- 1478
Year 1478 was a
common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events
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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-oldAnne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk .
*February 18 -George, Duke of Clarence , convicted oftreason against his older brotherEdward IV of England , is privately executed in theTower of London .
*April 26 - ThePazzi attackLorenzo de' Medici , and kill his brother Giuliano, duringHigh Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
*November -Eskender succeeds his father Baeda Maryam asEmperor of Ethiopia at the age of six.
*December 28 -Battle of Giornico : Swiss troops defeat theMilanese .
*Lorenzo de' Medici becomes sole ruler of Florence.
*Vladislav II of Bohemia makes peace withHungary .
* TheInquisition revives inSpain .
* Possibly the first reference to cricket, in "criquet", as discovered inFrance byRowland Bowen in the20th century . It has been dismissed by some (most notablyJohn Major ) and presaged with Edward II's "Creag" (1300 ) by others.Births
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February 7 -Thomas More , English statesman and humanist (d.1535 )
*March 12 -Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici , ruler of Florence (d.1516 )
*May 26 -Pope Clement VII (d.1534 )
*July 22 - KingPhilip 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 composerDeaths
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February 18 -George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence , brother ofEdward IV of England andRichard III of England (executed) (b.1449 )
*April 26 -Giuliano di Piero de' Medici , son ofPiero 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 - EmperorBaeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b.1448 )
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