1189

Events

* January 21 — Philip II of France and Henry II of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
* February 18 — Emperor Xiaozong abdicated to Emperor Guangzong.
* August 29 — Ban Kulin writes "The Charter of Kulin", which becomes a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood.
* September 3 — Richard Lionheart is crowned as king of England.

* This year is fixed as the end of time immemorial in English law in 1276.
* The Siege of Acre begins.
* The Crusader castles of Montreal and Kerak are captured by Saladin.
* The town of Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland gains its charter.

Ongoing

*Khmer-Cham War (1170-1203)
*Third Crusade (1187-1191)

Births

*"date unknown"
**Saint Pedro Nolasco, French religious leader (d. 1256)
**Yelü Chucai, Mandarin statesman (d. 1243)
**Yuri II, grand prince of Vladimir (d. 1238)
*"probable" - Skule Bårdsson, Norwegian nobleman (d. 1240)

Deaths

* January 1 - Henry of Marcy, Cistercian abbot (b. c. 1136)
* March 25 - Frederick of Bohemia
* May 17 — Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
* July 6 — King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
* July 13 — Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)
* September 3 - Jacob of Orléans, Jewish scholar
* October 1 — Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
* November 11 — King William II of Sicily ("the Good") (b. 1153)
* November 14 — William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
*"date unknown"
**Anvari, Persian poet (b. 1126)
**Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair, King of Connacht
**Fulmar, Archbishop of Trier (b. c. 1135)
**Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland
**Geoffrey Ridel, Lord Chancellor of England
**Saito Musashibo Benkei, Japanese fighting monk (b. 1155)
**Emperor Shizong of Jin (b. 1123)