The widowed Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow, marries Sophia, a Greek princess and niece of the last emperor, in 1472.

Following the marriage, Ivan develops a complicated court ceremonial based on the Byzantine model and begins to use the title of “tsar” (a variation of the word “caesar”).

Still in Nuremberg, Regiomontanus publishes the first printed astronomical textbook, the Theoricae novae Planetarum of his teacher Georg von Peurbach, in 1472.

Prince Casimir has withdrawn from Hungary, Bishop Janus Pannonius had died while fleeing, and Archbishop John Vitéz has been forbidden to leave his see, all within the spoce of five months.

Matthias appoints the Silesian Johann Beckensloer to administer the Archdiocese of Esztergom.

Vitéz dies and Beckensloer will succeed him in a year.

The University of Ingolstad is founded in 1472 with papal approval by Louis the Rich, Duke of Bavaria-Lanshut, with faculties of philosophy, medicine, jurisprudence and theology.

Its first Chancellor is the Bishop of Eichstätt; Its first rector is Christopher Mendel of Steinfels, who will later became bishop of Chiemsee.

The university is modeled after the University of Vienna.

Its chief goal is the propagation of the Christian faith.

Mehmed II captures Konya in 1472 and annexes the city to the Ottoman empire, then drives Uzun Hasan's forces eastward.

Leon Battista Alberti had begun his design for the Church of Sant' Andrea in Mantua, commissioned by Ludovico III Gonzaga, in 1462, employing his characteristic classical correctness, use of monumental mass, and emphasis on geometric relationships.

The building, however, will be finished only three hundred and twenty-eight years later.

Though later changes and expansions will alter Alberti's design, the church is still considered to be one of Alberti's most complete works.

He dies on April 25, 1472.

Vecchietta’s marble and bronze sculpture, such as The Resurrection relief, noticeably displays the influence of Donatello.

An enormous bronze ciborium, created by Vecchietta for the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala between 1467 and 1472, will be moved to the Cathedral of Siena in 1506.

According to Vasari, "This casting, which is admirable, acquired very great fame and repute for him by reason of the proportion and grace that it shows in all its parts; and whosoever observes this work well can see that the design is good, and that the craftsman was a man of judgment and of practiced ability."

Verrochio fulfills commissions from Lorenzo de'Medici for a bronze David (it will be sold to the Signoria of Florence in 1476), and, for the Palazzo Vecchio, a bronze Putto with a Dolphin and the Resurrection in terra cotta relief, all three of which all invite comparison with Donatello in both the choice and interpretation of subject matter.

The elegant detail and finish of the David, standing in a classical contrapposto pose over the severed head of Goliath, reveals Verocchio’s early training as a goldsmith.

In his studied characterization of the warriors' varied reactions in the Resurrection, Verrochio appears to be making a deliberate comment on Donatello's own dramatic reliefs.

Apparently succeeding Donatello as the principal sculptor of the Medici family, Verrochio incorporates an ornate sarcophagus in his first major work for them, the monumental “Medici Tomb” of Piero and Giovanni de'Medici, a virtuoso work of bronze and marble executed in 1472 for the church of San Lorenzo in Florence.

Perugino, born Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci in around 1445, is listed in 1472 among the painters of the Company of Saint Luke in Florence.

(Little is known of his training, although he may have worked with Verrocchio.)

Morocco is in decline when the Berber Wattasid dynasty assumes power, the Marinids having been overthrown in the Moroccan revolt of 1465.

The Wattasid family have been the autonomous governors of the eastern Rif since the late thirteenth century, ruling from their base in Tazouta (near present day Nador).

They had close ties to the sultans of the Marinids, a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Zenata Berber descent, and had provided many of the bureacratic elite.

While the Merinid tried to repel the Portuguese and Spanish invasions and help the kingdom of Granada to resist the Reconquista, the Wattasids had accumulated absolute power through political maneuvering.

When the Marinids became aware of the extent of the conspiracy, they had slaughtered the Wattasids, leaving only Abu Abdellah al-Shaykh Muhammad ben Yehya alive.

He founds the Kingdom of Fez and establishes the dynasty that will be continued by his son, Mohammed al-Burtuqali, in 1504.