1462
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
Decades: | 1430s 1440s 1450s – 1460s – 1470s 1480s 1490s |
Years: | 1459 1460 1461 – 1462 – 1463 1464 1465 |
1462 by topic |
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Arts and science |
Architecture - Art |
Politics |
State leaders - Sovereign states |
Birth and death categories |
Births - Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments - Disestablishments |
Art and literature |
1462 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1462 MCDLXII |
Ab urbe condita | 2215 |
Armenian calendar | 911 ԹՎ ՋԺԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6212 |
Bengali calendar | 869 |
Berber calendar | 2412 |
English Regnal year | 1 Edw. 4 – 2 Edw. 4 |
Buddhist calendar | 2006 |
Burmese calendar | 824 |
Byzantine calendar | 6970–6971 |
Chinese calendar | 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4158 or 4098 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4159 or 4099 |
Coptic calendar | 1178–1179 |
Discordian calendar | 2628 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1454–1455 |
Hebrew calendar | 5222–5223 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1518–1519 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1384–1385 |
- Kali Yuga | 4563–4564 |
Holocene calendar | 11462 |
Igbo calendar | 462–463 |
Iranian calendar | 840–841 |
Islamic calendar | 866–867 |
Japanese calendar | Kanshō 3 (寛正3年) |
Julian calendar | 1462 MCDLXII |
Korean calendar | 3795 |
Minguo calendar | 450 before ROC 民前450年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2004–2005 |
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Year 1462 (MCDLXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
January–December[edit]
- March 27 – Vasili II of Russia dies, and is succeeded by his son Ivan III of Russia.
- June 17 – Vlad III Dracula attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in The Night Attack, forcing Mehmed to retreat from Wallachia.
- July 1 – Battle of Seckenheim.
- September 17 – Thirteen Years' War – Battle of Świecino (Battle of Żarnowiec): The Kingdom of Poland defeats the Teutonic Order.
- September – Mehmed II captures the town of Mytilene, thus conquering the island of Lesbos, in the Siege of Mytilene
Date unknown[edit]
- The Jews are expelled from Mainz, Germany.
- Portugal begins to settle the Cape Verde islands with slaves from the coast of Guinea.
Births[edit]
- January 2 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian artist (d. 1522)
- January 8 – Walraven II van Brederode, Dutch noble (d. 1531)
- February 1 – Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (d. 1516)
- February 21 – Joanna la Beltraneja, princess of Castile (d. 1530)
- May 19 – Baccio D'Agnolo (d. 1543)
- May 31 – Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1489–1503) (d. 1504)
- June 27 – Louis XII of France, King of France (1498–1515), King of Naples (1501–1504) (d. 1515)
- July 21 – Queen Jeonghyeon, Korean royal consort (d. 1530)
- September 8 – Henry Medwall, first known English vernacular dramatist (d. 1501)
- September 16 – Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher (d. 1525)
- September 26 – Engelbert, Count of Nevers, younger son of John I (d. 1506)
- November 26 – Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz (1489–1514) (d. 1514)
- date unknown
- Jodocus Badius, Flemish printer (d. 1535)
- probable – Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII of England (d. 1510)
Deaths[edit]
- February 26 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (b. 1408)
- March 27 – Vasily II of Moscow, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
- August 26 – Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea
- date unknown
- Esen Buqa II, King of Moghulistan
- Niccolò Gattilusio, last Prince of Lesbos
- Dài Jìn, Chinese painter (b. 1388)