1478

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

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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ January 14 - Novgorod surrenders to Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow.

★ January 15 - Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, aged four, is married to five-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 six.

★ 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

Births

★ February 7 - Thomas More, English statesman and humanist (died 1535)

★ March 12 - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1516)

★ May 26 - Pope Clement VII (died 1534)

★ July 22 - King Philip I of Castile (died 1506)

★ August - Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian (died 1557)

★ December 6 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (died 1529)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (died 1555)

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★ Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (died 1553)

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★ Visconte Maggiolo, Italian navigator and cartographer (died 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) (born 1449)

★ April 26 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, son of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (assassinated) (born 1453)

★ June 12 - Ludovico II of Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (born 1412)

★ August 28 - Donato Acciaioli, Italian scholar (born 1428)

★ November 8 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (born 1448)