* 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect ( d. 1520 )

* 1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.

* 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.

* Alexander II of Imereti ( 1478, 1483 – 1510 ), King of Georgia and of Imereti

They were considered a Catholic innovation, not widely practiced until the 18th century, and were opposed vigorously in worship by a number of Protestant Reformers, including Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ), John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ) and John Wesley ( 1703 – 1791 ).

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

** Louis XI ( 1461 – 1483 )

** Charles VIII ( 1483 – 1498 )

* Louis XI ( 1461 – 1483 )

* Charles VIII ( 1483 – 1498 )

* 1483 – Babur, Moghul emperor of India ( d. 1530 )

# Margarete ( 10 January 1483, Ansbach – 10 July 1532 ).

Gasparo Contarini ( 16 October 1483 – 24 August 1542 ) was an Italian diplomat and lay cardinal.

Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 )

** Charles VIII the Affable, 1483 – 1498

* 1423 – Louis XI of France ( d. 1483 )

* 1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.

* 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian ( b. 1483 )

* 1483 – Coronation of Charles VIII of France ( Charles l ' Affable ).

); France's, Jean Bodin, Colbert and other physiocrats precursors ; and the Spanish School of Salamanca writers Francisco de Vitoria ( 1480 or 1483 – 1546 ), Domingo de Soto ( 1494 – 1560 ), Martin de Azpilcueta ( 1491 – 1586 ), and Luis de Molina ( 1535 – 1600 ).

In 1483, Ghirlandaio was summoned to Rome by Pope Sixtus IV to paint a wall fresco in the Sistine Chapel, Vocation of the Apostles ; also attributed to him is the Sistine Chapel's Crossing of the Red Sea, although more likely executed by Cosimo Rosselli or Biagio d ' Antonio.

* Francesco ( 1444 – 1483 ), created cardinal by Pope Pius II

Opening of De rerum natura, 1483 copy by Girolamo di Matteo de Tauris for Pope Sixtus IV

* Rodrigo Borgia ( 1431-1503 ) ( 1456, 1483, elected Pope Alexander VI in 1492 )

In November 1483 she was received by Pope Sixtus IV in the Vatican Palace and was seated in a chair of the same " height and dignity " as the pope.

In 1483, the year of the commission, Pope Sixtus VI threatened with excommunication all those who did not accept the dogma of Mary ’ s immaculate conception.

Nominated Protonotary Apostolic in 1481, he was appointed Master of Ceremonies to Pope Sixtus IV in 1483, having bought the office for 450 ducats.

* Pope John XII of Alexandria ( 1480 – 1483 )

* Pope John XIII of Alexandria ( 1483 – 1524 )

He was present at the execution of Fernando II, Duke of Braganza at Évora in 1483, and in 1484 went to Rome as secretary of an embassy to Pope Innocent VIII.

The most important member of the Monterotondo Orsinis was Giovani Battista Orsini, who became cardinal under Sixtus IV ( 1483 ).

For refusing to desist from the very hostilities that he himself had instigated ( and for being a dangerous rival to Della Rovere dynastic ambitions in the Marche ), Sixtus IV placed Venice under interdict in 1483.

These paintings were completed in 1482, and on 15 August 1483, Sixtus IV celebrated the first mass in the Sistine Chapel for the Feast of the Assumption, at which ceremony the chapel was consecrated and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

In 1483 Sixtus excommunicated Thaddeus.

By a Bull dated November, 1483, Sixtus IV fixed the number at twenty-four, six for each part.

When his brother Edward IV died in April 1483, Richard was named Lord Protector of the realm for Edward's son and successor, the 12-year-old King Edward V. As the new king travelled to London from Ludlow, Richard met and escorted him to London where he was lodged in the Tower of London.

The first, in October 1483, was led by staunch allies of Edward IV and most notably by Richard's former ally, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.

On the death of Edward IV, on 9 April 1483, the late king's twelve-year-old son, Edward V, succeeded him.

In 1483 a conspiracy arose among a number of disaffected gentry, many of whom were supporters of Edward IV.

* June 28 – Edward, Richard of York's son, is crowned as Edward IV, King of England ( reigns until 1483 ).

* April 28 – King Edward IV of England ( d. 1483 )

Edward IV ( 28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483 ) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death.

Elizabeth Woodville ( also spelled Wydeville or Widvile ; c. 1437 – 8 June 1492 ) was Queen consort of England as the spouse of King Edward IV from 1464 until his death in 1483.

In 1483, Edward IV died and Elizabeth's younger brother, Edward V, became King.

* Edward IV ( 1442 – 1483 ), king of England

On 9 April 1483, Edward IV died.

Tewkesbury restored political stability to England until the death of Edward IV in 1483.

Her brother, the Duke of Clarence, had been executed by Edward IV in 1478 ; Edward himself had died of illness in 1483 and finally, her younger brother Richard, who took the throne as Richard III was in 1485 killed at the Battle of Bosworth by the leader of the House of Lancaster, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, a cousin and nephew of Henry VI, who went on to become Henry VII, and to marry the daughter of Edward IV, Elizabeth of York.

Upon her death, her heirs normally would have been her cousins William, Viscount Berkeley and John, Lord Howard, but by an act of Parliament in January 1483 the rights were given to her husband Richard, with reversion to his descendants, and, failing that, to the descendants of his father Edward IV.

# Edward IV of England ( 28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483 ).

After the unexpected death of Edward IV in 1483 and the accession of his twelve-year-old son Edward V, Stanley was among those who sought to maintain a balance of power between the young king's uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who was now Lord Protector, and his maternal family, the Woodvilles.

* Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York ( 1473 – 1483 ), second son of Edward IV of England and younger brother of Edward V of England

When Edward IV died in 1483 and the Woodvilles struggled with Edward's brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, over the guardianship of the young Edward V, Buckingham first sided with Richard.

In 1483, a conspiracy arose among a number of disaffected gentry, supporters of Edward IV.

Although some historians think Mancini arrived in England at the end of 1482, others believe he got there just before Edward IV died ( 9 April 1483 ).