480

480 (CDLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 480th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 480th year of the 1st millennium, the 80th year of the 5th century, and the 1st year of the 480s decade. As of the start of 480, the Gregorian calendar was 1 day ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

480 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	480 CDLXXX
Ab urbe condita	1233
Assyrian calendar	5230
Balinese saka calendar	401–402
Bengali calendar	−113
Berber calendar	1430
Buddhist calendar	1024
Burmese calendar	−158
Byzantine calendar	5988–5989
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 3176 or 3116     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3177 or 3117
Coptic calendar	196–197
Discordian calendar	1646
Ethiopian calendar	472–473
Hebrew calendar	4240–4241
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	536–537
- Shaka Samvat	401–402
- Kali Yuga	3580–3581
Holocene calendar	10480
Iranian calendar	142 BP – 141 BP
Islamic calendar	146 BH – 145 BH
Javanese calendar	365–367
Julian calendar	480 CDLXXX
Korean calendar	2813
Minguo calendar	1432 before ROC 民前1432年
Nanakshahi calendar	−988
Seleucid era	791/792 AG
Thai solar calendar	1022–1023
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 606 or 225 or −547     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 607 or 226 or −546

Events

By place

Europe

• Odoacer stops an attempt by Julius Nepos to gain control of Italy again, and has Julius killed.
• Odoacer takes control of Dalmatia.
• Ireland: The Diocese of Connor is put up.

Asia

• Narasimhagupta Baladitya follows his father Skandagupta as king of the Gupta Empire.

Births

• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, a Christian philosopher, was born.
• Damascius, a Neoplatonist philosopher, was born.
• Gelimer, the last king of the Vandals, was born.
• Benedict of Nursia, an early monasticist, was born (approximate date)
• Scholastica, the twin sister of Benedict of Nursia, was born.
• Xiao Zhaowen, the emperor of China's Southern Qi Dynasty (who was often known as the Prince of Hailing), was born.

Deaths

• Julius Nepos, the last legitimate Western Roman Emperor, was killed.
• Skandagupta, the ruler of the Gupta Empire, died.