1472

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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

Template:C15YearInTopicX 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.

[edit] Births

• March 28 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (died 1517)
• April 5 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I (died 1510)
• December 10 - Anne de Mowbray (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 (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, French military leader (b. 1394)
• November 18 - Basilius Bessarion, titular patriarch of Constantinople (born c1403)
• date unknown - Afanasy Nikitin, Russian traveller
• probable
  • Thomas Boyd
  • Hayne van Ghizeghem, Flemish composer (born c1445)
  • Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1391)

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