* 1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.

* October 21 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England ( d. 1478 )

George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Warwick, KG ( 21 October 1449 – 18 February 1478 ) was the third son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of kings Edward IV and Richard III.

Her brother, the Duke of Clarence, had been executed by Edward IV in 1478 ; Edward himself had died of illness in 1483 and finally, her younger brother Richard, who took the throne as Richard III was in 1485 killed at the Battle of Bosworth by the leader of the House of Lancaster, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, a cousin and nephew of Henry VI, who went on to become Henry VII, and to marry the daughter of Edward IV, Elizabeth of York.

Stillington had risen high in Edward IV's favour, but had been briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1478 at the same time as George, Duke of Clarence.

Malmsey is associated in English history with the death of George, Duke of Clarence, brother of King Edward IV, who was executed in 1478 for plotting treason against his brother.

# George, Duke of Clarence ( 21 October 1449 – 18 February 1478 ).

In 1478, the continued trouble caused by Clarence caused him to be executed in the Tower of London, popularly he is thought to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine.

# George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence ( 21 October 1449 – 18 February 1478 ).

In England, those executed after the passing of attainders include George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence ( 1478 ), Thomas Cromwell ( 1540 ), Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ( 1540 ), Catherine Howard ( 1542 ), Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley ( 1549 ), Thomas Howard ( 1572 ), Thomas Wentworth ( 1641 ), Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud ( 1645 ), and the Duke of Monmouth.

* George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence ( 1449 – 1478 ), third son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and brother to Edward IV and Richard III, was executed for treason in 1478, at which point all of his honours were forfeit.

In 1478, Stillington spent some weeks in prison, apparently as a result of some association with the disgraced George, Duke of Clarence.

* The Duke of Buckingham, at the trial of The Duke of Clarence, 1478

When the Duke of Clarence was executed in 1478 for treason ( supposedly by being drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine ), the title was forfeit.

Ankarette's grandson Roger Twynyho received from Edward IV a full retrospective pardon for Ankarette, and the petition he submitted to the king in 1478 describes fully the circumstances of the case, well illustrating the quasi-kingly high-handedness of Clarence which was ultimately not tolerated by the king:

The town church was built between 1471 and 1478.

Albania was fully re-occupied by the Ottomans in 1478.

In the 15th century Ptolemy's Geographia began to be printed with engraved maps ; the earliest printed edition with engraved maps was produced in Bologna in 1477, followed quickly by a Roman edition in 1478 ( Campbell, 1987 ).

In his territorial aggrandizement of the Papal States, Sixtus IV's niece's son Cardinal Raffaele Riario, for whom the Palazzo della Cancelleria was constructed, was a leader in the failed " Pazzi conspiracy " of 1478 to assassinate both Lorenzo de ' Medici and his brother Giuliano and replace them in Florence with Sixtus IV's other nephew, Girolamo Riario.

On 1 November 1478, Sixtus published the Papal bull Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus, through which the Spanish Inquisition was established in the Kingdom of Castile.

Born in Milk Street in London on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More, a successful lawyer, and his wife Agnes ( née Graunger ).

His treatise, De Medicina, was the first medical book printed in 1478 following the invention of the movable-type printing press.

In 1478 Braniewo ( Braunsberg ) withstood a Polish siege which was ended in an agreement in which the Polish king recognized von Tüngen as bishop and the right of the Cathedral Chapter to elect future bishops, which however would have to be accepted by the king, and the bishop as well as Cathedral Chapter swore an oath to the Polish king.

Year 1478 ( MCDLXXVIII ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

He was made canon of Sarum in 1458, rector of St. Dunstan's ( in the West ), archdeacon of Winchester in 1474, canon of Wells from 1475 to 1478 and archdeacon of Berkshire in 1476.

After serving a short spell in 1478 as Archdeacon of Leicester he was appointed Bishop of Ely by King Edward on 8 August 1479 and he was consecrated on 31 January 1479.

There was a conspiracy in 1478 to kill Lorenzo with his brother Giuliano during Easter services, the assassination attempt ending with the death of Giuliano and an injured Lorenzo ( later Giuliano and Lorenzo were buried together in the Medici Chapel ).

