1471

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Years: 1468 1469 1470 - 1471 - 1472 1473 1474

Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

1471 by topic
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Politics
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1471 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1471 MCDLXXI
Ab urbe condita	2224
Armenian calendar	920 ԹՎ ՋԻ
Bahá'í calendar	-373 – -372
Buddhist calendar	2015
Chinese calendar	4107/4167-12-11 (庚寅年十二月十一日) — to — 4108/4168-11-20 (辛卯年十一月二十日)
Ethiopian calendar	1463 – 1464
Hebrew calendar	5231 – 5232
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1526 – 1527
- Shaka Samvat	1393 – 1394
- Kali Yuga	4572 – 4573
Holocene calendar	11471
Iranian calendar	849 – 850
Islamic calendar	875 – 876
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 3 (文明3年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2131 (皇紀2131年)
- Jōmon Era	11471
Julian calendar	1516
Korean calendar	3804
Thai solar calendar	2014
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This article is about the year 1471, not the BT caller ID service accessible by dialling 1-4-7-1.

[edit] Events

• March - The Yorkist King Edward IV returns to England to reclaim his throne.
• April 14 - Battle of Barnet - Edward defeats the Lancastrian army under Warwick, who is killed.
• May 4 - Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward defeats a Lancastrian army under Queen Margaret and her son, Edward of Westminster the Prince of Wales, who is killed. Later in the month, King Henry VI of England is murdered, eliminating all Lancastrian opposition.
• July 14 - Battle of Shelon between forces of Muscovy and the Republic of Novgorod.
• August 9 - Pope Sixtus IV succeeds Pope Paul II as the 212th pope.
• October 10 - Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm. The forces of Regent of Sweden Sten Sture the Elder with help of farmers and miners repel an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
• The Shetland and Orkney islands were ceded to Scotland in lieu of an unpaid dowry.
• First Inca Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui of the Inca Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Tupac Inca Yupanqui.
• Pedro Escobar and João Gomes first visit São Tomé and Principe.
• Portuguese sailors reach Mina de Ouro on the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) and explore Cape St. Catherine, two degrees south of the equator. Mina de Ouro becomes the chief center for the gold trade and a major source of revenue for the crown.

[edit] Births

• February 15 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (died 1503)
• May 21 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician (died 1528)
• July 15 - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (died 1494)
• July 31 - Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (died 1507)
• August 27 - George, Duke of Saxony (died 1539)
• October 7 - King Frederick I of Denmark (died 1533)
• October 15 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (died 1526)
• date unknown
  • John Forrest, English martyr and friar (died 1538)
  • Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (died 1513)

[edit] Deaths

• January 18 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (born 1419)
• February 21 - John of Rokycan, Archbishop of Prague (born c1396)
• March 14 - Thomas Malory, English author (born c1405)
• March 22 - George of Podebrady, first elected King of Bohemia (born1420)
• April 14
  • John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (born 1431)
  • Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (born 1428)
• May 4
  • Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset (executed) (born 1438)
  • Edward, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (born 1453)
• May 21 - King Henry VI of England (murdered in prison) (born 1421)
• July 25 - Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (born 1380)
• July 26 - Pope Paul II (born 1417)
• August 20 - Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (born 1413)
• December 17 - Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (born 1397)
• date unknown
  • Pachacuti, Inca emperor (born 1438)
  • Thomas Tresham, Speaker of the House of Commons