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Year '''471''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CDLXXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the '''Year of the Consulship of [[Leo I (emperor)|Novus]] and [[Caelius Aconius Probianus|Probianus]]''' (or, less frequently, '''year 1224 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 471 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Basiliscus]], brother-in-law of Emperor [[Leo I (emperor)|Leo I]], returns from exile (see [[468]]) and leads an imperial [[Conspiracy (political)|conspiracy]] against [[Aspar]] (''[[magister militum]]''), helping in his murder at [[Constantinople]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Arnold Hugh Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5W6vCO_pYUC |title=The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 2, AD 395-527 |last2=Martindale |first2=J.R. |last3=Morris |first3=J. |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=1971 |location=Cambridge, England |pages=542 |isbn=978-0-521-20159-9 |access-date=November 8, 2024}}</ref>

==== Britannia ====
* The army of King [[Ceretic Guletic|Ceretic of Strathclyde]] raids the [[Ireland|Irish]] coast, carries off some of [[Saint Patrick]]'s followers, and sells them into [[slavery]] (approximate date).

==== Europe ====
* The [[Visigoths]] under [[Euric]] conquer a large part of the [[Provence]] (Southern [[Gaul]]). The city of [[Clermont-Ferrand]] in [[Auvergne (province)|Auvergne]] is besieged.
* The [[Goths]], led by [[Theodoric Strabo]], revolt in [[Thrace]] after the [[assassination]] of Aspar. Leo I sends Basiliscus to suppress the uprising.   
* [[Theodoric the Great]], age 17, succeeds his father [[Theodemir]] as king of the [[Ostrogoths]], settling his people in lower [[Moesia]] ([[Balkans]]).

==== Asia ====
* The ruler of the nomadic [[Tuoba]] tribal state in [[Northern and southern China|Northern China]] adopts a Chinese surname, and will rule [[Northern Wei]] as [[Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei|Xiao Wen Di]], until his death in [[499]].

=== By topic ===
==== Religion ====
* [[Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople|Acacius]] becomes [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|patriarch of Constantinople]], succeeding [[Gennadius of Constantinople|Gennadius I]].
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== Births ==
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== Deaths ==
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Gennadius of Constantinople|Gennadius I]], [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|patriarch of Constantinople]]
* [[Ardabur (consul 447)|Ardabur]], Roman general and son of Aspar
* [[Aspar]], [[Alans|Alan]] patrician and general (''[[magister militum]]'')
* [[Eudocia (daughter of Valentinian III)|Eudocia]], [[Vandals|Vandal]] queen and daughter of [[Valentinian III]] (approximate date) 
* [[Julius Patricius]], Roman general and son of Aspar (approximate date)

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