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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1475 1476 1477 - 1478 - 1479 1480 1481 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1440s 1450s 1460s - 1470s - 1480s 1490s 1500s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
14th century - 15th century - 16th century |} ==Events== *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 di Piero de' Medici during High Mass in the Santa Maria del Fiore. * December 28 - Battle of Giornico - Swiss troops defeat the Milanese. *Lorenzo de' Medici becomes sole ruler of Florence, Italy *Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow conquers Novgorod * Vladislav II of Bohemia makes peace with Hungary * Eskender succeeds his father Baeda Maryam as Emperor of Ethiopia at the age of six. ==Births== *February 7 - Sir Thomas More, English statesman and humanist author (d. 1535) *December 6 - Baldassarre Castiglione, Italy writer and diplomat (d. 1529) *Pope Clement VII (d. 1534) ==Deaths== *February 18 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1449) *April 26 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici (assassinated) (b. 1453) *Ludovico II of Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1412) * Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1448) 1478 os:1478

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