1472

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

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Events of 1472

Births

Deaths

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.

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''

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★ Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (died 1553)

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★ Wang Yangming, Chinese neo-Confucian scholar (died 1529)

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''

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★ Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran

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★ Hayne van Ghizeghem, Flemish composer (born c1445)

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★ Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1391)