474
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 4th century – 5th century – 6th century |
| Decades: | 440s 450s 460s – 470s – 480s 490s 500s |
| Years: | 471 472 473 – 474 – 475 476 477 |
| 474 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 474 CDLXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1227 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5224 |
| Bengali calendar | −119 |
| Berber calendar | 1424 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1018 |
| Burmese calendar | −164 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5982–5983 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3170 or 3110 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3171 or 3111 |
| Coptic calendar | 190–191 |
| Discordian calendar | 1640 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 466–467 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4234–4235 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 530–531 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 396–397 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3575–3576 |
| Holocene calendar | 10474 |
| Iranian calendar | 148 BP – 147 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 153 BH – 152 BH |
| Julian calendar | 474 CDLXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 2807 |
| Minguo calendar | 1438 before ROC 民前1438年 |
| Seleucid era | 785/786 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1016–1017 |
Emperor Zeno (474–491)
Year 474 (CDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of 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
By place
Roman Empire
- January 18 – Emperor Leo I dies of dysentery at Constantinople after a 17-year reign. He is succeeded by his grandson Leo II who becomes briefly ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- February 9 – Zeno, father of Leo II, is crowned as co-emperor (Augustus). He rules the empire together with his son and stabilises the Eastern frontier.
- June 24 – 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 bishop of Salona. The Senate nor the Gallo-Roman aristocracy decide to resist and Nepos accepts the imperial purple.
- November 17 – Leo II dies of an unknown disease (possibly poisoned by his mother Ariadne) after a reign of 10 months. Zeno becomes sole emperor of the Eastern Empire.
- Winter – Zeno sends an embassy to conclude a peace with king Genseric. He succeeds in an agreement with the Vandals to secure the commercial routes in the Mediterranean.
By topic
Art
- A statue of a Standing Buddha from Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, (during the Gupta period) is made. It is now kept at the Sarnath Museum (India).
Births
- Abraham of Kratia, Christian monk and saint (approximate date)
- Anthemius of Tralles, Greek architect and mathematician (approximate date)
- Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (approximate date)
Deaths
- January 18 – Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
- November 17 – Leo II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 467)
- Theodemir, king of the Ostrogoths (approximate date)
