1494

1494 (MCDXCIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1494th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 494th year of the 2nd millennium, the 94th year of the 15th century, and the 5th year of the 1490s decade. As of the start of 1494, 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:	1491 1492 1493 – 1494 – 1495 1496 1497

1494 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1494 MCDXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2247
Armenian calendar	943 ԹՎ ՋԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	6244
Balinese saka calendar	1415–1416
Bengali calendar	901
Berber calendar	2444
English Regnal year	9 Hen. 7 – 10 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2038
Burmese calendar	856
Byzantine calendar	7002–7003
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4190 or 4130     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4191 or 4131
Coptic calendar	1210–1211
Discordian calendar	2660
Ethiopian calendar	1486–1487
Hebrew calendar	5254–5255
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1550–1551
- Shaka Samvat	1415–1416
- Kali Yuga	4594–4595
Holocene calendar	11494
Igbo calendar	494–495
Iranian calendar	872–873
Islamic calendar	899–900
Japanese calendar	Meiō 3 (明応３年)
Javanese calendar	1411–1412
Julian calendar	1494 MCDXCIV
Korean calendar	3827
Minguo calendar	418 before ROC 民前418年
Nanakshahi calendar	26
Thai solar calendar	2036–2037
Tibetan calendar	阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1620 or 1239 or 467     — to — 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1621 or 1240 or 468

Births

• February 2 – Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (died 1557)
• April 20 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (died 1566)
• May 24 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
• September 5 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (died 1576)
• September 12 – King Francis I of France (died 1547)
• November 6 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (died 1566)
• Purandara Dasa, Indian poet and composer (died 1564)
• Saito Dosan, Japanese warlord (died 1556)
• John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (died 1554)
• Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (died 1573)
• Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (died 1519)
• Lucas van Leyden, Dutch engraver and painter (died 1533)
• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (died 1519)
• Hans Tausen, Danish religious reformer (died 1561)
• Qiu Ying, Chinese painter (died 1552)