1889

1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1889th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 889th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1889, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –  1890s  1900s  1910s
Years:	1886 1887 1888 – 1889 – 1890 1891 1892

1889 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1889 MDCCCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2642
Armenian calendar	1338 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	6639
Bahá'í calendar	45–46
Balinese saka calendar	1810–1811
Bengali calendar	1296
Berber calendar	2839
British Regnal year	52 Vict. 1 – 53 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2433
Burmese calendar	1251
Byzantine calendar	7397–7398
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4585 or 4525     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4586 or 4526
Coptic calendar	1605–1606
Discordian calendar	3055
Ethiopian calendar	1881–1882
Hebrew calendar	5649–5650
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1945–1946
- Shaka Samvat	1810–1811
- Kali Yuga	4989–4990
Holocene calendar	11889
Igbo calendar	889–890
Iranian calendar	1267–1268
Islamic calendar	1306–1307
Japanese calendar	Meiji 22 (明治２２年)
Javanese calendar	1818–1819
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4222
Minguo calendar	23 before ROC 民前23年
Nanakshahi calendar	421
Thai solar calendar	2431–2432
Tibetan calendar	阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 2015 or 1634 or 862     — to — 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 2016 or 1635 or 863

Football clubs such as Sheffield United FC were founded in the year 1889.

Events

• Brazil becomes a republic
• 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. Paris Exhibition, where the Eiffel tower was first open to the public
• June 14 – the Treaty of Berlin (1889) is signed

Births

• April 9 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist
• September 14 – Maria Esther de Capovilla, Worlds oldest woman (d. 2006)
• Alfonso Reyes
• April 20 – Adolf Hitler
• December 3 - Kshudiram Bose - Indian patriot against British Raj (d. 1908)