1472
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 14th century β 15th century β 16th century |
Decades: | 1440s 1450s 1460s β 1470s β 1480s 1490s 1500s |
Years: | 1469 1470 1471 β 1472 β 1473 1474 1475 |
1472 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 |
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Art and literature |
1472 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1472 MCDLXXII |
Ab urbe condita | 2225 |
Armenian calendar | 921 ΤΉΥ ΥΤ»Τ± |
Assyrian calendar | 6222 |
BahΓ‘'Γ calendar | β372 β β371 |
Bengali calendar | 879 |
Berber calendar | 2422 |
English Regnal year | 11 Edw. 4 β 12 Edw. 4 |
Buddhist calendar | 2016 |
Burmese calendar | 834 |
Byzantine calendar | 6980β6981 |
Chinese calendar | θΎε―εΉ΄ (Metal Rabbit) 4168 or 4108 β to β 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4169 or 4109 |
Coptic calendar | 1188β1189 |
Discordian calendar | 2638 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1464β1465 |
Hebrew calendar | 5232β5233 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1528β1529 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1394β1395 |
- Kali Yuga | 4573β4574 |
Holocene calendar | 11472 |
Igbo calendar | 472β473 |
Iranian calendar | 850β851 |
Islamic calendar | 876β877 |
Japanese calendar | Bunmei 4 (ζζοΌεΉ΄) |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | 1472 MCDLXXII |
Korean calendar | 3805 |
Minguo calendar | 440 before ROC ζ°ε440εΉ΄ |
Thai solar calendar | 2015 |
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Year 1472 (MCDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
JanuaryβDecember
- February 20 β Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, due to a defaulted dowry payment.
- December 31 β 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 women").
Date unknown
- Foundation of the Kingdom of Fez.
- Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by JoΓ£o Vaz Corte-Real.
- An extensive slave trade begins in modern Cameroon, as the Portuguese sail up the Wouri River.
- FernΓ£o do Po claims the central-African islands Bioko and AnnobΓ³n 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".
- Publication of Johannes de Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi (written c.1230) in Ferrara, the first printed astronomical book.
- Publication of Pietro d'Abano's Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur and De venenis eorumque remediis.
Births
- March 28 β Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
- April 5 β Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
- December 10 β 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 β Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)
- April 25 β Leone Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
- May 30 β Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. 1416)
- June 4 β Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (b. 1402)
- July 5 β Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
- November 18 β Basilius Bessarion, titular patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 1403)
- date unknown β 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)
References
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