492

This article is about the year 492. For the number, see 492 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century – 5th century – 6th century
Decades:	460s  470s  480s  – 490s –  500s  510s  520s
Years:	489 490 491 – 492 – 493 494 495

492 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

492 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	492 CDXCII
Ab urbe condita	1245
Assyrian calendar	5242
Bengali calendar	−101
Berber calendar	1442
Buddhist calendar	1036
Burmese calendar	−146
Byzantine calendar	6000–6001
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3188 or 3128     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3189 or 3129
Coptic calendar	208–209
Discordian calendar	1658
Ethiopian calendar	484–485
Hebrew calendar	4252–4253
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	548–549
- Shaka Samvat	414–415
- Kali Yuga	3593–3594
Holocene calendar	10492
Iranian calendar	130 BP – 129 BP
Islamic calendar	134 BH – 133 BH
Julian calendar	492 CDXCII
Korean calendar	2825
Minguo calendar	1420 before ROC 民前1420年
Seleucid era	803/804 AG
Thai solar calendar	1034–1035

Year 492 (CDXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Anastasius and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 1245 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 492 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

Byzantine Empire

• Isaurian War: The Isaurians begin a revolt against emperor Anastasius I in southern Central Anatolia. The rebels are defeated by the Eastern Roman army under John the Scythian and John the Hunchback in the Battle of Cotyaeum (subordinate commanders including the future Justin I). They retreat to their mountain fortresses and continue a guerrilla warfare against the Roman forces until 497.

Europe

• King Theoderic the Great conquers Rimini and brings his Ostrogoth fleet to blockade the harbours six miles from the capital of Ravenna. Important provisions, food and supplies, are cut off and the inhabitants are starved to death.

By topic

Religion

• January 3 – Pope Felix III dies after a 9-year reign in which he has excommunicated Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople, thus dividing the Western Church and Eastern Church (Acacian schism). He is succeeded by Gelasius I as the 49th pope.

Deaths

• January 3 – Pope Felix III
• Xiao Ni, prince of Southern Qi (b. 444)