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- This article is about year 1471. For the BT caller-ID service, see: 1-4-7-1.
Year 1471 (MCDLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1471
- March 1 – Emperor Le Thanh Tong captures the Champa Capital, establishing new regions in middle Vietnam.
- 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: The forces of Muscovy defeat the Republic of Novgorod.
- August 9 – Pope Sixtus IV succeeds Pope Paul II as the 212th pope.
- August 29 – King Afonso V of Portugal conquers Tangiers, in Morocco.
- October 10 – Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: The forces of Regent of Sweden Sten Sture the Elder, with the help of farmers and miners, repel an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
- The Shetland and Orkney islands are ceded to Scotland in lieu of an unpaid dowry.
- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui of the Inca Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Tupac Inca Yupanqui.
- João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar crossed the Equator. The southern hemisphere was discovered and the sailors began to be guided by a new constellation, the Southern Cross.
- Discovery of the islands of São Tome and Principe attributed to these same sailors.
- 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.
- Moorish exiles from Spain, led by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami, found the city of Chefchaouen in the north of Morocco.
Births
- February 15 – Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
- May 21 – Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician (d. 1528)
- July 15 – Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
- July 31 – Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1507)
- August 27 – George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)
- October 7 – King Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
- October 15 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)
- date unknown
- John Forrest, English martyr and friar (d. 1538)
- Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (d. 1513)
Deaths
- January 18 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
- February 10 – Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1413)
- February 21 – John of Rokycan, Archbishop of Prague (b. c. 1396)
- March 14 – Thomas Malory, English author (b. c. 1405)
- March 22 – George of Podebrady, first elected King of Bohemia (b. 1420)
- April 14
- May 4
- Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset (executed) (b. 1438)
- Edward, Prince of Wales (in battle) (b. 1453)
- May 21 – King Henry VI of England (murdered in prison) (b. 1421)
- July 25 – Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (b. 1380)
- July 26 – Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
- August 20 – Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (b. 1413)
- December 17 – Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1397)
- date unknown
- Pachacuti, Inca emperor (b. 1438)
- Thomas Tresham, Speaker of the House of Commons