1478

This page relates to the year 1478 Calendrier Julien.

Events

the Aztèques for the first time since the beginning of their expansion are severely beaten by the Tarasques in the Michoacán.

November 8th: Eskender (Alexandre) succeeds his/her father Baéda-Maryam at the seven years age on the throne of Ethiopia (fine in 1494).
the troops of Eskender devastate Dakar, capital of the Adal. Forwardings against the Moslems turn to the disaster.

January 15th: Richard de Shrewsbury, Duke of York, wife at the 4 years age Anne de Mowbray (1472 † 1481), countess of Norfolk.
February 18th: George, duke of Clarence is carried out for treason with the Tour of London.
April 26th: Conspiracy of Pazzi. Plot of the Guelfe Francesco Pazzi and of Girolamo Riario (nephew of Sixth IV) against the Médicis. Julien de Médicis is only killed, and entreated Laurent Splendid the massacre and banishes the Pazzi Florence. Sixte IV, which had fomented the plot, excommunicates Laurent, but will be obliged to make peace in 1480 after a war with the support of Naples and His.
May: the archduke Maximilien of Austria contains the French advance, in particular pushing back a French attack on Audenarde and Ypres.
July 3rd: Giuliano della Rovere, future pope Jules II, is named bishop of Mende (Gévaudan, France).
November 1st: By the bubble Exigit sinceræ devotionis the pope concedes with the catholic Kings the creation of the Spanish Inquisition.
November 28th: Swiss Victoire of the S on the Milan board with the Battle of Giornico.

In Italy, Louis XI is based against papacy on the commercial powers: Florence, Milan and incidentally Venice. It uses purely diplomatic means.
Plague with Venice.
Présence of Christophe Colomb with Madeira, where he marries Philippa Perestrello, of which the family, originating in, is very interested by the African discoveries.

January 14th: Ivan III the Large one joins together Novgorod at the Muscovite State. Many families are exiled.

Creation of the pomestie : Ivan III confiscates the inheritance of the boyards of Novgorod and concedes to them the ground benefit ( pomestie ) in the area of Moscow in exchange of their military services and their honesty.

June 25th: Beginning of the revolt of the peasants of Carinthie, who wish to replace by their own confederation the orders of the province unable to protect them from the Turkish incursions. The company will fail in consequence of the incapacity of revolted to overcome the nobility militarily.

After its victory over the Jagellon with Breslau, Mathias Corvin is made yield the Silesia, the Lusace and the Moravie with the peace of Olomouc with depends on the Bohemia (1479).
Taken Albanian fortress of Kruja by the Turks.
the khans of the Tatars of the Crimea (capital Balkhchisarai) are tributary of the Othoman sultan .

Conspiracy of Pazzi , poem of Angel Politien.
Spring , fabric of Sandro Botticelli.
Léonard de Vinci becomes an independent artist. Its first order, a retable for the vault of Palazzo Vecchio, is never carried out.

Bankruptcies of the banks subsidiary of the Médicis to London (1477), to Bruges (1478), to Milan (1478) and to Avignon (1479) due to the lack of interest of Laurent Splendid the for the businesses.
First general budget with the Portugal: the central intendance of Finances calculates the receipts and the ordinary expenditure of the past year and evaluates these last for the year which starts, by taking account of the tax measures suggested and adopted.
the population of Istanbul is approximately of 70 000 with 80 000 inhabitants.

February 7th: Thomas More, writer, Philosopher, Theologist and Politician English, future chancellor of England. († July 6th 1535).
July 8th: Gian Giorgio Trissino known as Trissin , writer and Italian poet of the Rebirth. († December 8th 1550).
July 22nd: Philippe the Beautiful, future sovereign of the Netherlands, king de Castille and archduke of Austria.
December 6th: Baldassare Castiglione, writer and Italian diplomat.

June 12th: Louis III Gonzague de Mantoue, noble Italian, marquis de Mantoue (° June 5th 1414, 64 years)
August 28th: Yolande de France

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