1472

Events

• February 20 - The Orkneys and Shetlands are annexed to the crown of Scotland
• Discovery of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by Joo Vaz Corte-Real.
• Beginning of extensive slave trade in modern Cameroon, as the Portuguese sail up the Wuori River.
• Ferno do Po claims the central-African islands Bioko and Annobn for Portugal.

Births

• April 5 - Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
• Fra Bartolommeo, Florentine artist.

Deaths

• April 25 - Leone Battista Alberti, artist (* 1404)
• Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet

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