The denomination 490 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.

The denomination 490 BC 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.

At this point occurs the earliest firm date in Gundobad's reign: in the early months of 490, while Odovacar and Theodoric the Great were locked in battle over control of Pavia, the Burgundians seized the opportunity to invade northwestern Italy.

We have very little information as to its early history: an obscure notice in Aristotle, from which it appears to have at one time fallen under the dominion of the tyrant Phalaris, being the only mention we find of it, until about 490 BCE, when it afforded a temporary refuge to Scythes, tyrant of Zancle, after his expulsion from the latter city.

The idea that with the transfer of the imperial capital from Rome to Constantinople primacy in the Church was also transferred is found in undeveloped form as early as John Philoponus ( c. 490 – c.

* Saint Ríoch, a nephew of St. Patrick, early Irish Christian missionary and Abbot of Innisboffin in Ireland ( ca. 490 )

The church and relics of St Gwithian or Gocianus, built in 490, were uncovered from the beach and dunes during the early part of the 19th century, but were then allowed to be reclaimed by the shifting sands.

In the first large-scale depictions during the early archaic period ( 640 – 580 BC ), the artists tried to draw one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.

Urban civilization may have begun in the area as early as 3, 000 to 2, 000 BC.

Pig iron, a very hard but brittle alloy of iron and carbon, was being produced in China as early as 1200 BC, but did not arrive in Europe until the Middle Ages.

The early policy of Ambracia was determined by its loyalty to Corinth ( for which it probably served as an entrepot in the Epirus trade ), its consequent aversion to Corcyra ( as Ambracia participated on the Corinthian side at the Battle of Sybota, which took place in 433 BC between the rebellious corinthian colony of Corcyra ( modern Corfu ) and Corinth ).

Another early reference to Amber was Pytheas ( 330 BC ) whose work " On the Ocean " is lost, but was referenced by Pliny.

It minted coins from the early fifth century BC to the mid-third century AD.

Some early sources call him their father or grandfather, but considering the commonly accepted dates of the fall of Troy ( 1184 BC ) and the founding of Rome ( 753 BC ), this seems unlikely.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

These events appear to refer to the early part of the year 368 BC.

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

In early manhood ( c. 464 – 461 BC ) he went to Athens, which was rapidly becoming the centre of Greek culture.

Around 500 BC the Ur-Parthenon was dismantled to make place for a newer and grander building, the " Older Parthenon " ( often called Pro-Parthenon, " early Parthenon ").

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

The account which Herodotus gives of the hostilities between the two states in the early years of the 5th century BC is to the following effect.

As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a " free and autonomous city " as early as 188 BC, and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance.

The earliest written records indicate the Egyptians and Babylonians used all the elementary arithmetic operations as early as 2000 BC.

In West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean early copper zinc alloys are now known in small numbers from a number of third Millennium BC sites in the Aegean, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kalmykia, Turkmenistan and Georgia and from 2nd Millennium BC sites in West India, Uzbekistan, Iran, Syria, Iraq and Israel.

Near the southern border, cattle of the early longhorn breed whose coloration was black with a lineback, with white speckles frequently appearin' on the sides and belly, were called `` zorrillas ''.

The breed is very old ; there are suggestions it may have been brought to Ireland as early as 7000 BC.

A champion of breed purity, she struggled alone for nearly three decades, and real Saluki popularity did not take hold until the early 1920s, when officers returning from the war in the Middle East and the Arab Revolt brought their pet Salukis home with them.

He was one of a new breed of politicians who rose to prominence in the early years of the Athenian democracy, along with his great rival Aristides.

Lagomorphs mature sexually at an early age and can give birth to several litters a year ( hence the saying, " to breed like bunnies ").

Zebu were imported into Brazil in the early twentieth century and crossbred with Charolais cattle, a European taurine breed.

A breed of powerful hybrids appeared in the 50s and 60s and raced on both sides of the Atlantic, featuring European chassis and large American engines – from the early Allard cars via hybrids such as Lotus 19s fitted with large engines through to the AC Cobra.

Introduced to zoos in the early 20th century, they breed well in captivity and the vast majority of research is derived from zoo specimens.

In the early stages of the breed crosses with Devon Rex were used, but later this crossing was frowned upon because it caused health problems.

Although hairless cats have been reported throughout history, breeders in Europe have been working on the Sphynx breed since the early 1960s.

The dogs found early success in Spain and it is generally believed that Spanish seamen introduced the breed to the Canary Island of Tenerife.

Schutzhund ( German for protection dog ) is a dog sport that was developed in Germany in the early 1900s as a breed suitability test for the German Shepherd Dog.

An early modern recorded reference to the Pomeranian breed is from 2 November 1764, in a diary entry in James Boswell's Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland.

In early October 2007 Daniel Olsson, now in Trail of Murder with ex-vocalist breed, decided to leave the band.

-This theory was forwarded at the 2008 Rhodesian Ridgeback World Congress, and contends that an honest evaluation of the breed's functional history indicates that during its formative development and early use as a breed, the Ridgeback was much more a " Hunter's / Farmer's Ox-Wagon Dog " than it was a " Lion Dog ".

By the early 1990s, Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) who registered domains for their customers were joined by a new breed of domain name specialists who had an entrepreneurial attitude to domain names.

Several other modern breeds exist that descended from the early Fox Terrier breed, including the Brazilian Terrier, Japanese Terrier, Miniature Fox Terrier, Ratonero Bodeguero Andaluz, Rat Terrier and Tenterfield Terrier.

A Schipperke (; ) is a small Belgian breed of dog that originated in the early 16th century.

A doe may reproduce as early as 18 months of age and as late as five years during drought, but normally she is two and a half before she begins to breed.

Crossbills breed very early in the year, often in winter months, to take advantage of maximum cone supplies.

During the early period of breed development, it became clear that Wong Mau herself was genetically a hybrid between a Siamese and Burmese type.

By 1813 it was remarked that " ducks form a material article at market from Aylesbury and places adjacent: they are white, and as it seems of an early breed: they are bred and brought up by poor people, and sent to London by the weekly carriers ".

From April to June they breed, with the young emerging as early as late May.

They breed in late January or early February and are often heard calling to each other regularly as early in the fall as October.