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Year 1472 (MCDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday 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.
• 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.
• April 11 – The first printed edition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is published in Foligno.
• 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.
  • (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.
• 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.
• 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; it will reach 100 editions and translations by the end of the century.
• 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)
• April 5 – Bianca Maria Sforza, Pavian-born Holy Roman Empress as consort to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
• April 10 – Margaret of York, English princess (d. 1472)
• 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)
  • 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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

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.
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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