History
1489
General
Population: 450 Million*
- Mathematics: Symbols plus + and minus – come into use
- Religion: Inquisitors Kramer and Sprenger publish Malleus Maleficarum as handbook for witch hunting
- Deaths: Zurich mayor Hans Waldmann (executed)
Asia
- India: Yasuf Adil Shah – former slave – becomes ruler of Bijapur, India
Europe
- Cyprus: Caterina Cornaro Queen of Cyprus forced to cede kingdom to Venice
- Italian States: Benedetto da Majano begins to build Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
- Spain: Typhus outbreak in south
- Switzerland: Hans Waldmann the Mayor of Zurich executed as dictator