Centuries:	14th century - 15th century - 16th century
Decades:	1430s  1440s  1450s  - 1460s -  1470s  1480s  1490s
Years:	1459 1460 1461 - 1462 - 1463 1464 1465

1462 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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1462 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1462 MCDLXII
Ab urbe condita	2215
Armenian calendar	911 ԹՎ ՋԺԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-382 – -381
Berber calendar	2412
Buddhist calendar	2006
Burmese calendar	824
Byzantine calendar	6970 – 6971
Chinese calendar	辛巳年十二月初一日 (4098/4158-12-1) — to — 壬午年十二月十一日 (4099/4159-12-11)
Coptic calendar	1178 – 1179
Ethiopian calendar	1454 – 1455
Hebrew calendar	5222 – 5223
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1517 – 1518
- Shaka Samvat	1384 – 1385
- Kali Yuga	4563 – 4564
Holocene calendar	11462
Iranian calendar	840 – 841
Islamic calendar	866 – 867
Japanese calendar	Kanshō 3 (寛正3年)
Korean calendar	3795
Thai solar calendar	2005
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Year 1462 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1462

• Settlers from Portugal begin to settle the Cape Verde islands.
• March 28 - 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.
• September 17 - Thirteen Years' War - Battle of Świecino (Battle of Żarnowiec): The Kingdom of Poland defeats the Teutonic Order.
• The Jews are expelled from Mainz, Germany.
• Battle of Paarlo, The Netherlands

Births

• January 2 - Piero di Cosimo, Italian artist (d. 1521)
• February 1 - Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (d. 1516)
• June 27 - Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
• date unknown
  • Joanna La Beltraneja, princess of Castile (d. 1530)
  • Jodocus Badius, Flemish printer (d. 1535)
• probable - Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII of England (d. 1510)

Deaths

• February 26 - John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (b. 1408)
• March 27 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
• date unknown
  • Esen Buqa II, King of Moghulistan
  • Niccolo of Lesbos, last Prince of Lesbos
  • Dài Jìn, Chinese painter (b. 1388)