1089

This article is about the year 1089. For the number, see 1089 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1050s  1060s  1070s  – 1080s –  1090s  1100s  1110s
Years:	1086 1087 1088 – 1089 – 1090 1091 1092

1089 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1089 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1089 MLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1842
Armenian calendar	538 ԹՎ ՇԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	5839
Bengali calendar	496
Berber calendar	2039
English Regnal year	2 Will. 2 – 3 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar	1633
Burmese calendar	451
Byzantine calendar	6597–6598
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3785 or 3725     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3786 or 3726
Coptic calendar	805–806
Discordian calendar	2255
Ethiopian calendar	1081–1082
Hebrew calendar	4849–4850
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1145–1146
- Shaka Samvat	1011–1012
- Kali Yuga	4190–4191
Holocene calendar	11089
Igbo calendar	89–90
Iranian calendar	467–468
Islamic calendar	481–482
Japanese calendar	Kanji 3 (寛治３年)
Julian calendar	1089 MLXXXIX
Korean calendar	3422
Minguo calendar	823 before ROC 民前823年
Seleucid era	1400/1401 AG
Thai solar calendar	1631–1632

Year 1089 (MLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• Rama Varma Kulashekhara is crowned in Kerala.
• Palmyra is destroyed by an earthquake.

Europe

• Northumbria is divided by the Normans into the counties of Northumberland, County Palatine of Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Lancashire.
• George II resigns the throne of Georgia in favor of his 16-year-old son, David IV.
• August 11 – A powerful earthquake is recorded in Britain.
• June 22 – Gaston IV of Bearn and the Frankish crusaders take the Aragonese city of Monzón from the emir of Zaragoza.

By topic

Religion

• Cîteaux Abbey, the first Cistercian monastery, is founded in southern France.
• The Synod of Melfi under Pope Urban II issued decrees against simony and the clerical marriage. Supposedly, this council declared that the concubines and illegitimate wives of these clerics were subject to slavery.

Births

• date unknown
  • Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1163)
  • Han Shizhong, Chinese general (d. 1151)

Deaths

• May 24 – Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury
• May 31 – Sigwin von Are, Archbishop of Cologne
• September 29 (or 30) – Theobald III, Count of Blois
• November 11 – Saint Peter Igneus, Italian Benedictine monk