- 1471
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1-4-7-1 ."Year 1471 was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1471
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March 1 - EmperorLe Thanh Tong captures the Champa Capital, establishing new regions in middle Vietnam.
*March - TheYorkist King Edward IV returns toEngland 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, KingHenry VI of England is murdered, eliminating all Lancastrian opposition.
*July 14 -Battle of Shelon : The forces ofMuscovy defeat theRepublic of Novgorod .
*August 9 -Pope Sixtus IV succeedsPope Paul II as the 212thpope .
*August 29 - KingAfonso V of Portugal conquersTangiers , inMorocco .
*October 10 -Battle of Brunkeberg inStockholm : The forces ofRegent ofSweden Sten Sture the Elder , with the help offarmer s andminer s, 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 theInca Empire dies and is succeeded by his sonTupac Inca Yupanqui .
*Pedro Escobar andJoão Gomes first visitSão Tomé and Principe .
* Portuguese sailors reach Mina de Ouro on the Gold Coast (present-dayGhana ) 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 ofChefchaouen in the north of Morocco.Births
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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 - KingFrederick 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
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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 electedKing of Bohemia (b.1420 )
*April 14
**John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (b.1431 )
**Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick , English kingmaker (b.1428 )
*May 4
**Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset (executed) (b.1438 )
**Edward, Prince of Wales (in battle) (b.1453 )
*May 21 - KingHenry VI of England (murdered in prison) (b.1421 )
*July 25 -Thomas à Kempis , German monk and writer (b.1380 )
*July 26 -Pope Paul II (born1417 )
*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
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