490

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	470s 480s 490s 500s 510s
Years:	487 488 489 490 491 492 493

490 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	490 CDXC
Ab urbe condita	1243
Assyrian calendar	5240
Balinese saka calendar	411–412
Bengali calendar	−103
Berber calendar	1440
Buddhist calendar	1034
Burmese calendar	−148
Byzantine calendar	5998–5999
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3187 or 2980     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3188 or 2981
Coptic calendar	206–207
Discordian calendar	1656
Ethiopian calendar	482–483
Hebrew calendar	4250–4251
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	546–547
- Shaka Samvat	411–412
- Kali Yuga	3590–3591
Holocene calendar	10490
Iranian calendar	132 BP – 131 BP
Islamic calendar	136 BH – 135 BH
Javanese calendar	376–377
Julian calendar	490 CDXC
Korean calendar	2823
Minguo calendar	1422 before ROC 民前1422年
Nanakshahi calendar	−978
Seleucid era	801/802 AG
Thai solar calendar	1032–1033
Tibetan calendar	阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 616 or 235 or −537     — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 617 or 236 or −536

Year 490 (CDXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Faustus and Longinus (or, less frequently, year 1243 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 490 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.

Events

By place

Europe

• Spring – Odoacer receives reinforcements from the south and leaves Ravenna. He defeats the Ostrogoths near Faenza.
• King Theodoric the Great retreats to Ticinum (modern Pavia), where he constructs a fortified camp, which is blockaded.
• Summer – The Burgundians, under King Gundobad, cross the Alps and plunder Liguria. Many Romans are taken into captivity.
• King Alaric II supports Theodoric in his conquest of Italy, by dispatching a Visigoth army to raise Odoacer's siege of Pavia.
• August 11 – Battle of Adda: Theodoric and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer, on the Adda River, near Milan.
• Theodoric and his Ostrogoths lay siege to Ravenna. The cities of Cesena and Rimini retain their allegiance to Odoacer.

Asia

• Empress Feng of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty dies. She is buried with magnificent honors, in the Wenming Tomb.

By topic

Religion

• Euphemius becomes patriarch of Constantinople.

Births

• May 3 – K'an Joy Chitam I, ruler of Palenque (d. 565)
• John Philoponus, Aristotelian commentator and philosopher (d. 570)
• Romanos the Melodist, Syrian poet (approximate date)
• Vigilantia, Byzantine princess (approximate date)

Deaths

• Feng, Chinese empress and regent of Northern Wei (b. 442)
• Peter III Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria
• Theodora of Alexandria, Desert Mother