1289
Year 1289 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.Events
By place
America
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
- October 6 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia
- Joan of Artois, Countess of Foix
Deaths
- January 16 - Buqa, Mongol minister
- March 10 - Maud de Lacy, Countess of Hertford and Gloucester, English noble
- March 12 - King Demetrius II of Georgia
- King Leo III of Armenia
- Petrus de Dacia, Swedish monk and author
- Ugolino della Gherardesca, Italian politician and naval commander
- Ippen, Japanese monk
- Gruffydd Fychan I, last ruling prince of Powys Fadog
- Rudhramadevi,queen of the Kakatiya dynasty in India