History
1589
General
Population: 531 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Robert Green (romance), Thomas Nashe (critique of literature), George Puttenham (English writing),
Amador Arrais (conversations on moral and religious themes), Justus Lipsius (politics), Thoinot Arbeay (dancing treatise), Richard Hakluyt (English navigation)
Art includes Caravaggio "Bacchus",
Music includes William Byrd (book on songs)
- Religion: Russian church independent from Eastern Orthodox
Pope Sixtus V sanctions castrati singers
- Science: Galileo Galilei becomes professor of mathematics at U of Pisa - publishes treatise of center of gravity
- Deaths: Potter and writer Bernard de Palissy, Catherine de Medici of France, King Henry III of France, Huguenot wwriter Bernard Palissy,
"Werewolf of Bedburg" Peter Stumpp,
Europe
- General: Sir Francis Drake and navy fails to take Lisbon - Antonio of Crato with British support lands in Portugal and marches on Lisbon to reconquer the throne – defeated by Spaniards
Spanish Philip tries to incite Irish revolt
Remaining Spanish Armada destroyed under Lord Howard of Effingham Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins – war to 1603
- England: House of Commons first appoints a Standing Committee for Privileges
Sidney Sussex College founded at Cambridge
Reverend William Lee at Cambridge invents the stocking frame – first knitting machine
- France: Death of Catherine de Medici the Queen Mother of France
King Henry III (of Guise) and last of the house of Valois assassinated – on deathbed recognizes Henry King of Navarre as his successor –
first Bourbon to become King of France
Forks first used at French court
Edict of Nantes ends French wars of religion
- German States: German serial killer and cannibal Peter Stumpp "Werewolf of Bedburg" dies
- Russia: Boris Godunov asserts Moscow's religious independence of Constantinople
Kiev academy founded