- 1472
Year 1472 was a
leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1472
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February 20 -Orkney andShetland are returned byNorway toScotland , due to a defaulteddowry payment.
* Possible discovery ofBacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) byJoão Vaz Corte-Real .
* An extensiveslave trade begins in modernCameroon , as the Portuguese sail up the Wuori River.
*Fernão do Po claims the central-African islandsBioko andAnnobón forPortugal .
*Banca Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena , the world's oldest surviving bank, is founded.
*Leonardo da Vinci is listed as a master inFlorence 's "Company of Artists".
* Fundation ofKingdom of Fez Births
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March 28 -Fra Bartolommeo , Italian artist (d.1517 )
*April 5 -Bianca Maria Sforza , wife ofMaximilian 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
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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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