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| 1889 |
| | | A collapsing dam sends 40 feet of water through Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2000 people | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The tone poem Don Juan, by the 25-year-old Richard Strauss, has a passionately mixed response at its premiere in Weimar | |
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| 1889 |
| | | US reformer Jane Addams sets up Hull House as a neighbourhood social centre in a deprived area of Chicago | |
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| 1889 |
| | | France and Britain agree colonial boundaries for Senegal and Gambia in west Africa | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The French Panama Canal company goes into liquidation with work still in progress | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The first conference of American nations, in Washington, D.C., launches the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (later called the Pan-American Union) | |
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| 1889 |
| | | English musicologist George Grove completes publication of his four-volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians | |
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| 1889 |
| | | A coup removes emperor Pedro II from his throne in Brazil, putting in his place a military dictatorship | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The US industrialist Andrew Carnegie argues in The Gospel of Wealth that 'the man who dies rich dies disgraced' | |
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| 1889 |
| | | Austrian composer Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere in Budapest of his first symphony, described as a 'symphonic poem' | |
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