1289

: "Also see: 1289 (number)".Year 1289 (MCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday "Calendar - Portugal - 1289" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1289&country=15 TimeandDate-calendar-1289-Portugal] .] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1289

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.

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.

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.

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 ".

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 ".

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.

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