Year 1478 (MCDLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January 14 – Novgorod surrenders to Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow. January 15 – Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, aged four,'s married to five-year-old Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk. February 18 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England,'s privately executed in the Tower… (More on 1478)