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This article is about the year 1471, not the BT caller ID service accessible by dialling 1-4-7-1.
Events
- 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. This practically destroys the Lancastrian cause.
- May 20 - Henry VI of England is murdered in the Tower of London and Edward IV becomes sole King of England.
- October 10 - Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm. The forces of Regent of Sweden Sten Sture the Elder with help of farmers and miners repel an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
- The Shetland and Orkney islands were ceded to Scotland in lieu of an unpaid dowry.
- First Inca Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui of the Inca Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Tupac Inca Yupanqui.
- Pedro Escobar and João Gomes first visit São Tomé and Principe.
Births
- February 15 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (died 1503)
- May 21 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician (died 1528)
- July 15 - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (died 1494)
- August 27 - George, Duke of Saxony (died 1539)
- October 7 - King Frederick I of Denmark (died 1533)
- October 15 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (died 1526)
- John Forrest, English martyr and friar (died 1538)
- Conradus Mutianus Rufus, German humanist (died 1526)
- Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (died 1513)
- Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (died 1507)
Deaths
- 18 January - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (born 1419)
- 21 February - John of Rokycan, Archbishop of Prague
- 14 March - Thomas Malory, English author
- 14 April - John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (born 1431)
- 14 April - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (born 1428)
- 4 May - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset (executed) (born 1438)
- May - Edward, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (born 1453)
- May - King Henry VI of England (murdered in prison) (born 1421)
- 26 July - Pope Paul II (born 1417)
- Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (born 1380)
- Pachacuti, Inca emperor
- George of Podebrady, first elected King of Bohemia
- Thomas Tresham, Speaker of the House of Commons
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