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You can write anything you want, but your example doesn't make much sense.
You can write "In the years beginning [1492 through 1555]" and that gives you a time period to discuss something happening....
Or you can write "in the year 1492...." for one specific year that something started. And then you can go on in the next sentence to discuss things that happened in later years than 1492...