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1472 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1472; MCDLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2225
Armenian calendar	921; ԹՎ ՋԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6222
Balinese saka calendar	1393–1394
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); 4169 or 3962; — to —; 壬辰年 (Water Dragon); 4170 or 3963
Coptic calendar	1188–1189
Discordian calendar	2638
Ethiopian calendar	1464–1465
Hebrew calendar	5232–5233
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1528–1529
- Shaka Samvat	1393–1394
- Kali Yuga	4572–4573
Holocene calendar	11472
Igbo calendar	472–473
Iranian calendar	850–851
Islamic calendar	876–877
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 4; (文明４年)
Javanese calendar	1388–1389
Julian calendar	1472; MCDLXXII
Korean calendar	3805
Minguo calendar	440 before ROC; 民前440年
Nanakshahi calendar	4
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, as a result of a defaulted dowry payment.^[1]
March 4 – A mount of piety is established in Siena (Italy), origin of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest surviving retail bank.^[2]
April 11 – The first printed edition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is published in Foligno.^[3]
June
- 20-year-old Leonardo da Vinci is admitted as a master in his own right to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke in Florence.^[4]
- (approximate date) – Volterra, a town in Italy, is sacked by Florentine soldiers for challenging the power of Lorenzo de' Medici.
July 3 – The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, England, commonly known as York Minster, is declared complete and consecrated.^[5]
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 (unmarried) women.")

Undated

The Kingdom of Fez is founded by the Wattasid dynasty with Sultan Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya as its first ruler.^[6]
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.
Possible discovery of the island of "Bacalao" (perhaps Newfoundland off North America) by João Vaz Corte-Real.
First printing of Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) probably concludes posthumously in Augsburg;^[7] it will reach 100 editions and translations by the end of the century.^[8]
Johannes de Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi (written c. 1230) is first published in Ferrara, the first printed astronomical book.
Pietro d'Abano's medical texts Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur and De venenis eorumque remediis (written before 1315) are first published.

Births

January 17 – Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero and Duke of Urbino (d. 1508)
February 15 – Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
March 28 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)^[9]
April 5 – Bianca Maria Sforza, Pavian-born Holy Roman Empress as consort to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)^[10]
April 10 – Margaret of York, English princess (d. 1472)^[11]
May 31 – Érard de La Marck, prince-bishop of Liège (d. 1538)
August 11 – Nikolaus von Schönberg, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1537)
October 19 – John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d. 1545)
October 31 – Wang Yangming, Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar (d. 1529)
November 24 – Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor of the Florentine school (d. 1528)
December 10 – Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (d. 1481)
date unknown
- Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (d. 1553)^[12]
- Alfonsina Orsini, Regent of Florence (d. 1520)
- Barbro Stigsdotter, Swedish noblewoman and heroine (d. 1528)

Deaths

March 30 – Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)
April 25 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet and philosopher (b. 1404)^[13]
May 24 – Charles de Valois, Duke de Berry, French noble (b. 1446)
May 30 – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. 1416)^[14]
June 4 – Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (b. 1402)
July 15 – Johann II of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1429–1472) (b. 1423)
July 25 – Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
November 18 – Basilios Bessarion, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1403)
December 11 – Margaret of York, English princess (b. 1472)^[11]
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. c. 1396)

References

^ Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1939). Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. p. 208.
^ @banca_mps (March 4, 2014). "4 marzo 1472 – 4 marzo 2014 Buon compleanno, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ Kleinhenz, Christopher (2004). Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Routledge. p. 360. ISBN 0-415-93930-5.
^ "Leonardo da Vinci: The Master's Master". The Eclectic Light Company. March 20, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
^ "York Minster FAQs". Archived from the original on November 16, 2007. Retrieved November 4, 2007.
^ Syed, Muzaffar Husain; Akhtar, Syed Saud; Usmani, B. D. (2011). Concise History of Islam. New Delhi: Vij Books. p. 150. ISBN 978-9381411094.
^ Tylenda, Joseph N. (1998). The Imitation of Christ. Vintage Spiritual Classics. p. xxvii. ISBN 978-0-375-70018-7.
^ Creasy, William C. (2007). The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: A New Reading of the 1441 Latin Autograph Manuscript. Mercer University Press. p. xi. ISBN 9780881460971.
^ Russell LeRoi Bohr (1958). The Italian Drawings in the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery Collection, Sacramento, California. University of California, Berkeley. p. 35.
^ "Bianca Maria Sforza, regina dei Romani e imperatrice" (in Italian). Treccani. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Sir James Henry Ramsay (1892). Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485). Clarendon Press. p. 469.
^ Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1984). The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-87099-370-1.
^ Solitudo: Spaces and Places of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures. BRILL. June 1, 2018. p. 393. ISBN 978-90-04-36743-2.
^ The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire. 1907. p. 103.

[1] Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1939). Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. p. 208.

[2] @banca_mps (March 4, 2014). "4 marzo 1472 – 4 marzo 2014 Buon compleanno, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

[3] Kleinhenz, Christopher (2004). Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Routledge. p. 360. ISBN 0-415-93930-5.

