1472

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s  1450s  1460s  – 1470s –  1480s  1490s  1500s
Years:	1469 1470 1471 – 1472 – 1473 1474 1475

1472 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

1472 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1472 MCDLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2225
Armenian calendar	921 ԹՎ ՋԻԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-372 – -371
Bengali calendar	879
Berber calendar	2422
Buddhist calendar	2016
Burmese calendar	834
Byzantine calendar	6980 – 6981
Chinese calendar	辛卯年十一月廿一日 (4108/4168-11-21) — to — 壬辰年十二月初二日 (4109/4169-12-2)
Coptic calendar	1188 – 1189
Ethiopian calendar	1464 – 1465
Hebrew calendar	5232 – 5233
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1528 – 1529
- Shaka Samvat	1394 – 1395
- Kali Yuga	4573 – 4574
Holocene calendar	11472
Iranian calendar	850 – 851
Islamic calendar	876 – 877
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 4 (文明4年)
Korean calendar	3805
Thai solar calendar	2015

Year 1472 (MCDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1472

• 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.
• An extensive slave trade begins 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 surviving bank, is founded.
• Leonardo da Vinci is listed as a master in Florence's "Company of Artists".
• Foundation of Kingdom of Fez

Births

• March 28 – Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
• April 5 – Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
• December 10 – Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (d. 1481)
• date unknown
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (d. 1553)
  • Wang Yangming, Chinese neo-Confucian scholar (d. 1529)

Deaths

• March 30 – Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)
• April 25 – Leone Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
• May 30 – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. 1416)
• June 4 – Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (b. 1402)
• July 5 – Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
• November 18 – Basilius Bessarion, titular patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 1403)
• date unknown – Afanasy Nikitin, Russian traveller
• probable
  • Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran
  • Hayne van Ghizeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1445)
  • Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1391)