470s

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century – 5th century – 6th century
Decades:	440s 450s 460s – 470s – 480s 490s 500s
Years:	470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

470s: events by year

Contents: 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479

By place

Europe

• Euric, king of the Visigoths, defeats an attempted invasion of Gaul by the Celtic military leader Riothamus.

By place

Western Roman Empire

• Relations between Emperor Anthemius and general Ricimer deteriorate completely. Ricimer proclaims Olybrius emperor, and places Rome, where Anthemius is located, under siege. Anthemius is captured and slain fleeing the city.
• Mount Vesuvius erupts.

By place

Western Roman Empire

• Glycerius is named Emperor.

Europe

• Gundobad becomes king of the Burgundians.

By place

Western Roman Empire

• Julius Nepos becomes western Roman Emperor, deposing Glycerius.

Eastern Roman Empire

• January 18 – Leo II briefly becomes emperor.
• February 9 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor.
• November 17 – The death of Leo II leaves Zeno sole Emperor of the Eastern Empire; his mother-in-law Verina conspires against him.
• Forty-five years of conflict between the Roman Empire and the Vandals end, when the eastern Roman Emperor Zeno's envoys conclude a peace with King Geiseric.

By topic

Art

• A statue of a Standing Buddha from Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India (of the Gupta period) is made. Gupta period. It is now kept at the Sarnath Museum, Sarnath.

By place

Western Roman Empire

• August 28 – Flavius Orestes forces western emperor Julius Nepos to flee and declares his son, Romulus Augustus, to be emperor.
• Euric, king of the Visigoths, returns Provence to Rome in exchange for full independence.

Eastern Roman Empire

• January 9 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee from Constantinople.
• January 12 – Basiliscus is acclaimed emperor in Constantinople.
• April 9 – Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysiste christological position.

Asia

• Bodhidharma travels to China (approximate date).
• Gongju becomes the capital of Baekje, after Baekje loses the Han River valley to Goguryeo.

By topic

Art

• A Bodhisattva (detail of a wall painting in Cave I in Ajanta, Maharashtra, India) of the Gupta period is made (approximate date).

Religion

• The compilation of the Babylonian Talmud, the source of the majority of Jewish Halakha, is completed.

By place

Western Roman Empire

• September 4 – Romulus Augustus, the last traditionally accepted Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed by Odoacer. This event is traditionally regarded as the date of the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of the European Dark Ages.

Eastern Roman Empire

• August – The usurper Basiliscus is deposed and Zeno is restored as Eastern Roman Emperor.

India

• The birth of Aryabhata is traditionally regarded as the beginning of the classical period of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy.

China

• Emperor Xianwen, Retired Emperor of the Chinese/Xianbei Northern Wei dynasty, is murdered by Empress Feng, who then assumes regency over young Emperor Xiaowen

By topic

Religion

• Peter the Fuller is restored as Patriarch of Antioch.

By place

Europe

• Huneric becomes king of Vandals.
• According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Aelle, king of the South Saxons, arrives in England, with his three sons, near Cymenshore.

Asia

• Song Shun Di succeeds Song Hou Fei Di as ruler of the Chinese Liu Song Dynasty.
• Shaolin Temple founded (according to the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks (AD 645) by Dàoxuān, the Shaolin Monastery was built on the north side of Shaoshi, the western peak of Mount Song, one of the four Sacred Mountains of China, by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty in AD 477. Yang Xuanzhi, in the Record of the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang (AD 547), and Li Xian, in the Ming Yitongzhi (AD 1461), concur with Daoxuan's location and attribution. For alternate founding date, see AD 497).
• This year is the earliest date for the oldest known painted depiction of a horse collar, on a cave mural of Dunhuang, China, Northern Wei Dynasty.

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Verina, mother-in-law of emperor Zeno, attempts to kill Isaurian general Illus for turning against Basiliscus, her brother. The revolt is led by her son-in-law Marcian and the Ostrogoth warlord Theodoric Strabo, but Illus again proves his loyalty to Zeno by quashing the revolt.

Asia

• The first Shinto shrines are built in Japan.
• The Song Dynasty ends in China.
• Chinese chronicles record a memorial sent by the "King of Japan" (possibly Emperor Yūryaku), who describes himself as "Supreme Director of Military Affairs in Japan and Korea" to the Court of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Chinese Emperor responds by confirming the Japanese dynasty in those titles. This is the earliest verifiable date in Japanese history.

By place

Asia

• The Song Dynasty ends and the Southern Qi Dynasty begins in southern China. Qi Gao Di is the first ruler of the Qi Dynasty.