1490

1490 (MCDXC) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1490th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 490th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 15th century, and the 1st year of the 1490s decade. As of the start of 1490, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1487 1488 1489 – 1490 – 1491 1492 1493

1490 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1490 MCDXC
Ab urbe condita	2243
Armenian calendar	939 ԹՎ ՋԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	6240
Balinese saka calendar	1411–1412
Bengali calendar	897
Berber calendar	2440
English Regnal year	5 Hen. 7 – 6 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2034
Burmese calendar	852
Byzantine calendar	6998–6999
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4186 or 4126     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4187 or 4127
Coptic calendar	1206–1207
Discordian calendar	2656
Ethiopian calendar	1482–1483
Hebrew calendar	5250–5251
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1546–1547
- Shaka Samvat	1411–1412
- Kali Yuga	4590–4591
Holocene calendar	11490
Igbo calendar	490–491
Iranian calendar	868–869
Islamic calendar	895–896
Japanese calendar	Entoku 2 (延徳２年)
Javanese calendar	1406–1408
Julian calendar	1490 MCDXC
Korean calendar	3823
Minguo calendar	422 before ROC 民前422年
Nanakshahi calendar	22
Thai solar calendar	2032–2033
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1616 or 1235 or 463     — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1617 or 1236 or 464

Events

• Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published.
• Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan.
• Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
• Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
• John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
• Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun.
• Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia.
• Catholic missionaries arrive in the African kingdom of Kongo.
• Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany.
• Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action in small-bore tubes.
• December 19 – Anne of Brittany married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy

Births

• Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian warlord and rebel (d. 1523)