    __notoc__ year 1462 (mcdlxii) was a common year starting on friday (link will display the full calendar) of the julian calendar. == events == === january&ndash;december === * march 27 &ndash; vasili ii of russia dies, and is succeeded by his son ivan iii of russia. * june 17 &ndash; vlad iii dracula attempts to assassinate mehmed ii in the night attack, forcing mehmed to retreat from wallachia. * july 1 &ndash; battle of seckenheim * september 17 &ndash; thirteen years' war &ndash; battle of Åwiecino (battle of Å»arnowiec): the kingdom of poland defeats the teutonic order. === 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 &ndash; piero di cosimo, italian artist (d. 1521) * february 1 &ndash; johannes trithemius, german scholar and cryptographer (d. 1516) * june 27 &ndash; louis xii of france (d. 1515) * date unknown ** joanna la beltraneja, princess of castile (d. 1530) ** jodocus badius, flemish printer (d. 1535) * probable &ndash; edmund dudley, minister of henry vii of england (d. 1510) == deaths == * february 26 &ndash; john de vere, 12th earl of oxford (b. 1408) * march 27 &ndash; vasili ii of russia, grand prince of moscow (b. 1415) * august 26 &ndash; catherine zaccaria, despotess of the morea * date unknown ** esen buqa ii, king of moghulistan ** niccolo of lesbos, last prince of lesbos ** dÃ i jÃ¬n, chinese painter (b. 1388) == references ==  
1462