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1471 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 1471
MCDLXXI

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Ab urbe condita| 2224
Armenian calendar| 920
ԹՎ ՋԻ
Assyrian calendar| 6221
Balinese saka calendar| 1392–1393
Bengali calendar| 877–878
Berber calendar| 2421
English Regnal year| 10 Edw. 4 – 11 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar| 2015
Burmese calendar| 833
Byzantine calendar| 6979–6980
Chinese calendar| 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4168 or 3961
— to —
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4169 or 3962
Coptic calendar| 1187–1188
Discordian calendar| 2637
Ethiopian calendar| 1463–1464
Hebrew calendar| 5231–5232
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 1527–1528
\- Shaka Samvat| 1392–1393
\- Kali Yuga| 4571–4572
Holocene calendar| 11471
Igbo calendar| 471–472
Iranian calendar| 849–850
Islamic calendar| 875–876
Japanese calendar| Bunmei 3
(文明３年)
Javanese calendar| 1387–1388
Julian calendar| 1471
MCDLXXI
Korean calendar| 3804
Minguo calendar| 441 before ROC
民前441年
Nanakshahi calendar| 3
Thai solar calendar| 2013–2014
Tibetan calendar| ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་
(male Iron-Tiger)
1597 or 1216 or 444
— to —
ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Iron-Hare)
1598 or 1217 or 445

Year 1471 (MCDLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

## Events

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### January-December

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* January 22 - Prince João of Aviz, the eldest son of King Afonso V, marries his first cousin, Eleanor of Viseu.
* January - Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar reach the gold-trading centre of Elmina on the Gold Coast of west Africa,[1] and explore Cape St. Catherine, two degrees south of the equator, so that they begin to be guided by the Southern Cross constellation. They also visit Sassandra on the Ivory Coast.
* February \- March - Champa–Đại Việt War: Emperor Lê Thánh Tông 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.[2]
* 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.[3]
* May 21 - King Edward IV celebrates his victories with a triumphal parade on his return to London. The captured Queen Margaret is paraded through the streets. The same day Henry VI of England is murdered in the Tower of London, eliminating all Lancastrian opposition to the House of York.
* July 14 - Battle of Shelon: The forces of Muscovy defeat the Republic of Novgorod.
* August 9 - Pope Sixtus IV succeeds Pope Paul II, to become the 212th pope.
* August 24 - King Afonso V of Portugal conquers the Moroccan town of Arzila.
* August 29 - The Portuguese occupy Tangier, after its population flees the city.
* October 10 - Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm, Sweden: 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.
* December 21 - The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe are discovered by Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar.[4]

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* Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui of the Inca Empire dies, and is succeeded by his son Topa Inca Yupanqui.
* Moorish exiles from Spain, led by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami, found the city of Chefchaouen in the north of Morocco.
* Marsilio Ficino's translation of the Corpus Hermeticum into Latin, De potestate et sapientia Dei, is published.
* World population reaches 500 million.[5]

## Births

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* April 6 - Margaret of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noblewoman (d. 1503)
* May 21 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer and mathematician (d. 1528)[6]
* July 15 - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
* July 22 - Anthony Kitchin, British bishop (d. 1563)
* July 31 - Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1507)
* August 27 - George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)
* September 8 - William III, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1500)
* October 7 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
* date unknown
* John Forrest, English martyr and friar (d. 1538)
* Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (d. 1513)

## Deaths

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* January 18 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1418)
* 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 Poděbrady, first elected King of Bohemia (b. 1420)
* April 14
* John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (b. 1431)
* Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman, known as "the Kingmaker" (b. 1428)[7]
* May 4 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (in battle) (b. 1453)[8]
* May 6
* Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset (executed) (b. 1438)[9]
* Thomas Tresham, Speaker of the House of Commons
* May 21 - King Henry VI of England (murdered in prison) (b. 1421)[10]
* July 25 - Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (b. 1380)
* July 26 - Pope Paul II (b. 1417)[11]
* August 20 - Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (b. 1413)
* November 8 - Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse (1458–1471) (b. 1438)
* December 17 - Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1397)
* date unknown
* Pachacuti, Inca emperor (b. 1438)
* P'an-Lo T'ou-Ts'iuan, last independent King of Champa
* Shin Sawbu, queen regnant of Hanthawaddy in southern Burma (b. 1394)

## References

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1. ^ Wilks, Ivor (1997). "Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries". In Bakewell, Peter (ed.). Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 1–39.
2. ^ Burne, Alfred (1950). "The Battle of Barnet, April 14th, 1471". The Battlefields of England. London: Methuen and Company. p. 108\. OCLC 3010941. Retrieved February 8, 2009.
3. ^ "English Heritage Battlefield Report: Tewkesbury 1471" (PDF). English Heritage. 1995. pp. 2–3\. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
4. ^ Francisco, Albertino; Agostinho, Nujoma (2011). Exorcising Devils from the Throne: São Tomé and Príncipe in the Chaos of Democratization. Algora. p. 28\. ISBN 9780875868486.
5. ^ World Population 3000 (Top 25 Countries by Population 1000 A.D - 3000 A.D), January 23, 2021, retrieved January 31, 2023
6. ^ Albrecht Dürer; Peter Russell (May 24, 2016). Delphi Complete Works of Albrecht Dürer (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. p. 13\. ISBN 978-1-78656-498-6.
7. ^ Jean Clare-Tighe (June 13, 2017). Loyaulté Me Lie: Loyalty Binds Me. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 20\. ISBN 978-1-78803-348-0.
8. ^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Peerage Limited. 2011. p. 122\. ISBN 978-1-870520-73-7.
9. ^ David Hipshon (2011). Richard III. Routledge. p. 89\. ISBN 978-0-415-46281-5.
10. ^ Geoff Brown (December 15, 2008). The Ends of Kings. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 92\. ISBN 978-1-4456-3143-1.
11. ^ "Paul II | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved August 22, 2020.

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