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

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".

Foundation of Kingdom of Fez

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

date unknown

Wang Yangming, Chinese neo-Confucian scholar (d. 1529)

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)

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

date unknown – Afanasy Nikitin, Russian traveller

probable

Hayne van Ghizeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1445)