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Everything about 1478 totally explainedYear 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
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)
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