1478

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

Decades: 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s

Years: 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 - 1478 - 1479 1480 1481 1482 1483

• 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 after avenging his brother's death
• Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow conquers Novgorod

Births

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

Deaths

• Giuliano de Medici[?] killed in Florence Cathedral