Decades: 420s 430s 440s 450s 460s - 470s - 480s 490s 500s 510s 520s

Years: 469 470 471 472 473 - 474 - 475 476 477 478 479

• Leo II is briefly Byzantine emperor.
• February 9 - Zeno crowned as emperor of the Byzantine Empire; his mother-in-law Verina conspires against him.
• Julius Nepos becomes western Roman Emperor, deposing Glycerius.
• 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.

• Anthemius of Tralles, mathematician (estimated date)

• January 18 - Leo I, Eastern Roman Emperor
• November 17 - Leo II, Eastern Roman Emperor