1483

June 25: Richard, Duke of Gloucester, deposes his nephew, King Edward V and imprisons Edward and his brother
The Princes in the Tower, Edward V and his younger brother, Richard, Duke of York, imprisoned in the Tower of London, disappear and are murdered on orders of their uncle.

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

1483 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1483
MCDLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita2236
Armenian calendar932
ԹՎ ՋԼԲ
Assyrian calendar6233
Balinese saka calendar1404–1405
Bengali calendar889–890
Berber calendar2433
English Regnal year22 Edw. 4 – 1 Ric. 3
Buddhist calendar2027
Burmese calendar845
Byzantine calendar6991–6992
Chinese calendar壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
4180 or 3973
    — to —
癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
4181 or 3974
Coptic calendar1199–1200
Discordian calendar2649
Ethiopian calendar1475–1476
Hebrew calendar5243–5244
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1539–1540
 - Shaka Samvat1404–1405
 - Kali Yuga4583–4584
Holocene calendar11483
Igbo calendar483–484
Iranian calendar861–862
Islamic calendar887–888
Japanese calendarBunmei 15
(文明１５年)
Javanese calendar1399–1400
Julian calendar1483
MCDLXXXIII
Korean calendar3816
Minguo calendar429 before ROC
民前429年
Nanakshahi calendar15
Thai solar calendar2025–2026
Tibetan calendarཆུ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་
(male Water-Tiger)
1609 or 1228 or 456
    — to —
ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Water-Hare)
1610 or 1229 or 457

Events

January–March

  • January 7 –
    • At Pau (now part of France), Queen Catalina becomes the new ruler of Navarre at the age of 14, upon the death of her older brother, the 15-year-old King Francisco Febo. Their mother, Magdalena of Valois, continues as regent of Navarre.[1]
    • Ivan IV becomes the new Grand Prince of the semi-independent Principality of Ryazan upon the death of his father, Vasily Ivanovich of Ryazan.[2]
  • January 8 – Following the appointment of the Duke of Albany as Lieutenant-General of the Realm, King James III of Scotland is restored to the throne after having been captured in battle on July 22, 1482.
  • January 20 – The English Parliament, summoned by King Edward IV on November 15, assembles at Westminster.
  • January – Upon the petition the Grand Inquistitor of Castile (now part of Spain) Tomás de Torquemada, the Jews are expelled from the Castilian-controlled portions of Andalusia.[3]
  • February 11 – The General Council of the Inquisition is created in Spain.
  • February 18 – King Edward IV gives royal assent to numerous acts passed by the English Parliament.
  • March 20 – In what is now the Kingdom of Spain, the Islamic Emirate of Granada defeats the Christian Crown of Castile in the Battle of Axarquía, despite the Castilians having four times as many troops as the Granadans.[4]

April–June

  • April 9 – At the age of 12, Edward V becomes King of England upon the sudden death of his father, King Edward IV. The young king will reign for only 78 days before being deposed, imprisoned and murdered by his uncle, Richard III.
  • 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. Of 4,000 Castilian troops, 800 are killed and 1,600 others are taken as prisoners of war.
  • April 30 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503, according to modern orbital calculations. At the time, neither planet has been discovered by Earth astronomers. The event of Pluto being closer to the Sun than Neptune will happen again during the period lasting from 1979 to 1999.
  • May 18 – The coronation of Hans of Oldenburg as King of Denmark takes place at the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.[5]
  • May 19 – King Edward V moves into the Tower of London,[6] the traditional residence of monarchs prior to a coronation. King Edward's coronation had recently been rescheduled for June 25.
  • June 9 – The Grand Duke Ivan IV of Ryazan signs a treaty with his uncle, Grand Duke Ivan III of Moscow, placing Ryazan under Moscow's control and end—ing Ryazan's independence.[2]
  • June 13 – William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, is executed, in the first recorded execution at the Tower of London.
  • June 16 – Richard, Duke of York, the younger brother of King Edward V, arrives at the Tower of London.[6]
  • June 20 – The powerful Duke Fernando II of Braganza is executed in Portugal, followed by more than 80 other noblemen, for his plot against the royal crown.
  • June 25 – On the day of his scheduled coronation, 12-year-old King Edward V is deposed by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who is acclaimed by the English Parliament as King Richard III.

July–September

October–December

Date unknown


Births

Raphael
Martin Luther

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)[16]
  • 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)[17]
  • 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)

References

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  2. ^ a b A. Andreyev and V. Korsakova, "Ryazanskiye knyaz'ya" ("The Princes of Ryazan") in Russkiy biograficheskiy slovar (Russian Biographical Dictionary (St Petersburg, 1913)
  3. ^ Meyerson, Mark (2018). "The Iberian Peninsula under Christian Rule". In Chazan, Roberts (ed.). The Middle Ages: The Christian World. The Cambridge History of Judaism. Vol. 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 178. doi:10.1017/9781139048880. ISBN 9780521517249.
  4. ^ William H. Prescott, of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1868) pp.369-371
  5. ^ a b Allmand, Christopher (2015). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 7, c.1415-c.1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 695. ISBN 978-1-107-46076-8.
  6. ^ a b Rhodes, D.E. (April 1962). "The Princes in the Tower and Their Doctor". The English Historical Review. 77 (303). Oxford University Press: 304–306. doi:10.1093/ehr/lxxvii.ccciii.304.
  7. ^ "Anne Neville, wife of Richard III". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
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  9. ^ Weir, Alison. The Princes in the Tower. p. 157.
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  11. ^ Egied Strubbe, "Wielant, Philippe", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 27 (Brussels, 1938), 279-296
  12. ^ Chrimes, Stanley B. (1977). Henry VII (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-413-38400-3.
  13. ^ Kuroda Motoki, Illustrated Guide to the Kyōtoku Rebellion (Rōkōshō Publishing, 2021) p.150 ISBN 978-4-86403-382-4
  14. ^ Alexander Langkals (2004). Raphael. Prestel. p. 6. ISBN 978-3-7913-3199-7.
  15. ^ John D. Woodbridge; David F. Wright (2005). The Baker History of the Church. Baker Books. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-8010-1277-8.
  16. ^ Charles Phillips (2006). The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Britain. Hermes House. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-681-45961-8.
  17. ^ David Potter (13 February 2003). War and Government in the French Provinces. Cambridge University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-521-89300-8.
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