1478
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Year 1478 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 14 - Novgorod surrenders to Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow.
• January 15 - Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, aged 4, is married to 5-year-old Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk.
• February 18 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London.
• April 26 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici, and kill his brother Giuliano, during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
• November - Eskender succeeds his father Baeda Maryam as Emperor of Ethiopia at the age of 6.
• December 28 - Battle of Giornico: Swiss troops defeat the Milanese.
• Lorenzo de' Medici becomes sole ruler of Florence.
• Vladislav II of Bohemia makes peace with Hungary.
• The Inquisition revives in Spain.

Births

• February 7 - Thomas More, English statesman and humanist (d. 1535)
• March 12 - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1516)
• April 23 - Bolesław Sołtanowicz, Polish monk, church reformer and theologian (d. 1550)
• May 26 - Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)
• July 22 - King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
• August - Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian (d. 1557)
• December 6 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (d. 1529)
• date unknown
  • Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (d. 1555)
  • Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (d. 1553)
  • Visconte Maggiolo, Italian navigator and cartographer (d. 1530)
• probable - Thomas Ashwell, English composer

Deaths

• February 18 - George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1449)
• April 26 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, son of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (assassinated) (b. 1453)
• June 12 - Ludovico II of Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1412)
• August 28 - Donato Acciaioli, Italian scholar (b. 1428)
• November 8 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)