1472
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s |
| Years: | 1469 1470 1471 – 1472 – 1473 1474 1475 |
| 1472 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
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| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1472 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1472 MCDLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2225 |
| Armenian calendar | 921 ԹՎ ՋԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6222 |
| 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) 4168 or 4108 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4169 or 4109 |
| Coptic calendar | 1188–1189 |
| Discordian calendar | 2638 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1464–1465 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5232–5233 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1528–1529 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1394–1395 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4573–4574 |
| Holocene calendar | 11472 |
| Igbo calendar | 472–473 |
| Iranian calendar | 850–851 |
| Islamic calendar | 876–877 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 4 (文明４年) |
| Julian calendar | 1472 MCDLXXII |
| Korean calendar | 3805 |
| Minguo calendar | 440 before ROC 民前440年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2014–2015 |
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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
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 women.")
Date unknown
- Foundation of the Kingdom of Fez.
- 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".
- 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.
- Volterra, a town in Italy, is sacked by Florentine soldiers.
Births
- March 28 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
- April 5 – Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
- December 10 – 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 – Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)
- April 25 – Leone Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
- May 30 – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. 1416)
- June 4 – Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (b. 1402)
- July 25 – Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
- November 18 – Basilius Bessarion, titular patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 1403)
- 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. 1391)