1462
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This article is about the year 1462.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1430s 1440s 1450s – 1460s – 1470s 1480s 1490s |
| Years: | 1459 1460 1461 – 1462 – 1463 1464 1465 |
| 1462 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 |
| Art and literature |
| 1462 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1462 MCDLXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2215 |
| Armenian calendar | 911 ԹՎ ՋԺԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6212 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -382–-381 |
| Bengali calendar | 869 |
| Berber calendar | 2412 |
| English Regnal year | 1 Edw. 4 – 2 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2006 |
| Burmese calendar | 824 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6970–6971 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年十二月初一日 (4098/4158-12-1) — to —
壬午年十二月十一日(4099/4159-12-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 1178–1179 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1454–1455 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5222–5223 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1518–1519 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1384–1385 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4563–4564 |
| Holocene calendar | 11462 |
| Iranian calendar | 840–841 |
| Islamic calendar | 866–867 |
| Japanese calendar | Kanshō 3 (寛正3年) |
| Korean calendar | 3795 |
| Minguo calendar | 450 before ROC 民前450年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2005 |
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Year 1462 (MCDLXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- March 27 – Vasili II of Russia dies, and is succeeded by his son Ivan III of Russia.
- June 17 – Vlad III Dracula attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in The Night Attack, forcing Mehmed to retreat from Wallachia.
- September 17 – Thirteen Years' War – Battle of Świecino (Battle of Żarnowiec): The Kingdom of Poland defeats the Teutonic Order.
[edit] Date unknown
- The Jews are expelled from Mainz, Germany.
- Settlers from Portugal begin to settle the Cape Verde islands.
[edit] Births
- January 2 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian artist (d. 1521)
- February 1 – Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (d. 1516)
- June 27 – Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
- date unknown
- Joanna La Beltraneja, princess of Castile (d. 1530)
- Jodocus Badius, Flemish printer (d. 1535)
- probable – Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII of England (d. 1510)
[edit] Deaths
- February 26 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (b. 1408)
- March 27 – Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
- date unknown
- Esen Buqa II, King of Moghulistan
- Niccolo of Lesbos, last Prince of Lesbos
- Dài Jìn, Chinese painter (b. 1388)
