1478

This article is about the year 1478.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s  1450s  1460s  – 1470s –  1480s  1490s  1500s
Years:	1475 1476 1477 – 1478 – 1479 1480 1481

1478 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1478 in poetry

1478 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1478 MCDLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2231
Armenian calendar	927 ԹՎ ՋԻԷ
Assyrian calendar	6228
Bengali calendar	885
Berber calendar	2428
English Regnal year	17 Edw. 4 – 18 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2022
Burmese calendar	840
Byzantine calendar	6986–6987
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4174 or 4114     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4175 or 4115
Coptic calendar	1194–1195
Discordian calendar	2644
Ethiopian calendar	1470–1471
Hebrew calendar	5238–5239
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1534–1535
- Shaka Samvat	1400–1401
- Kali Yuga	4579–4580
Holocene calendar	11478
Igbo calendar	478–479
Iranian calendar	856–857
Islamic calendar	882–883
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 10 (文明１０年)
Julian calendar	1478 MCDLXXVIII
Korean calendar	3811
Minguo calendar	434 before ROC 民前434年
Thai solar calendar	2020–2021

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

Events

January–December

• 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 Florence Cathedral.
• May 14 – Siege of Shkodra begins.
• November – Eskender succeeds his father Baeda Maryam as Emperor of Ethiopia at the age of six.
• November 1 – Start of the Spanish inquisition
• December 28 – Battle of Giornico: Swiss troops defeat the Milanese.

Date unknown

• Lorenzo de' Medici becomes sole ruler of Florence.
• The Fourth Siege of Krujë by the Ottoman Empire of Krujë in Albania concludes and results in the town's capture after the failure of three prior sieges.
• Vladislav II of Bohemia makes peace with 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's "Creag" (1300) by others.
• First printing (in Padua) of Mondino de Liuzzi's Anathomia corporis humani, the first complete published anatomical text.

Births

• 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)
• June 30 – John, Prince of Asturias, Son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (d. 1497)
• 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
  • Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (d. 1555)
  • Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (d. 1553)
  • Visconte Maggiolo, Italian navigator and cartographer (d. 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) (b. 1449)
• April 26 – Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, son of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (assassinated) (b. 1453)
• June 12 – Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1412)
• August 28 – Donato Acciaioli, Italian scholar (b. 1428)
• November 8 – Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)