474 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 474
CDLXXIV
Ab urbe condita 1227
Assyrian calendar 5224
Balinese saka calendar 395–396
Bengali calendar −120 – −119
Berber calendar 1424
Buddhist calendar 1018
Burmese calendar −164
Byzantine calendar 5982–5983
Chinese calendar 癸丑年 (Water Ox)
3171 or 2964
    — to —
甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
3172 or 2965
Coptic calendar 190–191
Discordian calendar 1640
Ethiopian calendar 466–467
Hebrew calendar 4234–4235
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 530–531
 - Shaka Samvat 395–396
 - Kali Yuga 3574–3575
Holocene calendar 10474
Iranian calendar 148 BP – 147 BP
Islamic calendar 153 BH – 152 BH
Javanese calendar 359–360
Julian calendar 474
CDLXXIV
Korean calendar 2807
Minguo calendar 1438 before ROC
民前1438年
Nanakshahi calendar −994
Seleucid era 785/786 AG
Thai solar calendar 1016–1017
Tibetan calendar ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་
(female Water-Ox)
600 or 219 or −553
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་
(male Wood-Tiger)
601 or 220 or −552
Emperor Zeno (474–491)

Year 474 (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 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 7-year-old grandson Leo II, who briefly becomes ruler of the Byzantine Empire.[1]
  • 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. Neither 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 Eastern Emperor.[2]
  • 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 in India (source states the creation date as 1st to 2nd century BCE).


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 – Leo I, Byzantine emperor (b. 401)
  • November 17 – Leo II, Byzantine emperor (b. 467)
  • Theodemir, king of the Ostrogoths (approximate date)

References

  1. ^ Croke, Brian (2021). Roman Emperors in Context. Routledge. pp. 150–151. ISBN 9781000388305. The correct date must be 18 January [...] 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'.
  2. ^ Meijer, Fik (July 31, 2004). Emperors Don't Die in Bed. Routledge. p. 158. ISBN 1-134-38405-X.