Editing 1472

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1472''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Wednesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[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]]s: "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.<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>
* An extensive [[History of slavery|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]].
* 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>
* [[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.</onlyinclude>
[[Image:Pietro - Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et precipue medicorum - 2989416.tif|thumb|''Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et precipue medicorum'']]

== Births ==
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Guidobaldo da Montefeltro]], Italian condottiero and Duke of Urbino (d. [[1508]])
* [[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]], 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)<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]], prince-bishop of Liège (d. [[1538]])
* [[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>
** [[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; [[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 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 (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; [[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'' 
** [[Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran]]
** [[Hayne van Ghizeghem]], Flemish composer (b. c. [[1445]])
** [[Michelozzo]], Italian architect and sculptor (b. c. [[1396]])

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