| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 481 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 481 CDLXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1234 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5231 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 402–403 |
| Bengali calendar | −112 |
| Berber calendar | 1431 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1025 |
| Burmese calendar | −157 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5989–5990 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3178 or 2971 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3179 or 2972 |
| Coptic calendar | 197–198 |
| Discordian calendar | 1647 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 473–474 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4241–4242 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 537–538 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 402–403 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3581–3582 |
| Holocene calendar | 10481 |
| Iranian calendar | 141 BP – 140 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 145 BH – 144 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 367–368 |
| Julian calendar | 481 CDLXXXI |
| Korean calendar | 2814 |
| Minguo calendar | 1431 before ROC 民前1431年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −987 |
| Seleucid era | 792/793 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1023–1024 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 607 or 226 or −546 — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 608 or 227 or −545 |
Year 481 (CDLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Maecius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1234 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 481 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.