1289

By place

America

• The 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 after a month-long siege, thus extinguishing the Crusader State.

  Asia

• Prince Subaru of Japan conquers the province of Saitama.

  Europe

• June 11 - Battle of Campaldino: The Italian Guelph and Ghibelline factions fight; 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.

  By topic

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