| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. |
| 1467–1477 | South Asia [political events] | The kingdoms of Jaffna and Kandy in the north and centre of modern Sri Lanka respectively, wrest their independence from the kingdom of Kotte following the death of its king Parakramabahu VI and end its control over the entire island. |
| 1471 | South America [administration] | Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth Inca emperor, abdicates in favour of his son Topa Inca Yupanqui, after seeing his reign transform Tawantisiyu (the Inca state) from being a small principality around Cuzco to the dominant state of the Andes through victories over Chimú and Chacan. |
| 1471 | Annam, Southeast Asia [wars] | Le Thanh-tong, emperor of Dai Viet, starts the annexation of the northern provinces of the Champa kingdom. A 500 kilometre stretch of Annam is conquered and settled southwards from Da Nang to Nha Trang. |
| 14 April 1471 | England [Wars of the Roses (1455–85)] | Having sailed from Burgundy to land at Ravenspur in Holderness, England, on 14 March, King Edward IV of England musters support and enters London, England, capturing Henry VI and annihilating the Lancastrian Neville forces in the fog at Barnet. The Lancastrian leaders, the Earl of Warwick and Lord Montague, die in battle. |
| 21 May 1471 | England [Wars of the Roses (1455–85)] | Richard, duke of Gloucester, brother of King Edward IV of England, defeats an attack on London, England, by the Lancastrian Lord Fauconberg that is aimed at taking Henry VI from confinement in the Tower of London. Edward has Henry executed, thereby extinguishing the Lancastrian dynasty. |
| 21 May 1471 | Germany [births and deaths] | Albrecht Dürer, considered to be the greatest German painter and printmaker of the Renaissance, born in Nuremberg, Germany (–1528). |
| 8 August 1471 | Netherlands [births and deaths] | Thomas à Kempis (original name Thomas Hemerken), theologian to whom the highly influential De imitatione Christi/On the Imitation of Christ is attributed, dies in Agnietenberg, near Zwolle, Netherlands (c. 92). |
| 11 October 1471 | Europe, Muscovy [wars] | Following its defeat by Muscovite forces, the extensive and wealthy republic of Novgorod becomes subject to Ivan III, Grand Duke of Muscovy, and Moscow. The ascendancy in Russia of the principality of Muscovy is established. |
| 26 October 1471 | Papal States, Italy [administration] | Following the death in July of Pope Paul II, the Genoese Francesco della Rovere is elected Pope Sixtus IV. |
