There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1480 BC was a common year starting on a Tuesday, just like 1572 BC, 1566 BC, 1555 BC, 1544 BC, 1538 BC, 1527 BC, 1516 BC, 1510 BC, 1499 BC, 1488 BC in the century before it and 1471 BC, 1460 BC, 1454 BC, 1443 BC, 1432 BC, 1426 BC, 1415 BC, 1404 BC, 1398 BC, 1387 BC in the next.
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.