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1472 250px|thumb|January 22: The "Great Comet", observed by astronomers around the world, comes within 6.5 million miles of Earth, the closest approach in modern history of any comet (picture from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle). 1472 Year 1472 (MCDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March January 22 – The Great Comet of 1472 passes within 0.07 astronomical units of Earth (6.507 million miles or 10.472 million km), the closest approach in recorded history for a great cometDavid A. Seargeant The Greatest Comets in History New York Springer 2009 978-0-38709-513-4 February 20 – Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, as a result of a defaulted dowry payment.Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) Guides and Handbooks https://books.google.com/books?id=tCtnAAAAMAAJ 1939 Royal Historical Society 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.banca_mps 440841275668176896 2014-03-04 4 marzo 1472 – 4 marzo 2014 Buon compleanno, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena March 11 – The Great Comet of 1472 is observed from the Earth for the last time as it flies away from Earth in the direction of the constellation of Cetus. April–June April 11 – The first printed edition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is published in Foligno.Christopher Kleinhenz Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia 1 Routledge 2004 0-415-93930-5 360 May 27 – An alliance agreement is signed between Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine, with Charles pledging his daughter, Mary of Burgundy, to marry Nicholas. The agreement comes at the same time that King Ferdinand I of Naples had been negotiating the engagement of Mary of Burgundy to Frederick, prince of Naples.https://books.google.com/books?id=iRxZyGq-IkIC&q=fian%C3%A7ailles+marie+de+bourgogne+nicolas+de+lorraine&pg=PA692 Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Lorraine,Dom Augustin Calmet, Chez Jean-Baptiste Cusson, Nancy, 1728 , pages 892-894 Google livres 29 April 2014 Calmet Augustin May 31 – The Treaty of Prenzlau is signed between Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, and the two Dukes of Pomerania, Eric II and Wartislaw X, surrendering the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin to Albert's control and ending the eight-year-long War of the Succession of Stettin.Ingo Materna, Wolfgang Ribbe, Kurt Adamy, Brandenburgische Geschichte, Akademie Verlag, 1995, p.206, 3-05-002508-5, 978-3-05-002508-7 June 1 – Sophia Palaiologina is married by proxy to the ruler of Russia, Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow, in a ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, with his trusted emissary Ivan Fryazin serving as the proxy.William Miller, Essays on the Latin Orient (Cambridge University Press, 1921) pp. 508–509 June 4 – Shah Suwar, formerly the ruler much of southeastern Turkey as prince of the Beylik of Dulkadir, surrenders to the Egyptian Mamluk General Yashbak min Mahdi after an 11-day siege.Yinanç Refet Dulkadir Beyliği 1989 Turkish Historical Society Press 9751601711 Ankara tr 21676736 He is brought out of the Castle of Zamantu, restrained by a robe with a metal collar with chains and his guards are unable to rescue him. Suwar's older brother, Shah Budak, is returned to the throne of Dulkadir June 16 – Volterra, a town in the Republic of Florence in Italy, surrenders after a siege of 25 days by Florentine soldiers under the command of Federico da Montefeltro. Because the town had rebelled against the power of Lorenzo de' Medici, da Montefeltro allows his soldiers on June 18 to pillage Volterra and to commit rape and murder of its citizens.Cecil H. Clough, The Duchy of Urbino in the Renaissance (Variorum Reprints, 1981) p.136 June – Leonardo da Vinci is admitted as a master in his own right to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke in Florence. An entry is made in the register of the Compagnia di San Luca reading "Anno Domini 1472— Leonardo, son of Ser Piero da Vinci, painter, to pay the sum of 6 sol, for the whole month of June 1472, for the remittance of his debt to the Company until July 1472... and to pay for the whole of November 1472, 5 sol due on 18 October 1472."2019-03-20 Leonardo da Vinci: The Master's Master The Eclectic Light Company https://eclecticlight.co/2019/03/20/leonardo-da-vinci-the-masters-master-1/ 2022-08-26 July–September July 3 – The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, England, commonly known as York Minster, is declared complete and consecrated.http://www.yorkminster.org/general/faqs/ York Minster FAQs 2007-11-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20071116120700/http://www.yorkminster.org/general/faqs/ 2007-11-16 August 19 – King Edward IV summons the members of the English Parliament to assemble at Westminster on October 6. September 11 – The Treaty of Chateaugiron is concluded between King Edward IV of England and the Duchy of Brittany, providing for an English invasion of either Gascony or Normandy by April 1, 1473.J. R. Lander, Government and Community: England, 1450-1509 (Harvard University Press, 1980) p.284 October–December October 6 – King Edward IV of England gives royal assent to the Statute of Westminster 1472 which requires, effective immediately, a tax of four bow staves per every tun (252 wine gallons) of cargo brought in by a ship to an English port.