* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* 1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet ; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.

* 1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick ( b. 1428 )

Albrecht Dürer (; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528 ) was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg.

# Georg " der Bärtige " ( b. Meissen, 27 August 1471 – d. Dresden, 17 April 1539 ).

The Mapuche fought against the Sapa Tupac Inca Yupanqui ( c. 1471 – 1493 ) and his army.

* Eskender ( 1471 – 1494 ), Emperor of Ethiopia sometimes known as Constantine II

Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV ( 1471 – 1484 ) and his nephew Giuliano ( Pope Julius II, 1503 – 1513 ).

* 1421 – King Henry VI of England ( d. 1471 )

* 1417 – Pope Paul II ( d. 1471 )

* 1471 – Piero di Lorenzo de ' Medici, Italian ruler ( d. 1503 )

The Renaissance saw the continuation of interest in magic that had been found in the Mediaeval period, and in this period, there was an increased interest in Hermeticism amongst occultists and ceremonial magicians in Europe, largely fuelled by the 1471 translation of the ancient Corpus hermeticum into Latin by Marsilio Ficino ( 1433 – 1499 ).

George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony ( Meissen, 27 August 1471 – Dresden, 17 April 1539 ), was duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539.

File: Durer selfporitrait. jpg | Albrecht Dürer ( 1471 – 1528 )

* 1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan ( d. 1471 )

* 1471 – Eskender, Ethiopian emperor ( d. 1494 )

The Kalmar Union ( Danish, Norwegian and ; ) is a historiographical term describing a series of personal unions ( 1397 – 1523 ) that intermittently joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden ( then including Finland ), and Norway ( then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and, prior to their transfer to Scotland in 1471, Shetland and Orkney ).

* 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.

* 1538 – John Forrest, English friar and martyr ( b. 1471 )

* 1471 – George of Podebrady, King of Bohemia ( b. 1420 )

* 1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.

* 1453 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales ( d. 1471 )

* 1471 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist ( d. 1526 )

In Eger ( Cheb ) on 11 November 1464 Albert married Zdenka ( Sidonie ), daughter of George of Podebrady, King of Bohemia ; but failed to obtain the Bohemian Crown on the death of George in 1471.

* December 6 – King Henry VI of England ( died 1471 )

In 1471, while King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary led a campaign in Bohemia, the Hungarian nobility conspired against him and called the thirteen years old Casimir to the Kingdom, so he could take over and be crowned.

* April 10 – King Frederick I of Denmark ( b. 1471 )

Edward IV ( 28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483 ) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death.

Henry VI ( 6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471 ) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453.

By the time Margaret, her son and daughter-in-law were ready to follow Warwick back to England, the tables had again turned in favour of the Yorkists, and the Earl was defeated and killed by the returning King Edward IV in the Battle of Barnet on 14 April 1471.

The Earl of Warwick, who had been dispatched by Margaret to England to restore King Henry to the throne, succeeded in this task but was defeated and killed in battle ( battle of Barnet, April 1471 ) a few months later.

After the Battle of Tewkesbury in the Wars of the Roses on 4 May 1471, some of the defeated Lancastrians sought sanctuary in the abbey, but the victorious Yorkists, led by King Edward IV, forced their way into the abbey, and the resulting bloodshed caused the building to be closed for a month until it could be purified and re-consecrated.

* Frederick I of Denmark ( 1471 – 1533 ), King of Denmark and Norway

# Frederick ( 1471 – 1533 ), Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, in Gottorp, later also King of Denmark and Norway

Frederick I of Denmark and Norway ( 7 October 1471 – 10 April 1533 ) was the King of Denmark and Norway.

Neville was subsequently killed in the Battle of Barnet, fighting against King Edward IV in 1471 during the Wars of the Roses.

George of Kunštát and Poděbrady ( 23 April 1420 – 22 March 1471 ), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad (; ), was King of Bohemia ( 1458 – 1471 ).

He died on 22 March 1471 and his followers chose Vladislaus II, the son of the Polish King, as his successor to continue the fight against Matthias.

When King Henry VI regained the throne for a brief period ( 1470 – 1471 ), Tiptoft was captured and beheaded.

* Earl of Huntingdon, 1471 – 1475, created for him but after acquiring the next it was surrendered to the King so the King might be able to give it to the Earl of Pembroke whose title the King wanted for his own son

# Frederick II ( 1413 – 1471 ), Elector of Brandenburg

Frederick II of Brandenburg () ( 19 November 1413 – 10 February 1471 ), nicknamed " the Iron " ( der Eiserne ) and sometimes " Irontooth " ( Eisenzahn ), was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1440 until his abdication in 1470, and was a member of the House of Hohenzollern.

His son Borso received the title of duke for the imperial fiefs of Modena and Reggio from Emperor Frederick III in 1452 ( in which year Girolamo Savonarola was born here ), and in 1471 was made duke of Ferrara by Pope Paul II.

His successors were Leonello ( 1407 – 1450 ) and Borso ( 1413 – 1471 ), who was elevated to Duke of Modena and Reggio by Emperor Frederick III in 1452 and in return received these duchies as imperial fiefs.

* Andreas Baumkirchner ( 1420 – 1471 ), nobleman, leader of an unsuccessful conspiracy against Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor ;

* Frederick I ( 1471 – 1533 ), King of Denmark and Norway

* Frederick I of Denmark ( 1471 – 1533 )

Up to the year of his marriage to Taddea Gonzaga, the daughter of the Count of Novellara ( 1472 ), he had received many marks of favour from Borso d ' Este, duke of Ferrara, having been sent to meet Frederick III ( 1469 ), and afterwards visiting Pope Paul II ( 1471 ) in the train of Borso.

The first two GNR Pacifics, 1470 Great Northern and 1471 Sir Frederick Banbury were introduced in 1922.