189

This article is about the year 189. For the number, see 189 (number). For other uses, see 189 (disambiguation).

Year 189 (CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Map of the Chinese provinces in the prelude of the Three kingdom period (In the late Han dynasty period, 189 CE).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century 2nd century 3rd century
Decades:	160s 170s 180s 190s 200s
Years:	186 187 188 189 190 191 192

189 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	189 CLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	942
Assyrian calendar	4939
Balinese saka calendar	110–111
Bengali calendar	−404
Berber calendar	1139
Buddhist calendar	733
Burmese calendar	−449
Byzantine calendar	5697–5698
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 2886 or 2679     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 2887 or 2680
Coptic calendar	−95 – −94
Discordian calendar	1355
Ethiopian calendar	181–182
Hebrew calendar	3949–3950
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	245–246
- Shaka Samvat	110–111
- Kali Yuga	3289–3290
Holocene calendar	10189
Iranian calendar	433 BP – 432 BP
Islamic calendar	446 BH – 445 BH
Javanese calendar	66–67
Julian calendar	189 CLXXXIX
Korean calendar	2522
Minguo calendar	1723 before ROC 民前1723年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1279
Seleucid era	500/501 AG
Thai solar calendar	731–732
Tibetan calendar	阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 315 or −66 or −838     — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 316 or −65 or −837

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city.

China

• Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty.
• Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor.
• Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Galen publishes his "Treatise on the various temperaments" (aka On the Elements According to Hippocrates).

Religion

• Pope Victor I succeeds Pope Eleuterus as the fourteenth pope, the first from Africa.
• Demetrius of Alexandria becomes Patriarch of Alexandria.
• Pantaenus, who was sent by the bishop of Alexandria to India to preach Christianity, meets with little success.

Births

• March 7 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (d. 211)
• Ling Tong, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 217)
• Zhang Chunhua, Chinese noblewoman and aristocrat (d. 247)

Deaths

• May 13 – Ling of Han (or Liu Hong), Chinese emperor (b. 156)
• May 24 – Eleutherius, bishop of Rome (or Catholic Church)
• September 22 – He Jin, Chinese Grand Marshal and regent
• Ding Yuan (or Jian Yang), Chinese official and warlord
• Jian Shuo, Chinese eunuch leader (Ten Attendants)
• Lingsi (or He), Chinese empress of the Han dynasty
• Xiaoren, Chinese empress dowager of the Han dynasty