1189

Events 
 January 21 – Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade
 September 3– Richard I of England is crowned as king of England.
 August 29– Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which become a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood
 This year was fixed as the start of time immemorial in English law in 1276.
 Beginning of the Siege of Acre.
 The Crusader castles of Montreal and Kerak are captured by Saladin.

 Births 
 Yuri II, grand prince of Vladimir (d. 1238)

 Deaths 
 July 6 — King Henry II of England (b. 1133)