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Year '''473''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CDLXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of [[Leo I (emperor)|Leo]] without colleague''' (or, less frequently, '''year 1226 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 473 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 ====
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Gundobad]] (nephew of [[Ricimer]]) nominates [[Glycerius]] as emperor of the [[Western Roman Empire]]. Emperor [[Leo I (emperor)|Leo I]] refuses to  recognize him, and chooses [[Julius Nepos]] as candidate to the Western [[throne]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hughes |first=Ian |title= Patricians and Emperors: The Last Rulers of the Western Roman Empire |publisher=[[Pen & Sword Books]] |location=Barnsley, England |publication-date=September 30, 2015}}</ref>
* [[October 25]] &ndash; Leo I grants his grandson [[Leo II (emperor)|Leo II]], age 6, the title of ''[[Caesar (title)|Caesar]]'' (approximate date).

==== Balkans ====
* [[Theodoric Strabo]] signs a [[peace treaty]] with Leo I, and according to the terms the [[Goths]] are paid with an annual [[tribute]] of 2,000 pounds of [[gold]]. Leo gives him an independent state in [[Thrace]] and he obtains the rank of ''[[magister militum]]''.
* The [[Ostrogoths]] leave [[Pannonia (Roman province)|Pannonia]], and [[Migration (human)|migrate]] to [[Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]] and [[Moesia]], from whence they ravage the [[Balkans]].

==== Europe ====
* King [[Euric]] orders the invasion of [[Italy]], but is defeated by Glycerius. The [[Visigoths]] withdraw to [[Gaul]], and conquer the cities of [[Arles]] and [[Marseille]].
* Gundobad returns to [[Kingdom of Burgundy|Burgundy]], where his father [[Gondioc]] has died, and becomes king of the [[Burgundians]].
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== Births ==
* [[Xiao Zhaoye]], Chinese emperor of [[Southern Qi]] (known as the '''Prince of Yulin''') (d. [[494]])
* [[Kavad I]], king ([[shah]]) of the [[Sasanian Empire]] from 488 to 531, with an interruption of two years

== Deaths ==
* [[Euthymius the Great]], [[abbot]] and [[bishop]] (b. [[377]]) 
* [[Gondioc]], king of [[Kingdom of Burgundy|Burgundy]] (approximate date)

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