473

This article is about the year 473. For the number, see 473 (number).

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

473 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

473 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	473 CDLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1226
Assyrian calendar	5223
Bengali calendar	−120
Berber calendar	1423
Buddhist calendar	1017
Burmese calendar	−165
Byzantine calendar	5981–5982
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 3169 or 3109     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3170 or 3110
Coptic calendar	189–190
Discordian calendar	1639
Ethiopian calendar	465–466
Hebrew calendar	4233–4234
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	529–530
- Shaka Samvat	395–396
- Kali Yuga	3574–3575
Holocene calendar	10473
Iranian calendar	149 BP – 148 BP
Islamic calendar	154 BH – 153 BH
Julian calendar	473 CDLXXIII
Korean calendar	2806
Minguo calendar	1439 before ROC 民前1439年
Seleucid era	784/785 AG
Thai solar calendar	1015–1016

Solidus of Emperor Glycerius

Year 473 (CDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (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 1226 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 473 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

• March 3 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Emperor Leo I refuses to recognize him and chooses Julius Nepos as candidate to the Western throne.
• October 25 – Leo I grants his grandson Leo II, age 6, the title of Caesar (approximate date).

Balkans

• Theodoric Strabo signs a peace treaty with Leo I and according to the terms the Goths are paid with an annual tribute of 2,000 pounds of gold. Leo gives him an independent state in Thrace and he obtains the rank of magister militum.
• The Ostrogoths leave Pannonia, migrate to Macedonia and Moesia, from where they ravage the Balkans.

Europe

• King Euric orders the invasion of Italy, but is defeated by Glycerius. The Visigoths withdraw to Gaul, and conquer the cities of Arles and Marseille.
• Gundobad returns to Burgundy where his father Gondioc has died and becomes king of the Burgundians.

Births

• Xiao Zhaoye, Chinese emperor of Southern Qi (known as the Prince of Yulin) (d. 494)

Deaths

• Euthymius the Great, abbot and bishop (b. 377)
• Gondioc, king of Burgundy (approximate date)