1478

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

1478 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1478 MCDLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2231
Armenian calendar	927 ԹՎ ՋԻԷ
Assyrian calendar	6228
Balinese saka calendar	1399–1400
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) 4175 or 3968     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4176 or 3969
Coptic calendar	1194–1195
Discordian calendar	2644
Ethiopian calendar	1470–1471
Hebrew calendar	5238–5239
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1534–1535
- Shaka Samvat	1399–1400
- Kali Yuga	4578–4579
Holocene calendar	11478
Igbo calendar	478–479
Iranian calendar	856–857
Islamic calendar	882–883
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 10 (文明１０年)
Javanese calendar	1394–1395
Julian calendar	1478 MCDLXXVIII
Korean calendar	3811
Minguo calendar	434 before ROC 民前434年
Nanakshahi calendar	10
Thai solar calendar	2020–2021
Tibetan calendar	阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1604 or 1223 or 451     — to — 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1605 or 1224 or 452

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, Duke of York, aged four, is married to five-year-old Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk.
• February 18 – 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 – The Pazzi Family attack Lorenzo de' Medici, and kill his brother Giuliano, during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.
• May 14 – The Siege of Shkodra begins.
• November – Eskender succeeds his father Baeda Maryam, as Emperor of Ethiopia, at the age of six.
• November 1 – The Spanish Inquisition begins.
• December 28 – Battle of Giornico: Swiss troops defeat the Milanese.

Date unknown

• Lorenzo de' Medici becomes sole ruler of Florence.
• The Demak Sultanate gains independence from Majapahit, after a 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.
• 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.
• Mondino de Liuzzi's Anathomia corporis humani, the first complete published anatomical text, is first printed (in Padua).

Births

• February 3 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (d. 1521)
• February 7 – Thomas More, English statesman and humanist (d. 1535)
• 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 2 – Louis V, Elector Palatine (1508–1544) (d. 1544)
• July 8 – Gian Giorgio Trissino (d. 1550)
• July 13 – Giulio d'Este, illegitimate son of Italian noble (d. 1561)
• July 15 – Barbara Jagiellon, Duchess consort of Saxony and Margravine consort of Meissen (1500–1534) (d. 1534)
• 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 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 – Cristoforo della Rovere, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1434)
• 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 de' Medici, son of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (assassinated) (b. 1453)
• June 12 – Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1412)
• August 23 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess consort of Savoy (b. 1434)
• August 28 – Donato Acciaioli, Italian scholar (b. 1428)
• November 8 – Emperor Baeda Maryam I of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
• date unknown – Aliodea Morosini, Venetian dogaressa