1472

Events

• Volterra, a town in Italy, is sacked by Florentine soldiers.
• The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, commonly known as York Minster, is declared complete and consecrated.

  Births

• January 17 - Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero and Duke of Urbino
• February 15 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence
• March 28 - Fra Bartolomeo, Italian artist
• April 5 - Bianca Maria Sforza, Holy Roman Empress, married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
• April 10 - Margaret of York, English princess
• May 31 - Érard de La Marck, prince-bishop of Liège
• August 11 - Nikolaus von Schönberg, German Catholic cardinal
• October 19 - John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
• October 31 - Wang Yangming, Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar
• November 24 - Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor of the Florentine school
• December 10 - Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk
• date unknown
• * Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter
• * Alfonsina Orsini, Regent of Florence
• * Barbro Stigsdotter, Swedish noblewoman and heroine

  Deaths

• March 30 - Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy
• April 25 - Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher
• May 24 - Charles de Valois, Duke de Berry, French noble
• May 30 - Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg
• June 4 - Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet
• July 15 - Johann II of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
• July 25 - Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader
• November 18 - Basilios Bessarion, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople
• December 11 - Margaret of York, English princess
• date unknown - Afanasy Nikitin, Russian traveller
• probable
• * Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran
• * Hayne van Ghizeghem, Flemish composer
• * Michelozzo, Italian architect and sculptor