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Calendar overview 1472
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| 1472 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 920/921 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1464/65 |
| Aztec calendar | 5th tubes - Macuilli Acatl (until the end of January / beginning of February: 4th rabbit - Nahui Tochtli ) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2015/16 (southern Buddhism); 2014/15 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 69th (70th) cycle
Year of the water dragon壬辰 ( at the beginning of the year metal rabbit 辛卯) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 834/835 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 850/851 |
| Islamic calendar | 876/877 (turn of the year June 7th / 8th) |
| Jewish calendar | 5232/33 (September 2/3) |
| Coptic calendar | 1188/89 |
| Malayalam calendar | 647/648 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1782/83 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1783/84 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 1510 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1528/29 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Voyages of discovery
- January 1st : The Portuguese sailors João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar reach the island of Annobón in the Gulf of Guinea near the equator . On January 17th they reach today's Príncipe Island , which they initially baptize São Antão . The two travel on behalf of the merchant Fernão Gomes , who has acquired the right from the Portuguese King Alfons V to explore 100 leguas of the African coast annually in the name of the Portuguese crown, but at his own expense.
Holy Roman Empire
- The most Rhein famous sites Linz , Unkel , Erpel , Honnef , Königswinter , Oberkassel , Leutesdorf , Upper and Lower Hammerstein and Hönningen , Remagen and Mehlem close the Linzer Eintracht . The alliance provides for mutual support in the event of war or disaster.
Byzantine Empire / Grand Duchy of Moscow
- The Moscow Grand Duke Ivan III. marries the Byzantine princess Zoe through the Pope's mediation . The bridal procession sets off from Rome on July 24th and contains, among other things, Greek representatives from the Sofias brothers and a legacy from the Pope. They reach Pskov on October 11th and stay there for seven days before moving on to Novgorod , which they reach on October 25th . On October 30th, the bridal procession continues towards Moscow . Shortly before Moscow, an incident occurs: The Pope's legacy carries a Latin cross in front of him, which Metropolitan Philip ultimately forbids. The entourage moves into the city on November 12th . The Moscow metropolitan trusts Ivan III. and Zoe after the Orthodox ceremony in the wooden Church of the Assumption of Mary. Then Zoe changes her name to Sophia .
economy
- November 25th : The Solingen swordsmiths receive a guild privilege: This becomes the basis of the later world-famous Solingen weapons .
- In Siena the later bank Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena as a pawnshop Monte di Pietà founded. Today it is the oldest bank in the world still in existence.
Market square in Pirna with the church of St. Mary, the Canaletto house and on the right house no. 10, 1472–1686 seat of the iron chamber
- In the Electorate of Saxony is Eisenkammer Pirna founded, whose job it is to drive or within their jurisdiction, the so-called iron Pirnaer area, iron products obtained allot. It is based in the house on Markt 10, today's town hall, in the old town .
science and technology
- Duke Ludwig the Rich of Lower Bavaria founds the University of Ingolstadt , later the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , in Ingolstadt with papal approval, the so-called privilege , as the first Bavarian university . It will be set up with four faculties in the so-called beneficiary house.
Culture
- The Schwabach script is probably used for the first time by Johann Bämler in an Augsburg cradle print .
society
nature and environment
- The Great Comet C / 1471 Y1 has been visible to the naked eye worldwide since the end of the previous year .
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 17 : Guidobaldo I da Montefeltro , Duke of Urbino († 1508 )
- February 15 : Piero di Lorenzo de 'Medici , ruler of Florence († 1503 )
- March 28 : Fra Bartolommeo , painter of the Florentine School († 1517 )
- April 5 : Bianca Maria Sforza , Archduchess of Austria and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire († 1510 )
- May 16 : Juan Pardo de Tavera , Archbishop of Toledo and Spanish Grand Inquisitor († 1545 )
- May 31 : Erard de La Marck , Prince-Bishop of Liège, Bishop of Chartres and Archbishop of Valencia († 1538 )
- June 14 : Jakob Feer , Lucerne patrician († 1541 )
- August 11 : Nikolaus von Schönberg , Archbishop of Capua and envoy of the Pope († 1537 )
- October 1 : Filippo Beroaldo the Younger , Italian philologist, poet and librarian († 1518 )
- October 4 (uncertain): Lucas Cranach the Elder , German painter and graphic artist († 1553 )
- October 20 : Johann Ludwig , Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken († 1545 )
- November 24th : Pietro Torrigiano , Florentine sculptor and medalist († 1528 )
- December 10 : Anne Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk , English noblewoman († 1481 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Johann Böschenstein , German Hebrew, hymn poet and mathematician († 1540 )
- Erich II of Saxony-Lauenburg , Bishop of Hildesheim and Münster († 1522 )
- Hans Gallizian , Basel entrepreneur and councilor († 1524 )
- Alfonsina Orsini , Italian nobleman and city mistress of Florence († 1520 )
- Raffaele Petrucci , Italian cardinal and governor of Siena († 1522 )
- Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk , English nobleman and aspirant to the throne († 1513 )
- Ramathibodi II , ruler of the Siamese kingdom of Ayutthaya († 1529 )
- Pedro Luis de Borja Llançol de Romaní , Archbishop of Valencia († 1511 )
- Wang Shouren , Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher († 1529 )
Born around 1472
- Piers Edgcumbe , English nobleman, politician and military man († 1539 )
- Albrecht van Loo , Dutch politician († 1525 )
- Diego Méndez , Spanish navigator and conquistador († 1536 )
- Christoph Schappeler , St. Gallen Reformed theologian and peasant leader († 1551 )
- 1472/ 73 : Heinrich Bebel , German Humanist († 1518 )
- 1472/ 75 : Martin Waldseemuller , German cartographer († 1520 )
Died
First half of the year
- January 9 : Hans Pleydenwurff , German painter (* around 1420 )
- March 30th : Amadeus IX. , Duke of Savoy (* 1435 )
- April 25 : Leon Battista Alberti , Italian architect and humanist (* 1404 )
- May 24th : Charles de Valois, duc de Berry , French nobleman (* 1446 )
- May 30th : Jacquetta of Luxembourg , English noblewoman (* around 1415 )
- June 4 : Nezahualcóyotl , ruler in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (* 1402 )
- June 21 : John III. von Asel , Bishop of Verden (* 1380 )
- June 24th : Barbara von Bayern , Bavarian nobleman and Poor Clare in Munich (* 1454 )
Second half of the year
- July 6 : Battista Sforza , Duchess of Urbino (* around 1446 )
- July 25th : Gaston IV. , Count of Foix and Bigorre, Vice-Count of Béarn, Marsan, and Castelbon and Co-Lord of Andorra, also Vice-Count of Narbonne (* 1423 )
- July 25th : Johann III. , Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (* 1423 )
- August 9 : Johann Vitez , Croatian humanist, Bishop of Großwardein and Archbishop of Gran (* 1408 )
- August: Gregor Heimburg , German humanist and statesman
- September 11 : Giovanni Arnolfini , Italian merchant (* around 1400 )
- October 7 : Michelozzo di Bartolommeo , Florentine sculptor and architect (* 1396 )
- November 8th : Johann II von Rosenberg , Bohemian nobleman from the Rosenberg family, captain in Silesia and highest Bohemian chamberlain (* 1434 )
- November 18 : Bessarion , Byzantine theologian and humanist, cardinal and (titular) patriarch of Constantinople and Greek scholar (* 1403 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Henry FitzHugh, 5th Baron FitzHugh , English nobleman (* 1429 )
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