1471

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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1471 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1471
MCDLXXI
Ab urbe condita2224
Armenian calendar920
ԹՎ ՋԻ
Assyrian calendar6221
Balinese saka calendar1392–1393
Bengali calendar878
Berber calendar2421
English Regnal year10 Edw. 4  11 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar2015
Burmese calendar833
Byzantine calendar6979–6980
Chinese calendar庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4167 or 4107
     to 
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4168 or 4108
Coptic calendar1187–1188
Discordian calendar2637
Ethiopian calendar1463–1464
Hebrew calendar5231–5232
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1527–1528
 - Shaka Samvat1392–1393
 - Kali Yuga4571–4572
Holocene calendar11471
Igbo calendar471–472
Iranian calendar849–850
Islamic calendar875–876
Japanese calendarBunmei 3
(文明3年)
Javanese calendar1387–1388
Julian calendar1471
MCDLXXI
Korean calendar3804
Minguo calendar441 before ROC
民前441年
Nanakshahi calendar3
Thai solar calendar2013–2014
Tibetan calendar阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
1597 or 1216 or 444
     to 
阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1598 or 1217 or 445

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • 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.
  • March 1 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 Tangiers, 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]

Date unknown

  • 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.

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Deaths

References

  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. p. 28. ISBN 9780875868486.
  5. Albrecht Dürer; Peter Russell (May 24, 2016). Delphi Complete Works of Albrecht Dürer (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-78656-498-6.
  6. Jean Clare-Tighe (June 13, 2017). Loyaulté Me Lie: Loyalty Binds Me. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-78803-348-0.
  7. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Peerage Limited. 2011. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-870520-73-7.
  8. David Hipshon (2011). Richard III. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-415-46281-5.
  9. Geoff Brown (December 15, 2008). The Ends of Kings. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-4456-3143-1.
  10. "Paul II | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
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