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• (1478–1529).

• The Spanish Inquisition was first authorized in 1478.

• As a military engineer he was effective in the defense of Florence against Naples in 1478.

• When the Spanish Inquisition was created on November 1, 1478, it was not entirely unexpected.

• In 1478 they established the Spanish Inquisition to enforce religious uniformity (see Inquisition).

• Lorenzo escaped the fate of his younger brother Giuliano, who in 1478 was stabbed to death at high mass.

• Stability was briefly threatened in 1478 by the brutal but abortive Pazzi conspiracy seeking to end the Medici rule.

• An assassination attempt on the Medici brothers was made during mass at the Cathedral of Florence on April 26, 1478.

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• It is housed in a palace complex that served as the administrative centre and residence of the imperial Ottoman court from about 1478 to 1856.

• Within a few years of his death, however, his citadel at Krujë had fallen (1478), and Albania passed into several centuries of obscurity under Turkish rule.

• In 1478 they first obtained a papal bull from Sixtus IV setting up the Inquisition to deal with the conversos whose conversions were thought to be insincere.

• Of Mikołaj II’s three brothers, Jerzy (1480–1541) became hetman of Lithuania in 1531, Jan Mikołaj (d. 1522) was castellan of Troki, and Wojciech (1478–1519) was bishop of Wilno.

• The oldest English viscountcy surviving today is that of Hereford, created in 1550; the premier Irish one, however, that of Gormanston, is somewhat older, having been created in 1478.

• In 1478 Richard’s acquiescence in—or perhaps positive approval of—charges of treason against his brother George permitted George’s execution, from which Richard was the principal beneficiary.

• Later popes appointed judges delegate as individual inquisitors, although there was not an institutionalized office of inquisition until the royal-papal establishment of the Spanish Inquisition in 1478.

• Its absorption by the growing principality of Muscovy in 1478 ended its political independence and changed its social structure, but Novgorod’s characteristic economic and cultural life did not end with that catastrophe.

1478 sentence examples

• In his capacity as grand inquisitor, Torquemada reorganized the Spanish Inquisition, which had been set up in Castile in 1478, establishing tribunals at Sevilla (Seville), Jaén, Córdoba, Ciudad Real, and, later, Zaragoza.

• Medmed took up residence in 1478, and after his death three years later, successive sultans renovated and expanded the palace frequently, resulting in the palace’s medley of changing Islamic, Ottoman, and European architecture styles and decoration.

• Ulrich and Georg established an agency of their own in the German merchants’ building in Venice, where their youngest brother, Jakob II the Rich, who had originally been destined for an ecclesiastical career, studied modern bookkeeping from 1478 on.

• Nevertheless the arts, particularly literature, historiography, and miniature painting, continued to flourish; the court of the last great Timurid, Ḥusayn Bāyqarā (1478–1506) supported such luminaries as the poet Jāmī, the painters Behzād and Shāh Muẓaffar, and the historians Mīrkhwānd and Khwāndamīr.