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.

In 1478, Clarence was eventually found guilty of plotting against Edward, imprisoned in the Tower of London and privately executed on 18 February 1478: according to a long standing tradition he was " drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine ".

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.

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.

) 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.

* 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.

* 1478 30 September – The Catholic Monarchs granted the title of Marquis of Gibraltar to the Duke of Medina Sidonia.

* May 17 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham ( executed ) ( b. 1478 )

* Ferdinand I ( 1403 – 1478 ), 2nd Duke of Braganza, son of Afonso I, 1st Duke of Braganza

Under these circumstances Albert returned to Brandenburg in 1478, compelled the Pomeranians to recognize his supremacy, and, after a stubborn struggle, secured a part of Duke Henry's lands for his daughter in 1482.

## in Tangermünde 3 July 1429 to Duke Frederick of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1418 – 1478 ).

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

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.

On 15 January 1478, she was married in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, to Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, the 4-year-old younger son of Edward IV and his queen Elizabeth Woodville.

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

* Fernando I, Duke of Braganza ( 1403 – 1478 )

* Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham ( 1478 – 1521 )

** Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York 1478 – 1483

# 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.

# Frederick II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1408 – 1478

# Fernando I, Duke of Braganza, 1403 – 1478

On 14 January 1478 he was knighted by Edward IV at the marriage of the King's second son, the young Duke of York, and Lady Anne Mowbray ( d. 1483 ).

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

* René of Alençon ( 1478 – 1492 )

* René of Alençon ( 1454 – 1492 ), who would regain his father's confiscated titles of Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche in 1478