1472

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

1472 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1472 MCDLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2225
Armenian calendar	921 ԹՎ ՋԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6222
Balinese saka calendar	1393–1394
Bengali calendar	879
Berber calendar	2422
English Regnal year	11 Edw. 4 – 12 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2016
Burmese calendar	834
Byzantine calendar	6980–6981
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4169 or 3962     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4170 or 3963
Coptic calendar	1188–1189
Discordian calendar	2638
Ethiopian calendar	1464–1465
Hebrew calendar	5232–5233
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1528–1529
- Shaka Samvat	1393–1394
- Kali Yuga	4572–4573
Holocene calendar	11472
Igbo calendar	472–473
Iranian calendar	850–851
Islamic calendar	876–877
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 4 (文明４年)
Javanese calendar	1388–1389
Julian calendar	1472 MCDLXXII
Korean calendar	3805
Minguo calendar	440 before ROC 民前440年
Nanakshahi calendar	4
Thai solar calendar	2014–2015
Tibetan calendar	阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1598 or 1217 or 445     — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 1599 or 1218 or 446

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

Events

January–December

• February 20 – Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, due to a defaulted dowry payment.
• December 31 – The city council of Amsterdam prohibits snowball fights: "Neymant en moet met sneecluyten werpen nocht maecht noch wijf noch manspersoon." ("No one shall throw with snowballs, neither men nor (unmarried) women.")

Date unknown

• The Kingdom of Fez is founded.
• 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 Wouri 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.
• Johannes de Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi (written c. 1230) is first published in Ferrara, the first printed astronomical book.
• Pietro d'Abano's Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur and De venenis eorumque remediis are published.

  

  Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et precipue medicorum

• Volterra, a town in Italy, is sacked by Florentine soldiers.
• The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, commonly known as York Minster, is declared complete and consecrated.

Births

• January 17 – Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero and Duke of Urbino (d. 1508)
• February 15 – Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
• March 28 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
• April 5 – Bianca Maria Sforza, Holy Roman Empress, married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
• April 10 – Margaret of York, English princess (d. 1472)
• May 31 – Érard de La Marck, prince-bishop of Liège (d. 1538)
• August 11 – Nikolaus von Schönberg, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1537)
• October 19 – John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d. 1545)
• October 31 – Wang Yangming, Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar (d. 1529)
• November 24 – Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor of the Florentine school (d. 1528)
• December 10 – Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (d. 1481)
• date unknown
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (d. 1553)
  • Alfonsina Orsini, Regent of Florence (d. 1520)
  • Barbro Stigsdotter, Swedish noblewoman and heroine (d. 1528)

Deaths

• March 30 – Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)
• April 25 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
• May 24 – Charles de Valois, Duke de Berry, French noble (b. 1446)
• May 30 – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. 1416)
• June 4 – Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (b. 1402)
• July 15 – Johann II of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1429–1472) (b. 1423)
• July 25 – Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
• November 18 – Basilios Bessarion, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1403)
• December 11 – Margaret of York, English princess (b. 1472)
• 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. c. 1396)