1589 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Henry III, then Henry IV

Events

• August 1 - Henry III was stabbed with a knife, and died the next day. Henry IV of France's succession was followed by a four-year long war.
• 15 to 16 September - Battle of Arques

Births

• May 28 - Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, Conseiller d'Etat

Full date missing

• Jérôme Bignon, lawyer
• Jean Sirmond, poet

Deaths

• January 5 - Catherine de' Medici, Italian noblewoman and Queen of France
• August 1 - Jacques Clément, conspirator and the killer of king Henry III
• August 2 - Henry III of France, King of France from 1574 to 1589
• September 19 - Jean-Antoine de Baïf, poet
• Charles Dançay, French diplomat