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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.
- 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 (d. 1503)
- May 21 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician (d. 1528)
- October 1 - King Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
Deaths
- March 22 - Pope Paul II
- April 14 - Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, "Warwick the Kingmaker" (b. 1428)
- May 4 - Edward, Prince of Wales, only son of King Henry VI
- May 20 - Henry VI King of England
- Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan
- Inca Pachacuti
- Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer (b. 1380)
- George of Podebrady, first elected King of Bohemiaaf:1471
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