after the death of its creator and manager Orlando Bonsignori in 1273.
    • Religion
  • Franciscan friars begin missionary work in China.

    • Births

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

    • Deaths

  • January 16 – Buqa, Mongol minister
  • March 12 – King Demetrius 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

    • References

    1289 Wikipedia
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