1492
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| Gregorian calendar | 1492 MCDXCII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2245 |
| Armenian calendar | 941 ԹՎ ՋԽԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6242 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1413–1414 |
| Bengali calendar | 898–899 |
| Berber calendar | 2442 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Hen. 7 – 8 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2036 |
| Burmese calendar | 854 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7000–7001 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4189 or 3982 — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4190 or 3983 |
| Coptic calendar | 1208–1209 |
| Discordian calendar | 2658 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1484–1485 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5252–5253 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1548–1549 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1413–1414 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4592–4593 |
| Holocene calendar | 11492 |
| Igbo calendar | 492–493 |
| Iranian calendar | 870–871 |
| Islamic calendar | 897–898 |
| Japanese calendar | Entoku 4 / Meiō 1 (明応元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1409–1410 |
| Julian calendar | 1492 MCDXCII |
| Korean calendar | 3825 |
| Minguo calendar | 420 before ROC 民前420年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 24 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2034–2035 |
| Tibetan calendar | ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1618 or 1237 or 465 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1619 or 1238 or 466 |
Year 1492 (MCDXCII) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
The year 1492 marked a significant milestone in world history, with the beginning of the invasion and conquest of the "New World" of the Americas, and the "Old World" in Europe, as well as the unification of Spain, the end of Islamic rule in continental Europe, and the expulsion of the Jewish people from Spain.