Editing 474

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Year '''474''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CDLXXIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of [[Leo II (emperor)|Leo]] without colleague''' (or, less frequently, '''year 1227 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 474 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 ====
* [[January 18]] &ndash; Emperor [[Leo I (emperor)|Leo I]] dies of [[dysentery]] at [[Constantinople]], after a 17-year reign. He is succeeded by his 7-year-old grandson [[Leo II (emperor)|Leo II]], who briefly becomes ruler of the [[Byzantine Empire]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Croke|first=Brian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRgoEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT151|title=Roman Emperors in Context|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2021|pages=150–151|isbn=9781000388305|quote=The correct date must be 18 January [...] [[Theophanes the Confessor|Theophanes]] says merely 'January'. As corroboration for 18 January, [[Cyril of Scythopolis]] notes that [[Euthymius]] died on 20 January 473 and that the emperor Leo I died 'at the end of the first year after the death of the great Euthymius'.}}</ref>
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Zeno (emperor)|Zeno]], father of Leo II, is crowned as co-emperor (''[[Augustus (honorific)|Augustus]]''). He rules the empire together with his son, and stabilises the Eastern frontier. 
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Julius Nepos]] arrives at [[Portus]], and marches on [[Ravenna]]. He forces [[Glycerius]] to abdicate the [[throne]], and proclaims himself emperor of the [[Western Roman Empire]].
* Glycerius is exiled to [[Dalmatia]] ([[Balkans]]) and becomes [[Archbishopric of Split (early medieval)|bishop of Salona]]. Neither the [[Roman Senate|Senate]] nor the [[Gallo-Roman culture|Gallo-Roman]] aristocracy decide to resist, and Nepos accepts the ''[[Tyrian purple|imperial purple]]''. 
* [[November 17]] &ndash; Leo II dies of an unknown disease (possibly [[poison]]ed by his mother [[Ariadne (empress)|Ariadne]]), after a reign of 10 months. Zeno becomes sole Eastern Emperor.<ref>{{cite book|first=Fik|last=Meijer|author-link=Fik Meijer|title=Emperors Don't Die in Bed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uN_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA158|date=31 July 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-134-38405-X|pages=158}}</ref>
* Winter &ndash; Zeno sends an [[Diplomatic mission|embassy]], to conclude a peace with King [[Genseric]]. He succeeds in an agreement with the [[Vandals]], to secure the commercial routes in the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]].

=== By topic ===

==== Art ====
* A statue of a ''Standing Buddha'' from [[Sarnath]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], (during the [[Gupta Empire|Gupta period]]) is made. It is now kept at the [[Sarnath Museum]] in [[India]] (source states the creation date as 1st to 2nd century BCE).
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== Births ==
* [[Abraham of Kratia]], Christian [[monk]], [[saint]] (approximate date)
* [[Anthemius of Tralles]], Greek [[architect]], [[mathematician]] (approximate date)
* [[Clotilde]], Christian wife of [[Clovis I]], ancestress of the succeeding Merovingian kings (Approximate date) (d.[[545]])
* [[Magnus Felix Ennodius]], [[bishop]], Latin [[poet]] (approximate date)

== Deaths ==
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Leo I (emperor)|Leo I]], [[List of Byzantine emperors|Byzantine emperor]] (b. [[401]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Leo II (emperor)|Leo II]], Byzantine emperor (b. [[467]])
* [[Theodemir]], king of the [[Ostrogoths]] (approximate date)

== References ==
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