1472 Explained
Year 1472 (MCDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January - December
Undated
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
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
Notes and References
- Book: Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). Guides and Handbooks. 1939. Royal Historical Society. 208.
- banca_mps. 440841275668176896. 2014-03-04. 4 marzo 1472 – 4 marzo 2014 Buon compleanno, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
- Book: Kleinhenz, Christopher. Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia. 1. Routledge. 2004. 0-415-93930-5. 360.
- Web site: 2019-03-20. Leonardo da Vinci: The Master's Master. The Eclectic Light Company. 2022-08-26.
- Web site: York Minster FAQs. 2007-11-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20071116120700/http://www.yorkminster.org/general/faqs/. 2007-11-16.
- Book: Muzaffar Husain. Syed. Syed Saud. Akhtar. B. D.. Usmani. Concise History of Islam. 2011. New Delhi. Vij Books. 978-9381411094. 150.
- Book: Tylenda, Joseph N.. The Imitation of Christ. 1998. Vintage Spiritual Classics. 978-0-375-70018-7. xxvii.
- Book: Creasy, William C.. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: A New Reading of the 1441 Latin Autograph Manuscript. 2007. Mercer University Press. 9780881460971. xi.
- Book: Russell LeRoi Bohr. The Italian Drawings in the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery Collection, Sacramento, California. 1958. University of California, Berkeley. 35.
- Web site: Bianca Maria Sforza, regina dei Romani e imperatrice. Treccani. it. 2022-08-26.
- Book: Sir James Henry Ramsay. Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485). 1892. Clarendon Press. 469.
- Book: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1984. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 978-0-87099-370-1. 101.
- Book: Solitudo: Spaces and Places of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures. 1 June 2018. BRILL. 978-90-04-36743-2. 393.
- Book: The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire. 1907. 103.