1472 Totally Explained

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

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.
An extensive slave trade begins 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".
Fundation of Kingdom of Fez

Births

March 28 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)

April 5 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)

December 10 - Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (d. 1481)

date unknown

Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (d. 1553)
Wang Yangming, Chinese neo-Confucian scholar (d. 1529)

Deaths

March 30 - Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)

April 25 - Leone Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)

May 30 - Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. 1416)

June 4 - Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (b. 1402)

July 5 - Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)

November 18 - Basilius Bessarion, titular patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 1403)

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. 1391)

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