1478

1478 (MCDLXXVIII) was a common year beginning on a Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• The Medicis crush a conspiracy of the Pazzis in Florence.
• The Great Prince Ivan III of Moscow submits to the republic of Novgorod.
• Sixtus IV Bull introducing the Holy Office in Castile.
• Fernando II de Aragón and Isabel I de Castilla claim the Canary Islands.
• Sent by Paolo di Negro, Cristóbal Colón makes an expedition to the Madeira Islands in search of sugar.
• Establishment of the Holy Inquisition in castilla.
• February 3 - Pragmatic of the Catholic Kings to boost the naval industry in their kingdoms.
• February 18 - George, Duke of Clarence, prosecuted for treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private in the Tower of London.
• May 19 - the battle of Macomer takes place.
• June 24 - Fundación de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria by Juan Rejón.

Science and technology

• The translation of the Fray Bonifacio Ferrer Bible is printed in Valencia.

Births

• Tomás Moro - Men of state and humanist English. (He died in 1535).
• March 16 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer and conqueror (f. 1541)
• May 26 - Pope Clement VII. (He died in 1534).
• 22 July - Philip the Beautiful, Duke of Burgundy (1482-1506) and King of Castile and Leon (1504-1506)
• Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, writer, chronist and Spanish colonizer.
• Juan de Aragón and Castilla, 30 June, heir to the Crown of Castile.
• Girolano Fracastoro, Italian doctor.

Deaths

• February 18 - George de Clarence, noble English.
• April 26 - Juliano de Médici, brother of Lorenzo de Médici. Francisco de Pazzi, the main cause of the Pazzi conspiracy.
• Theodore Gaza, Byzantine humanist.