January 1, 1889
1889–1890 pandemic — worldwide pandemic beginning in 1889
1889–90 Football League — sports season
Exposition Universelle of 1889 — World's Fair held in Paris, France
Events surrounding the apparent murder–suicide of the Crown Prince of Austria and his mistress in 1889
Treaty of Wuchale 1889
1889 treaty between the United Kingdom, United States, and Germany
1889 worker rebellion on Navassa Island
Murder of teenager in Virginia in 1889