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1478

Years: 1475 1476 1477 - 1478 - 1479 1480 1481

Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• 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 the Florence Cathedral.
• December 28 - Battle of Giornico - Swiss troops defeat the Milanese.
• Lorenzo de' Medici becomes sole ruler of Florence
• Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow conquers Novgorod
• Vladislav II of Bohemia makes peace with Hungary

Births

• February 7 - Sir Thomas More, statesman and humanist, author of Utopia (d. 1535)
• December 6 - Baldassarre Castiglione, italian writer and diplomat (the author of The Book of the Courtier - d. 1529).
• Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)

Deaths

• February 18 - George, Duke of Clarence, younger brother of Edward IV of England.
• April 26 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici killed in Florence Cathedral

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