[4] "Leonardo da Vinci: The Master's Master". The Eclectic Light Company. March 20, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2022.

[5] "York Minster FAQs". Archived from the original on November 16, 2007. Retrieved November 4, 2007.

[6] Syed, Muzaffar Husain; Akhtar, Syed Saud; Usmani, B. D. (2011). Concise History of Islam. New Delhi: Vij Books. p. 150. ISBN 978-9381411094.

[7] Tylenda, Joseph N. (1998). The Imitation of Christ. Vintage Spiritual Classics. p. xxvii. ISBN 978-0-375-70018-7.

[8] Creasy, William C. (2007). The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: A New Reading of the 1441 Latin Autograph Manuscript. Mercer University Press. p. xi. ISBN 9780881460971.

[9] Russell LeRoi Bohr (1958). The Italian Drawings in the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery Collection, Sacramento, California. University of California, Berkeley. p. 35.

[10] "Bianca Maria Sforza, regina dei Romani e imperatrice" (in Italian). Treccani. Retrieved August 26, 2022.

[Ramsay1892-11] Sir James Henry Ramsay (1892). Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485). Clarendon Press. p. 469.

[12] Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1984). The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-87099-370-1.

[13] Solitudo: Spaces and Places of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures. BRILL. June 1, 2018. p. 393. ISBN 978-90-04-36743-2.

[14] The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire. 1907. p. 103.

