472
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This article is about the year 472. For the number (and other uses), see 472 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 4th century – 5th century – 6th century |
| Decades: | 440s 450s 460s – 470s – 480s 490s 500s |
| Years: | 469 470 471 – 472 – 473 474 475 |
| 472 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 472 CDLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1225 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5222 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1372–-1371 |
| Bengali calendar | -121 |
| Berber calendar | 1422 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1016 |
| Burmese calendar | -166 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5980–5981 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年十二月初五日 (3108/3168-12-5) — to —
壬子年十一月十六日(3109/3169-11-16) |
| Coptic calendar | 188–189 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 464–465 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4232–4233 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 528–529 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 394–395 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3573–3574 |
| Holocene calendar | 10472 |
| Iranian calendar | 150 BP – 149 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 155 BH – 154 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 472 CDLXXII |
| Korean calendar | 2805 |
| Minguo calendar | 1440 before ROC 民前1440年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1015 |
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Year 472 (CDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Festus and Marcianus (or, less frequently, year 1225 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 472 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.
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[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Empire
- The Western Roman Empire enters a period of unrest. Relations between Ricimer, de facto ruler, and emperor Anthemius deteriorates completely. Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia, negotiates a peace agreement.
- Anthemius is besieged in the part of Rome he controls until his troops desert him. He is caught while fleeing the city disguised as a supplicant at the church of Santa Maria in Trastavere, and later beheaded.
- July 11 – Ricimer proclaims Olybrius emperor and dies less than two months later at his palace in malignant fever, vomiting blood. The Burgundian general Gundobad assumes command of the Western army.
- November 2 – Olybrius dies of dropsy after only a reign of four months. During his rule he is mainly interested in religion while the actual power is in the hands of Gundobad.
- Mount Vesuvius erupts. During the volcanic eruption the whole of southern Europe is blanketed by ash.
[edit] Births
- Emilian of Cogolla, Iberic abbot and saint (approximate date)
[edit] Deaths
- July 11 – Anthemius, emperor of the Western Roman Empire
- Ming Di, Chinese emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty (b. 439)
- November 2 – Olybrius, emperor of the Western Roman Empire
- August 18 – Ricimer, de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire
