1472

Year 1472 was a (link will display the full calendar) of the.

Events of 1472

 * - and  are returned by  to, due to a defaulted  payment
 * Possible discovery of (possibly, North America) by.
 * Beginning of extensive in modern, as the  sail up the.
 * claims the central- islands and  for.
 * , the world's oldest surviving bank, is founded.

Births

 * -, Italian artist (died )
 * -, wife of (died )
 * - (died )
 * date unknown
 * , German painter (died )
 * , Chinese neo-Confucian scholar (died )

Deaths

 * - (born )
 * -, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (born )
 * -, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (born )
 * -, Aztec poet (born )
 * -, French military leader (b. )
 * -, titular patriarch of Constantinople (born c)
 * date unknown -, Russian traveller
 * probable
 * , Flemish composer (born c)
 * , Italian architect and sculptor (born )
 * , Italian architect and sculptor (born )