First Age 472

First Age 472 was the four hundred and seventy-second year of the First Age of the Children of Illúvatar. It was sometimes known as the Year of Lamentation because of the events of Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Spring

• Marriage of Huor and Rían.

Midsummer

• The Nírnaeth Arnoediad: deaths of Fingon, Huor, Azaghâl, Hundar and Haldir and capture of Húrin Thalion.
• Turgon succeeds Fingon as High King of the Noldor in Middle-earth.

Late

• Birth of Tuor.
• Death of Glóredhel.
• Death of Rían.