1462

This article is about the year 1462.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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
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

1462 in other calendars

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

Year 1462 (MCDLXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• 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

• The Jews are expelled from Mainz, Germany.
• Portugal begins to settle the Cape Verde islands with slaves from the coast of Guinea.

Births

• January 2 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian artist (d. 1521)
• February 1 – Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (d. 1516)
• February 21 – Joanna la Beltraneja, princess of Castile (d. 1530)
• June 27 – Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
• date unknown
  • 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 – 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)