Years: 1468 1469 1470 - 1471 - 1472 1473 1474

Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

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Events

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• 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.

In 1471 Portuguese sailors reached Mina de Ouro on the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) and explored Cape St. Catherine, two degrees south of the equator. Mina de Ouro became the chief center for the gold trade and a major source of revenue for the crown. The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were also discovered in 1471.

Births

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• 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

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• 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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