1478

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
	v; t; e;

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

This article is about the year 1478.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 1478

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

Events [edit]

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.

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