1472

• February 20 – Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, as a result of a defaulted dowry payment.{{cite book|author=Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)|title=Guides and Handbooks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tCtnAAAAMAAJ|year=1939|publisher=Royal Historical Society|page=208}}
• March 4 – A mount of piety is established in Siena (Italy), origin of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest surviving retail bank.{{Cite tweet|user=banca_mps|number=440841275668176896|date=2014-03-04|title=4 marzo 1472 – 4 marzo 2014 Buon compleanno, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena}}
• April 11 – The first printed edition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is published in Foligno.{{cite book|first=Christopher|last=Kleinhenz|title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia|volume=1|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=0-415-93930-5|page=360}}
• June
• 20-year-old Leonardo da Vinci is admitted as a master in his own right to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke in Florence.{{cite web|date=2019-03-20|title=Leonardo da Vinci: The Master's Master|work=The Eclectic Light Company|url=https://eclecticlight.co/2019/03/20/leonardo-da-vinci-the-masters-master-1/|accessdate=2022-08-26}}
• (approximate date) – Volterra, a town in Italy, is sacked by Florentine soldiers for challenging the power of Lorenzo de' Medici.
• July 3 – The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, England, commonly known as York Minster, is declared complete and consecrated.{{cite web|url=http://www.yorkminster.org/general/faqs/|title=York Minster FAQs|access-date=2007-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116120700/http://www.yorkminster.org/general/faqs/|archive-date=2007-11-16}}
• December 31 – The city council of Amsterdam prohibits snowball fights: "Neymant en moet met sneecluyten werpen nocht maecht noch wijf noch manspersoon." ("No one shall throw with snowballs, neither men nor (unmarried) women.")

• The Kingdom of Fez is founded by the Wattasid dynasty with Sultan Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya as its first ruler.{{cite book|first1=Muzaffar Husain|last1=Syed|first2=Syed Saud|last2=Akhtar|first3=B. D.|last3=Usmani|title=Concise History of Islam|year=2011|place=New Delhi|publisher=Vij Books|isbn=978-9381411094|page=150}}
• An extensive slave trade begins in modern Cameroon as the Portuguese sail up the Wouri River.
• Fernão do Po claims the central-African islands Bioko and Annobón for Portugal.
• Possible discovery of the island of "Bacalao" (perhaps Newfoundland off North America) by João Vaz Corte-Real.
• First printing of Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) probably concludes posthumously in Augsburg;{{cite book|last=Tylenda|first=Joseph N.|title=The Imitation of Christ|year=1998|publisher=Vintage Spiritual Classics|isbn=978-0-375-70018-7|page=xxvii}} it will reach 100 editions and translations by the end of the century.{{cite book|last=Creasy|first=William C.|title=The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: A New Reading of the 1441 Latin Autograph Manuscript|year=2007|publisher=Mercer University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JI7AA0GAbUgC|isbn=9780881460971|page=xi}}
• Johannes de Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi (written c. 1230) is first published in Ferrara, the first printed astronomical book.
• Pietro d'Abano's medical texts Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur and De venenis eorumque remediis (written before 1315) are first published.

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• 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){{cite book|author=Russell LeRoi Bohr|title=The Italian Drawings in the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery Collection, Sacramento, California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S4dJAQAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|page=35}}
• April 5 – Bianca Maria Sforza, Pavian-born Holy Roman Empress as consort to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510){{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bianca-maria-sforza-regina-dei-romani-e-imperatrice_(Dizionario-Biografico)|title=Bianca Maria Sforza, regina dei Romani e imperatrice|publisher=Treccani|language=it|access-date=2022-08-26}}
• April 10 – Margaret of York, English princess (d. 1472){{cite book|author=Sir James Henry Ramsay|title=Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6GkNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA469|year=1892|publisher=Clarendon Press|pages=469}}
• 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
• Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (d. 1553){{cite book|author=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|title=The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BFRvyS6-49cC&pg=PA101|year=1984|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-0-87099-370-1|pages=101}}
• Alfonsina Orsini, Regent of Florence (d. 1520)
• Barbro Stigsdotter, Swedish noblewoman and heroine (d. 1528)

• March 30 – Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)
• April 25 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet and philosopher (b. 1404){{cite book|title=Solitudo: Spaces and Places of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmdjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA393|date=1 June 2018|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-36743-2|pages=393}}
• 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){{cite book|title=The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_xKAQAAMAAJ|year=1907|page=103}}
• 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)
• 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. c. 1396)

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