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This article is about the year 1471. For the
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1-4-7-1 .
Calendar year
Year 1471 (
MCDLXXI ) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–December
January – Portuguese navigators
João de Santarém and
Pedro Escobar reach the gold-trading centre of
Elmina on the
Gold Coast of west Africa.
[1] 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 – Emperor
Lê Thánh Tông captures the
Champa capital, establishing new regions in middle Vietnam.
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.
[2]
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.
[3]
May 21 – 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 –
Battle of Shelon : The forces of
Muscovy defeat the
Republic of Novgorod .
August 9 –
Pope Sixtus IV succeeds
Pope Paul II , to become the 212th
pope .
August 24 – King
Afonso V of Portugal conquers the Moroccan town of
Arzila .
August 29 – The
Portuguese occupy
Tangier , after its population flees the city.
October 10 –
Battle of Brunkeberg in
Stockholm ,
Sweden : The forces of
Regent of
Sweden
Sten Sture the Elder , with the help of
farmers and
miners , repel an attack by
Christian I ,
King of Denmark .
December 21 – The islands of
São Tomé and Príncipe are discovered by Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar.
[4]
Date unknown
Births
Deaths
References
^ Wilks, Ivor (1997). "Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries". In Bakewell, Peter (ed.). Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas . Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 1–39.
^
Burne, Alfred (1950).
"The Battle of Barnet, April 14th, 1471" .
The Battlefields of England . London:
Methuen and Company . p. 108.
OCLC
3010941 . Retrieved February 8, 2009 .
^
"English Heritage Battlefield Report: Tewkesbury 1471" (PDF) .
English Heritage . 1995. pp. 2–3.
Archived (PDF) from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved April 24, 2010 .
^ Francisco, Albertino; Agostinho, Nujoma (2011). Exorcising Devils from the Throne: São Tomé and Príncipe in the Chaos of Democratization . Algora. p. 28.
ISBN
9780875868486 .
^
World Population 3000 (Top 25 Countries by Population 1000 A.D - 3000 A.D) , retrieved January 31, 2023
^ Albrecht Dürer; Peter Russell (May 24, 2016).
Delphi Complete Works of Albrecht Dürer (Illustrated) . Delphi Classics. p. 13.
ISBN
978-1-78656-498-6 .
^ Jean Clare-Tighe (June 13, 2017).
Loyaulté Me Lie: Loyalty Binds Me . Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 20.
ISBN
978-1-78803-348-0 .
^
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage . Debrett's Peerage Limited. 2011. p. 122.
ISBN
978-1-870520-73-7 .
^ David Hipshon (2011).
Richard III . Routledge. p. 89.
ISBN
978-0-415-46281-5 .
^ Geoff Brown (December 15, 2008).
The Ends of Kings . Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 92.
ISBN
978-1-4456-3143-1 .
^
"Paul II | pope" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved August 22, 2020 .