1472
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| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s
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| Years: | 1469 1470 1471 - 1472 - 1473 1474 1475 |
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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
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Year 1472 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1472
- February 20 - Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, due to a defaulted dowry payment
- Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by João Vaz Corte-Real.
- Beginning of extensive slave trade in modern Cameroon, as the Portuguese sail up the Wuori 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".
[edit] Births
- March 28 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (died 1517)
- April 5 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1510)
- December 10 - Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (died 1481)
- date unknown
- Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (died 1553)
- Wang Yangming, Chinese neo-Confucian scholar (died 1529)
[edit] Deaths
- March 30 - Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (born 1435)
- April 25 - Leone Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (born 1404)
- May 30 - Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (born 1416)
- June 4 - Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (born 1402)
- July 5 - Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
- November 18 - Basilius Bessarion, titular patriarch of Constantinople (born c1403)
- date unknown - Afanasy Nikitin, Russian traveller
- probable
- Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran
- Hayne van Ghizeghem, Flemish composer (born c1445)
- Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1391)af:1472
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