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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1471''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Julian calendar]].
== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January]] &ndash; Portuguese navigators [[João de Santarém]] and [[Pedro Escobar]] reach the gold-trading centre of [[Elmina]] on the [[Portuguese Gold Coast|Gold Coast]] of west Africa,<ref>{{cite book|last=Wilks|first=Ivor|chapter=Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries|editor1-last=Bakewell|editor1-first=Peter |title=Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas|year=1997|publisher=Ashgate|location=Aldershot|pages=1–39}}</ref> 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]] &ndash; Emperor [[Lê Thánh Tông]] captures the [[Champa]] capital, establishing new regions in middle Vietnam.
* [[March]] &ndash; The [[Yorkist]] King [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]] returns to England to reclaim his throne.
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Battle of Barnet]]: Edward defeats the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] army under [[Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick|Warwick]], who is killed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Burne |first=Alfred |author-link=Alfred Burne |title=The Battlefields of England |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IzwOAAAAQAAJ |access-date=8 February 2009 |year=1950 |publisher=[[Methuen Publishing|Methuen and Company]] |location=London |oclc=3010941 |chapter=The Battle of Barnet, April&nbsp;14th, 1471 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IzwOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA108|page=108 }}</ref>
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Battle of Tewkesbury]]: King Edward defeats a Lancastrian army under [[Margaret of Anjou|Queen Margaret]] and her son, [[Edward of Westminster]] the Prince of Wales, who is killed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/tewkesbury.pdf?1253781010|title=English Heritage Battlefield Report: Tewkesbury 1471|year=1995|publisher=[[English Heritage]]|pages=2–3|access-date=2010-04-24|archive-date=24 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824101110/https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/tewkesbury.pdf?1253781010&1253781010|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; [[Battle of Shelon]]: The forces of [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovy]] defeat the [[Republic of Novgorod]].
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Pope Sixtus IV]] succeeds [[Pope Paul II]], to become the 212th [[pope]].
* [[August 24]] &ndash; King [[Afonso V of Portugal]] conquers the Moroccan town of [[Arzila]].
* [[August 29]] &ndash; The [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] occupy [[Tangier]], after its population flees the city.
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Battle of Brunkeberg]] in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]: The forces of [[Regent]] of [[Sweden]] [[Sten Sture the Elder]], with the help of [[farmer]]s and [[miner]]s, repel an attack by [[Christian I of Denmark|Christian I]], [[King of Denmark]].
* [[December 21]] &ndash; The islands of [[São Tomé and Príncipe]] are discovered by Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Albertino|last1=Francisco|first2=Nujoma|last2=Agostinho|title=Exorcising Devils from the Throne: São Tomé and Príncipe in the Chaos of Democratization|page=28|year=2011|publisher=Algora |isbn=9780875868486}}</ref>
=== 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.</onlyinclude>
* World population reaches 500 million.<ref>{{Citation |title=World Population 3000 (Top 25 Countries by Population 1000 A.D - 3000 A.D) | date=January 23, 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzbA-SkdDPs |language=en |access-date=2023-01-31}}</ref>
== Births ==
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Margaret of Hanau-Münzenberg]], German noblewoman (d. [[1503]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Albrecht Dürer]], German artist, writer and mathematician (d. [[1528]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Albrecht Dürer|author2=Peter Russell|title=Delphi Complete Works of Albrecht Dürer (Illustrated)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_do4DAAAQBAJ&pg=PP13|date=24 May 2016|publisher=Delphi Classics|isbn=978-1-78656-498-6|pages=13}}</ref>
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Eskender]], [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] (d. [[1494]])
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Anthony Kitchin]], British bishop (d. [[1563]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1507]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[George, Duke of Saxony]] (d. [[1539]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[William III, Landgrave of Hesse]] (d. [[1500]])
* [[October 7]] &ndash; King [[Frederick I of Denmark]] and Norway (d. [[1533]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[John Forrest (martyr)|John Forrest]], English martyr and friar (d. [[1538]])
** [[Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk]] (d. [[1513]])
== Deaths ==
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Emperor Go-Hanazono|Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan]] (b. [[1418]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg|Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg]] (b. [[1413]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Jan Rokycana|John of Rokycan]], Archbishop of Prague (b. c. [[1396]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Thomas Malory]], English author (b. c. [[1405]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jean Clare-Tighe|title=Loyaulté Me Lie: Loyalty Binds Me|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpMnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|date=13 June 2017|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-78803-348-0|pages=20}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales]] (in battle) (b. [[1453]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OX8ZN5qFKZgC|year=2011|publisher=Debrett's Peerage Limited|isbn=978-1-870520-73-7|page=122}}</ref>
* [[May 6]]
** [[Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset]] (executed) (b. [[1438]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Hipshon|title=Richard III|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okgqAQAAMAAJ|year=2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-46281-5|page=89}}</ref>
** [[Thomas Tresham (speaker)|Thomas Tresham]], Speaker of the House of Commons
* [[May 21]] &ndash; King [[Henry VI of England]] (murdered in prison) (b. [[1421]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Geoff Brown|title=The Ends of Kings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3yGoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT92|date=15 December 2008|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-3143-1|pages=92}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Thomas à Kempis]], German monk and writer (b. [[1380]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Pope Paul II]] (b. [[1417]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul II {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-II |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Borso d'Este]], Duke of Ferrara (b. [[1413]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse]] (1458–1471) (b. [[1438]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[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 Kingdom|Hanthawaddy]] in southern Burma (b. [[1394]])
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