1472
| Years: 1469 1470 1471 - 1472 - 1473 1474 1475 | |
| Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s | |
| Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century | |
| 1472 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Gregorian calendar | 1472 MCDLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2225 |
| Armenian calendar | 921 ԹՎ ՋԻԱ |
| Chinese calendar | 4108/4168-11-21 (辛卯年十一月廿一日) — to — 4109/4169-12-2(壬辰年十二月初二日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1464 – 1465 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5232 – 5233 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1527 – 1528 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1394 – 1395 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4573 – 4574 |
| Iranian calendar | 850 – 851 |
| Islamic calendar | 877 – 878 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2015 |
Contents |
Events
- February 20 - Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, due to a defaulted dowry payment
- Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by João Vaz Corte-Real.
- Beginning of extensive slave trade in modern Cameroon, as the Portuguese sail up the Wuori River.
- Fernão do Po claims the central-African islands Bioko and Annobón for Portugal.
- Banca Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena, the world's oldest bank, is founded.
Births
- March 28 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (died 1517)
- April 5 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1510)
- December 10 - Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (died 1481)
- Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (died 1553)
- Wang Yangming, Chinese neo-Confucian scholar (died 1529)
Deaths
- April 25 - Leone Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (born 1404)
- May 30 - Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (born 1416)
- July 5 - Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
- Johannes Bessarion, titular patriarch of Constantinople (born c1403)
- Thomas Boyd, 1st Earl of Arran
- Hayne van Ghizeghem, Flemish composer (born c1445)
- Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1391)
- Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (born 1402)
- Afanasiy Nikitin, Russian traveller
- Amadeus IX of Savoy (born 1435)
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