Editing 1478

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1478''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXVIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== 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.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[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>

== Births ==
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham]] (d. [[1521]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Thomas More]], English statesman and humanist (d. [[1535]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History - Historic Figures: Thomas More (1478 - 1535) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/more_sir_thomas.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=6 May 2019}}</ref>
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Pope Clement VII]] (d. [[1534]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Clement VII {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-VII-pope |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=6 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[John, Prince of Asturias]], Son of [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] and [[Isabella I of Castile]] (d. [[1497]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Louis V, Elector Palatine]] (1508–1544) (d. [[1544]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Gian Giorgio Trissino]] (d. [[1550]])
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Giulio d'Este]], illegitimate son of Italian noble (d. [[1561]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Barbara Jagiellon]], Duchess consort of Saxony and Margravine consort of Meissen (1500–1534) (d. [[1534]])
* [[July 22]] &ndash; King [[Philip I of Castile]] (d. [[1506]])
* [[August]] &ndash; [[Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés]], Spanish historian (d. [[1557]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Baldassare Castiglione]], Italian courtier and writer (d. [[1529]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Jacques Dubois]], French anatomist (d. [[1555]])
** [[Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi]], Italian regent (d. [[1510]])
** [[Girolamo Fracastoro]], Italian physician (d. [[1553]])
** [[Visconte Maggiolo]], Italian navigator and cartographer (d. [[1530]])
** [[Katharina von Zimmern]], Swiss sovereign abbess (d. [[1547]])
* ''probable'' 
** [[Thomas Ashwell]], English composer
** [[Madeleine Lartessuti]], French shipper and banker (d. [[1543]])

== Deaths ==
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Cristoforo della Rovere]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1434]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence]], brother of [[Edward IV of England]] and [[Richard III of England]] (executed) (b. [[1449]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=N. W. James|author2=V. A. James|title=The Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St. Nicholas: The Bede roll|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=55NnAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=London Record Society|page=58}}</ref>
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Giuliano de' Medici]], son of [[Piero di Cosimo de' Medici]] (assassinated) (b. [[1453]])
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua]] (b. [[1412]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Dr Bart Lambert|author2=Dr Katherine Anne Wilson|title=Europe's Rich Fabric: The Consumption, Commercialisation, and Production of Luxury Textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and Neighbouring Territories (Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AD5jCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT63|date=28 January 2016|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4724-0610-1|pages=63}}</ref>
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Yolande of Valois]], Duchess consort of Savoy (b. [[1434]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Donato Acciaioli]], Italian scholar (b. [[1428]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; Emperor [[Baeda Maryam I]] of [[Ethiopia]] (b. [[1448]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Aliodea Morosini]], Venetian dogaressa

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