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This article is about year 1491. For the history book by Charles C. Mann, see .


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Year 1491 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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1491 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1491
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Ab urbe condita2244
Armenian calendar940
ԹՎ ՋԽ
Bah' calendar-353 – -352
Buddhist calendar2035
Chinese calendar4127/4187-8-18
(庚戌年八月十八日)
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4128/4188-6-27
(辛亥年六月廿七日)
Coptic calendar1207 – 1208
Ethiopian calendar1483 – 1484
Hebrew calendar 5251 – 5252
Hindu calendars
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 - Shaka Samvat1413 – 1414
 - Kali Yuga4592 – 4593
Holocene calendar11491
Iranian calendar869 – 870
Islamic calendar896 – 897
Japanese calendarEntoku 0
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 - Imperial YearKōki 2151
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Julian calendar1536
Korean calendar3824
Thai solar calendar2034
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Charles C. Mann (fl. 2000s) is an American journalist and author, specializing in scientific topics.

He has been coauthor of four books, and in 2005 he wrote .

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14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to 1400.

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  • The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age
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15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500.

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  • 1402: Ottoman and Timurid Empires fight at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I.
  • 1402: The conquest of the Canary Islands signals the beginning of the Spanish Empire.

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  • 1500s: Mississippian culture disappears.

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