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 in topic:
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1478 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
1478
MCDLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita
2231
Armenian calendar
927
ԹՎ ՋԻԷ
Bahá'í calendar
-366 – -365
Berber calendar
2428
Buddhist calendar
2022
Burmese calendar
840
Byzantine calendar
6986 – 6987
Chinese calendar
丁酉年十一月廿八日
(4114/4174-11-28)
— to —
戊戌年十二月初八日
(4115/4175-12-8)
Coptic calendar
1194 – 1195
Ethiopian calendar
1470 – 1471
Hebrew calendar
5238 – 5239
Hindu calendars
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Vikram Samvat
1533 – 1534
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Shaka Samvat
1400 – 1401
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Kali Yuga
4579 – 4580
Holocene calendar
11478
Iranian calendar
856 – 857
Islamic calendar
882 – 883
Japanese calendar
Bunmei 10
(文明10年)
Korean calendar
3811
Thai solar calendar
2021
Year 1478 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- 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 the Florence Cathedral.
- November - Eskender succeeds his father Baeda Maryam as Emperor of Ethiopia at the age of six.
- December 28 - Battle of Giornico: Swiss troops defeat the Milanese.
- Lorenzo de' Medici becomes sole ruler of Florence.
- Vladislav II of Bohemia makes peace with Hungary.
- The Inquisition revives in Spain.
- 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.
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