[lKU3AAAAMAAJ 406 Statutes at Large: From Magna Carta to 1800 (Great Britain, 1762)] The Statute is passed to remedy a shortage of yew wood, from which longbows are made, following the issuing of an edict in 1470 requiring compulsory training for soldiers to use the longbow.http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Files/Parish/31/yew_tree_in_Burton.pdf Taxus baccata: The English Yew Tree Eric Bell 2019-04-04 2019-04-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20190404084009/http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Files/Parish/31/yew_tree_in_Burton.pdf dead October 28 – The Catalan Civil War comes to an end as Barcelona surrenders to King Juan II of Aragon with the signing of the Capitulation of Pedralbes by the rebel leader Hugh Roger III of Pallars Sobirà, guaranteeing the rights of the Principality of Catalonia in return for allegiance to the Kingdom of Aragon.Ferran Soldevila, Història de CatalunyaAugust 2025, p.772 November 5 – Duke Nicholas of Lorraine and Duke Charles of Burgundy agree that the engagement between Nicholas and Charles's daughter can be called off without jeopardizing the alliance between the two duchies. 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.") Undated The Kingdom of Fez ruling the modern nation of Morocco, is founded by the Wattasid dynasty with Sultan Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya as its first ruler.Muzaffar Husain Syed Syed Saud Akhtar B. D. Usmani Concise History of Islam 2011 New Delhi Vij Books 978-9381411094 150 An extensive slave trade begins in modern Cameroon as the Portuguese sail up the Wouri River and Fernão do Po claims the central-African islands Bioko and Annobón for Portugal.Bailey Wallys Diffie Boyd C. Shafer George Davison Winius Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580 U of Minnesota Press Minneapolis 1977 978-0-8166-0782-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZtMBLJ7GgC&q=Terra+do+Bacalhao&pg=PA447 The first printing of Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) is made in Augsburg after Kempis's death in 1471Tylenda Joseph N. The Imitation of Christ 1998 Vintage Spiritual Classics 978-0-375-70018-7 xxvii it will reach 100 editions and translations by the end of the century.Creasy William C. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: A New Reading of the 1441 Latin Autograph Manuscript 2007 Mercer University Press https://books.google.com/books?id=JI7AA0GAbUgC 9780881460971 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. thumb|Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et precipue medicorum The possible discovery of the island of "Bacalao" (which some historians believe to have been Newfoundland off North America, 20 years before Christopher Columbus had arrived in the "New World") is made by João Vaz Corte-Real. The suggestion that Corte-Real found lands that he called the "Terras do Bacalhau" (and was granted lands in the Azores by the king of Portugal as a result) will be advanced by Italian writer Gaspar Frutuoso a century later in his work Saudades da Terra, although the reliability of Frutuoso's 1570 book is questioned by later historians because of the book's misinformation on other matters. 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)Russell LeRoi Bohr The Italian Drawings in the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery Collection, Sacramento, California https://books.google.com/books?id=S4dJAQAAMAAJ 1958 University of California, Berkeley 35 April 5 – Bianca Maria Sforza, Pavian-born Holy Roman Empress as consort to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bianca-maria-sforza-regina-dei-romani-e-imperatrice_(Dizionario-Biografico) Bianca Maria Sforza, regina dei Romani e imperatrice Treccani it 2022-08-26 April 10 – Margaret of York, English princess (d. 1472)Sir James Henry Ramsay Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485) https://books.google.com/books?id=6GkNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA469 1892 Clarendon Press 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)Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://books.google.com/books?id=BFRvyS6-49cC&pg=PA101 1984 Metropolitan Museum of Art 978-0-87099-370-1 101 Alfonsina Orsini, Regent of Florence (d. 1520) Barbro Stigsdotter, Swedish noblewoman and heroine (d. 1528) Deaths March 30 – Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435) April 25 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet and philosopher (b. 1404)Solitudo: Spaces and Places of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures https://books.google.com/books?id=qmdjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA393 1 June 2018 BRILL 978-90-04-36743-2 393 May 24 – Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry, French noble (b. 1446) May 30 – Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. 1416)The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_xKAQAAMAAJ 1907 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) References