1483

Year 1483 (MCDLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

1483 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1483 MCDLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2236
Armenian calendar	932 ԹՎ ՋԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	6233
Balinese saka calendar	1404–1405
Bengali calendar	889–890
Berber calendar	2433
English Regnal year	22 Edw. 4 – 1 Ric. 3
Buddhist calendar	2027
Burmese calendar	845
Byzantine calendar	6991–6992
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4180 or 3973     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4181 or 3974
Coptic calendar	1199–1200
Discordian calendar	2649
Ethiopian calendar	1475–1476
Hebrew calendar	5243–5244
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1539–1540
- Shaka Samvat	1404–1405
- Kali Yuga	4583–4584
Holocene calendar	11483
Igbo calendar	483–484
Iranian calendar	861–862
Islamic calendar	887–888
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 15 (文明１５年)
Javanese calendar	1399–1400
Julian calendar	1483 MCDLXXXIII
Korean calendar	3816
Minguo calendar	429 before ROC 民前429年
Nanakshahi calendar	15
Thai solar calendar	2025–2026
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Water-Tiger) 1609 or 1228 or 456     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 1610 or 1229 or 457

The Princes in the Tower vanish.

Events

January–December

• January 1 – The Jews are expelled from Andalusia.
• February 11 – The General Council of the Inquisition is created in Spain.
• April 9 – Edward V becomes King of England.
• April 29 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile, a very important step in the expansion of Spain.
• April 30 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503, according to modern orbital calculations.
• April – King Edward V of England and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York reside in the Tower of London. Later this year, rumors of their murders start circulating. By December the rumors have reached France. This is the beginning of the mystery concerning the fates of the two Princes in the Tower.
• June 13 – William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, is executed, in the first recorded execution at the Tower of London.
• June 20 – The powerful Fernando II, Duke of Braganza is executed in Portugal, followed by more than 80 other noblemen, for his plot against the royal crown.
• June 25 – Before his coronation, King Edward V of England is deposed by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who becomes King as Richard III of England.
• July 6 – Richard III and Anne Neville are crowned king and Queen of England, at Westminster Abbey.^[1]
• July 20 – John of Denmark is crowned King of Norway.
• August 15 – The Sistine Chapel opens in the Apostolic Palace in Rome.
• September 3 – The Princes in the Tower, uncrowned 12-year-old Edward V of England and his 10-year-old brother, Richard, Duke of York, are perhaps murdered this night in the Tower of London.^[2]
• October – A rebellion by the Duke of Buckingham is crushed by Richard III of England.
• October 29 – Battle of Una: Forces of the Kingdom of Croatia defeat the army of the Ottoman Empire.

Date unknown

• Isaac Abravanel flees Portugal, after being implicated in a plot against the king.
• The Prince of Moscow builds the fortress of Ivangorod, facing Narva.
• Giovanni Bellini is named official painter of the Republic of Venice.
• Flavio Biondo publishes his Historiarum ab inclinatione romanorum imperii.

Births

Raphael

Martin Luther

• January 12 – Henry III of Nassau-Breda, Baron of Breda (d. 1538)
• February 14 – Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder of the Moghul Dynasty (d. 1530)
• March 6 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and statesman (d. 1540)
• April 6 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)^[3]
• April 19 – Paolo Giovio, Italian bishop (d. 1552)
• July 20 – Wang Gen, Chinese philosopher (d. 1541)
• September 3 – Eric II, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1508)
• October 16 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
• October 26 – Hans Buchner, German Renaissance composer (d. 1538)
• November 10 – Martin Luther, German monk and Protestant reformer (d. 1546)^[4]
• November 16 – Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Landgravine of Hesse, German noble (d. 1522)
• December 3 – Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German theologian and Protestant reformer (d. 1565)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Parr, Englishman, alleged oldest living man (d. 1635)
  • Cacamatzin, Aztec ruler (d. 1520)
  • Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (d. 1559)
  • Chen Chun, Chinese painter (d. 1544)
  • Felice della Rovere, also known as Madonna Felice, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II (d. 1536)
  • Andrea Navagero, Venetian diplomat and writer (d. 1529)

Deaths

• January 19 – William IV, Lord of Egmont, IJsselstein, Schoonderwoerd and Haastrecht and Stadtholder of Guelders (b. 1412)
• February 27 – William VIII, Marquess of Montferrat (b. 1420)
• March 23 – Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1428)
• April 4 – Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex (b. c. 1405)
• April 9 – King Edward IV of England (b. 1442)^[5]
• April 24 – Margaret of Bourbon, French noble (b. 1438)
• May 4 – George Neville, Duke of Bedford, English dispossessed nobleman (b. 1465)
• May 6 – Queen Jeonghui, Korean regent (b. 1418)
• June 13 – William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (executed; b. 1431)
• June 25
  • Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (executed; b. 1442)
  • Richard Grey, English knight, half brother of Edward V (executed; b. 1457)
• July 4 – Costanzo I Sforza, Italian condottiero (b. 1447)
• August 30 – King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)^[6]
• November 2 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
• December 1 – Charlotte of Savoy, French queen (b. 1441)
• date unknown
  • Edmund Sutton, English nobleman (b. 1425)
  • Elise Eskilsdotter, Norwegian noblewoman and pirate
  • Edward V, King of England (b. 1470)