General fact: 1490 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Mathematical fact: 1490 is the 14^{th} Tetranacci number.
Trivia: 1490 is an uninteresting number.
Historical date: January 29th is the day in 1989 that Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.