| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 4th century – 5th century – 6th century |
| Decades: | 450s 460s 470s – 480s – 490s 500s 510s |
| Years: | 478 479 480 – 481 – 482 483 484 |
| 481 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 481 CDLXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1234 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5231 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1363–-1362 |
| Bengali calendar | -112 |
| Berber calendar | 1431 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1025 |
| Burmese calendar | -157 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5989–5990 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年十一月十五日 (3117/3177-11-15) — to —
辛酉年十一月廿五日(3118/3178-11-25) |
| Coptic calendar | 197–198 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 473–474 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4241–4242 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 537–538 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 403–404 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3582–3583 |
| Holocene calendar | 10481 |
| Iranian calendar | 141 BP – 140 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 145 BH – 144 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2814 |
| Minguo calendar | 1431 before ROC 民前1431年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1024 |
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.