1462

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s
Years:	1459 1460 1461 1462 1463 1464 1465

1462 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1462 MCDLXII
Ab urbe condita	2215
Armenian calendar	911 ԹՎ ՋԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	6212
Balinese saka calendar	1383–1384
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 (Metal Snake) 4159 or 3952     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4160 or 3953
Coptic calendar	1178–1179
Discordian calendar	2628
Ethiopian calendar	1454–1455
Hebrew calendar	5222–5223
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1518–1519
- Shaka Samvat	1383–1384
- Kali Yuga	4562–4563
Holocene calendar	11462
Igbo calendar	462–463
Iranian calendar	840–841
Islamic calendar	866–867
Japanese calendar	Kanshō 3 (寛正３年)
Javanese calendar	1378–1379
Julian calendar	1462 MCDLXII
Korean calendar	3795
Minguo calendar	450 before ROC 民前450年
Nanakshahi calendar	−6
Thai solar calendar	2004–2005
Tibetan calendar	阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1588 or 1207 or 435     — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1589 or 1208 or 436

Year 1462 (MCDLXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

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.
• July 1 – Battle of Seckenheim.
• September 17 – Thirteen Years' War – Battle of Świecino (Battle of Żarnowiec): The Kingdom of Poland defeats the Teutonic Order.
• September – Mehmed II captures the town of Mytilene, thus conquering the island of Lesbos, in the Siege of Mytilene

Date unknown

• The Jews are expelled from Mainz, Germany.
• Portugal begins to settle the Cape Verde islands with slaves from the coast of Guinea.

Births

• January 2 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian artist (d. 1522)
• January 8 – Walraven II van Brederode, Dutch noble (d. 1531)
• February 1 – Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (d. 1516)
• February 21 – Joanna la Beltraneja, princess of Castile (d. 1530)
• May 19 – Baccio D'Agnolo (d. 1543)
• May 31 – Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1489–1503) (d. 1504)
• June 27 – Louis XII of France, King of France (1498–1515), King of Naples (1501–1504) (d. 1515)
• July 21 – Queen Jeonghyeon, Korean royal consort (d. 1530)
• September 8 – Henry Medwall, first known English vernacular dramatist (d. 1501)
• September 16 – Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher (d. 1525)
• September 26 – Engelbert, Count of Nevers, younger son of John I (d. 1506)
• November 26 – Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz (1489–1514) (d. 1514)
• date unknown
  • Jodocus Badius, Flemish printer (d. 1535)
• probable – Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII of England (d. 1510)

Deaths

• February 26 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (b. 1408)
• March 27 – Vasily II of Moscow, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
• August 26 – Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea
• date unknown
  • Esen Buqa II, King of Moghulistan
  • Niccolò Gattilusio, last Prince of Lesbos
  • Dài Jìn, Chinese painter (b. 1388)