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
• 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"
• 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 Bohemia