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 === January&ndash;December ===
-* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]] are returned by [[Norway]] to [[Scotland]], due to a defaulted [[dowry]] payment.
+* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]] are returned by [[Norway]] to [[Scotland]], as a result of a defaulted [[dowry]] payment.<ref>{{cite book|author=Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)|title=Guides and Handbooks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tCtnAAAAMAAJ|year=1939|publisher=Royal Historical Society|page=208}}</ref>
+* [[March 4]] &ndash; A [[mount of piety]] is established in [[Siena]] (Italy), origin of [[Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena]], the [[List of oldest banks in continuous operation|world's oldest surviving retail bank]].<ref>{{Cite tweet|user=banca_mps|number=440841275668176896|date=2014-03-04|title=4 marzo 1472 – 4 marzo 2014 Buon compleanno, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena}}</ref>
+* [[April 11]] &ndash; The first printed edition of [[Dante Alighieri]]'s ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' is published in [[Foligno]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Christopher|last=Kleinhenz|title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia|volume=1|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=0-415-93930-5|page=360}}</ref>
+* June
+** 20-year-old [[Leonardo da Vinci]] is admitted as a master in his own right to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke in [[Florence]].<ref>{{cite web|date=2019-03-20|title=Leonardo da Vinci: The Master's Master|work=The Eclectic Light Company|url=https://eclecticlight.co/2019/03/20/leonardo-da-vinci-the-masters-master-1/|accessdate=2022-08-26}}</ref>
+** (approximate date) – [[Volterra]], a town in [[Italy]], is sacked by [[Florence|Florentine]] soldiers for challenging the power of [[Lorenzo de' Medici]].
+* [[July 3]] &ndash; The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in [[York]], England, commonly known as [[York Minster]], is declared complete and consecrated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yorkminster.org/general/faqs/|title=York Minster FAQs|access-date=2007-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116120700/http://www.yorkminster.org/general/faqs/|archive-date=2007-11-16}}</ref>
 * [[December 31]] &ndash; The city council of [[Amsterdam]] prohibits [[Snowball fight|snowball fights]]: "Neymant en moet met sneecluyten werpen nocht maecht noch wijf noch manspersoon." ("No one shall throw with snowballs, neither men nor (unmarried) women.")
-=== Date unknown ===
+=== Undated ===
+* The [[Kingdom of Fez]] is founded by the [[Wattasid dynasty]] with Sultan [[Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya]] as its first ruler.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Muzaffar Husain|last1=Syed|first2=Syed Saud|last2=Akhtar|first3=B. D.|last3=Usmani|title=Concise History of Islam|year=2011|place=New Delhi|publisher=Vij Books|isbn=978-9381411094|page=150}}</ref>
-* Foundation of the [[Kingdom of Fez]].
+* An extensive [[History of slavery|slave trade]] begins in modern [[Cameroon]] as the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] sail up the [[Wouri River]].
-* Possible discovery of [[Bacalao]] (possibly [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], North America) by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]].
-* An extensive [[slave trade]] begins in modern [[Cameroon]], as the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] sail up the [[Wouri River]].
 * [[Fernão do Po]] claims the central-[[Africa]]n islands [[Bioko]] and [[Annobón]] for [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]].
+* Possible discovery of the island of "[[Bacalao (phantom island)|Bacalao]]" (perhaps [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] off North America) by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]].
-* [[Banca Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena]], the world's oldest surviving bank, is founded.
+* First printing of [[Thomas à Kempis]]' ''[[The Imitation of Christ]] (De Imitatione Christi)'' probably concludes posthumously in [[Augsburg]];<ref>{{cite book|last=Tylenda|first=Joseph N.|title=The Imitation of Christ|year=1998|publisher=Vintage Spiritual Classics|isbn=978-0-375-70018-7|page=xxvii}}</ref> it will reach 100 editions and translations by the end of the century.<ref>{{cite book|last=Creasy|first=William C.|title=The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: A New Reading of the 1441 Latin Autograph Manuscript|year=2007|publisher=[[Mercer University Press]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JI7AA0GAbUgC|isbn=9780881460971|page=xi}}</ref>
-* [[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.
+* [[Johannes de Sacrobosco]]'s ''[[De sphaera mundi]]'' (written c. [[1230]]) is first published 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''. [[Image:Pietro - Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et precipue medicorum - 2989416.tif|thumb|''Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et precipue medicorum'']]
+* [[Pietro d'Abano]]'s medical texts ''Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur'' and ''De venenis eorumque remediis'' (written before 1315) are first published.</onlyinclude>
+[[Image:Pietro - Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et precipue medicorum - 2989416.tif|thumb|''Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et precipue medicorum'']]
-</onlyinclude>
-* [[Volterra]], a town in [[Italy]], is sacked by [[Florence|Florentine]] soldiers.
-* The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in [[York]], commonly known as [[York Minster]] was declared complete and consecrated.
 == Births ==
 * [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Guidobaldo da Montefeltro]], Italian condottiero and Duke of Urbino (d. [[1508]])
-* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Fra Bartolomeo]], Italian artist (d. [[1517]])
+* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Piero the Unfortunate|Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici]], ruler of Florence (d. [[1503]])
+* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Fra Bartolomeo]], Italian artist (d. [[1517]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Russell LeRoi Bohr|title=The Italian Drawings in the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery Collection, Sacramento, California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S4dJAQAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|page=35}}</ref>
-* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Bianca Maria Sforza]], wife of [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1510]])
+* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Bianca Maria Sforza]], Pavian-born Holy Roman Empress as consort to [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1510]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bianca-maria-sforza-regina-dei-romani-e-imperatrice_(Dizionario-Biografico)|title=Bianca Maria Sforza, regina dei Romani e imperatrice|publisher=Treccani|language=it|access-date=2022-08-26}}</ref>
-* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Margaret of York (1472)|Margaret of York]], English princess (d. 1472)
+* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Margaret of York (1472)|Margaret of York]], English princess (d. 1472)<ref name="Ramsay1892">{{cite book|author=Sir James Henry Ramsay|title=Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6GkNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA469|year=1892|publisher=Clarendon Press|pages=469}}</ref>
-* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Érard de La Marck]] (d. [[1538]])
-* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Nikolaus von Schönberg]], Catholic cardinal (d. [[1537]])
+* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Érard de La Marck]], prince-bishop of Liège (d. [[1538]])
-* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken]] (1472–1545) (d. [[1545]])
+* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Nikolaus von Schönberg]], German Catholic cardinal (d. [[1537]])
+* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken]] (d. [[1545]])
 * [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Wang Yangming]], Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar (d. [[1529]])
 * [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Pietro Torrigiano]], Italian sculptor of the Florentine school (d. [[1528]])
 * [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk]] (d. [[1481]])
 * ''date unknown''
+** [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]], German painter (d. [[1553]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|title=The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BFRvyS6-49cC&pg=PA101|year=1984|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-0-87099-370-1|pages=101}}</ref>
-** [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]], German painter (d. [[1553]])
 ** [[Alfonsina Orsini]], Regent of Florence (d. [[1520]])
+** [[Barbro Stigsdotter]], Swedish noblewoman and heroine (d. [[1528]])
 == Deaths ==
 * [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy]] (b. [[1435]])
-* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Leone Battista Alberti]], Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. [[1404]])
+* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Leon Battista Alberti]], Italian painter, poet and philosopher (b. [[1404]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Solitudo: Spaces and Places of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmdjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA393|date=1 June 2018|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-36743-2|pages=393}}</ref>
-* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Jacquetta of Luxembourg]], daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. [[1416]])
+* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Charles de Valois, Duke de Berry]], French noble (b. [[1446]])
+* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Jacquetta of Luxembourg]], English duchess, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. [[1416]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_xKAQAAMAAJ|year=1907|page=103}}</ref>
-* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Nezahualcoyotl]], Aztec poet (b. [[1402]])
+* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Nezahualcoyotl (tlatoani)|Nezahualcoyotl]], Aztec poet (b. [[1402]])
+* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Johann II of Nassau-Saarbrücken]], Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1429–1472) (b. [[1423]])
 * [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Charles of Artois, Count of Eu]], French military leader (b. [[1394]])
-* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Basilius Bessarion]], titular patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. [[1403]])
+* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Basilios Bessarion]], [[Latin Patriarch of Constantinople]] (b. [[1403]])
+* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Margaret of York (1472)|Margaret of York]], English princess (b. 1472)<ref name="Ramsay1892"/>
 * ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Afanasy Nikitin]], Russian traveller
 * ''probable''

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