Ferdinand and Isabella, in 1478 compelled him to sign the Treaty of Alcántara, by which Joanna was relegated to a convent.

Estêvão da Gama was appointed alcaide-mór ( civil governor ) of Sines in the 1460s, a post he held until 1478, and continued as a receiver of taxes and holder of the Order's commendas in the region.

However, in February 1468, Platina was again imprisoned on the charge of having participated in a conspiracy against the Pope, and was tortured along with other abbreviators, such as Filip Callimachus, who fled to Poland in 1478, all of whom had been accused of pagan views.

The first book printed in Oxford, in 1478, an edition of Rufinus's Expositio in symbolum apostolorum, was printed by another, anonymous, printer.

) Following his conviction, he was " privately executed " at the Tower on 18 February 1478, and the tradition grew up that he was drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine.

In that occasion, his wife received by the pope the authorization to found a university in Copenhagen, which would be created in 1478 or 1479.

So far, the historical evidence of following Raikas have been discovered ; Niranjan Malldev ( Founder of Doti Kingdom ), Nagi Malla ( 1238 AD ), Ripu Malla ( 1279 AD ), Nirai Pal ( 1353 AD may be of Askot and his historical evidence of 1354 A. D has been found in Almoda ), Nag Malla ( 1384 AD ), Dhir Malla ( 1400 AD ), Ripu Malla ( 1410 AD ), Anand Malla ( 1430 AD ), Balinarayan Malla ( not known ), Sansar Malla ( 1442 AD ), Kalyan Malla ( 1443 AD ), Suratan Malla ( 1478 AD ), Kriti Malla ( 1482 AD ), Prithivi Malla ( 1488 AD ), Medini Jay Malla ( 1512 AD ), Ashok Malla ( 1517 AD ), Raj Malla ( 1539 AD ), Arjun Malla / Shahi ( not known but he was ruling Sira as Malla and Doti as Shahi ), Bhupati Malla / Shahi ( 1558 AD ), Sagaram Shahi ( 1567 AD ), Hari Malla / Shahi ( 1581 AD Last Raikas King of Sira and adjoining part of Nepal ), Rudra Shahi ( 1630 AD ), Vikram shahi ( 1642 AD ), Mandhat shahi ( 1671 AD ), Raghunath shahi ( 1690 AD ), Hari shahi ( 1720 AD ), Krishna Shahi ( 1760 AD ), Deep shahi ( 1785 AD ), Prithivi pati Shahi ( 1790 AD, ' he had fought against Nepali ruler with British in 1814 AD ')

The Kastrioti's coat of arms, depicting a double-headed eagle on a red field, became famous when he led a revolt against the Ottoman Empire that resulted in brief independence for some regions of Albania from 1443 to 1478.

In 1478 he allied himself with Pope Sixtus IV against Lorenzo de ' Medici, but the latter journeyed alone to Naples where he succeeded in negotiating an honourable peace with Ferdinand.

The Duke forfeited his title in 1478, after he had been convicted of treason against his brother.

Primary source in respect of the Christian atrocities against the Jewish community living in Passau, Bavaria, in 1478.

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The first mention of Amba Alagi is in the Chronicle of Emperor Baeda Maryam ( 1468 – 1478 ), who personally led an expedition against the Dobe ' a, who lived around Amba Alagi and raided the caravan routes.

The League of Lezha, Skanderbeg, and subsequent leaders in Albania fought the following 26 battles against the Ottoman Empire in 35 years ( 1443 – 1478 ):

He died at Milan in 1478, when on his way to Paris to ask the aid of Louis XI on behalf of the Florentines against Pope Sixtus IV.

In 1478 he supported the Florentines against Pope Sixtus IV's expansionism.

John was born in Seville in 1478 to the sovereigns of Castile, Isabella I and Ferdinand V. At the time, his parents were involved in the War of Castilian Succession against Isabella's niece Joanna la Beltraneja, wife of King Afonso V of Portugal.

In 1467 – 1469 and 1478 he participated in wars against Muscovy.