Editing 1478 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Novgorod]] surrenders to [[Ivan III of Russia|Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow]].
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York]] is married to [[Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk]] in England.
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence]], convicted of [[treason]] against his older brother [[Edward IV of England]], is privately executed in the [[Tower of London]].
* [[April 26]] &ndash; The [[Pazzi family]] attacks [[Lorenzo de' Medici]], and kills his brother [[Giuliano de' Medici|Giuliano]], during [[Solemn Mass|High Mass]] in [[Florence Cathedral]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Pazzi conspiracy {{!}} Italian history |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Pazzi-conspiracy |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 14]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Shkodra]] in Albania begins.
* [[November]] &ndash; [[Eskender]] succeeds his father [[Baeda Maryam I|Baeda Maryam]] as [[Emperor of Ethiopia]], at the age of six.
* [[November 1]] &ndash; The [[Spanish Inquisition]] begins.
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Battle of Giornico]]: Swiss troops defeat the [[Milan]]ese.

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* [[Grand Duchy of Moscow]] devolved from the [[Golden Horde]].
* [[Lorenzo de' Medici]] becomes sole ruler of [[Florence]].
* The [[Demak Sultanate]] gains independence from [[Majapahit]], after a [[Penang Sundaram Wisuta 1478|civil war]].
* The [[Fourth Siege of Krujë]], [[Albania]] by the [[Ottoman Empire]], concludes and results in the town's capture, after the failure of three prior sieges.
* [[Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary|Vladislav II of Bohemia]] makes peace with [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]].
* Possibly the first reference to [[cricket]], in "criquet", as discovered in France by [[Rowland Bowen]] in the 20th century. It has been dismissed by some (most notably [[John Major]]) and presaged with [[Edward II of England|Edward II]]'s "Creag" ([[1300]]) by others.
*  [[Mondino de Liuzzi]]'s ''Anathomia corporis humani'', the first complete published anatomical text, is first printed (in [[Padua]]).</onlyinclude>