" He described an expedition sent by the Chenghua Emperor in 1483 to procure opium for a price " equal to that of gold " in Hainan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Shaanxi where it is close to Xiyu.

Portugal ruled Angola for 400 years, colonizing the territory from 1483 until independence in 1975.

A woodcut from William Caxton | William Caxton's second edition of the Canterbury Tales printed in 1483.

Although he was born out of wedlock, Erasmus was cared for by his parents until their early deaths from the plague in 1483.

Starting from 1483 or 1484, by recommendation of Benedetto da Maiano, he apprenticed in the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli.

It was called Casa da Guiné, Casa da Guiné e Mina from 1482 to 1483 and Casa da Índia e da Guiné in 1499.

Woodcut from Anton Koberger's Bible ( Nuremberg, 1483 ): The angelically inspired Saint Matthew musters the Old Testament figures, led by Abraham and David

The earliest clear description of the use of opium as a recreational drug in China came from Xu Boling, who wrote in 1483 that opium was " mainly used to aid masculinity, strengthen sperm and regain vigor ," and that it " enhances the art of alchemists, sex and court

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.

Richard III ( 2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485 ) was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth Field.

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.

Richard held this office from 30 April 1483 to 26 June 1483 when he made himself king of the realm.

As early as 1483, Richard III recognised the value of literary works by specifically exempting them from the government's protectionist legislation.

He had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his father's reign, from c. 1483.

) was King of England from 9 April 1483 until his deposition two months later.

After Richard III's accession, the princes were gradually seen less and less within the Tower, and by the end of the summer of 1483 they had disappeared from public view altogether.

It is believed to have been introduced into France from Italy during the reign of King Charles VIII ( ruled 1483 – 98 ), and it is similar to Faro and Basset.

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.

William held the office of comptroller of the household from 1471 to 1475 and again in 1481 till Edward's death in 1483.

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.

Following Edward's sudden death, possibly from pneumonia, in April 1483, Elizabeth briefly became Queen Mother as her son, Edward became king, with his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester acting as Lord Protector.

A business associate of William Caxton, Rood seems to have brought his own wooden printing press to Oxford from Cologne as a speculative venture, and to have worked in the city between around 1480 and 1483.

She held the latter title for less than two years, from 26 June 1483 until her death in March 1485.

* 1470 – King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower ( d. 1483 )

There are reports of the two princes being seen playing in the Tower grounds shortly after Richard joined his brother, but there are no recorded sightings of either of them after the summer of 1483.

Only Mancini's account, written in 1483, is truly contemporary, the other two having been written three and seven years later, respectively.

The first attempt at forging an alliance was made by Alexander I, king of a small Georgian kingdom of Kakheti, who dispatched two embassies, in 1483 and 1491, to Moscow.

Edward IV died suddenly on 9 April 1483, leaving two sons aged 13 and 10.

This restoration was only brief, however, as Edward mustered more support and after two battles at Barnet and Tewkesbury Edward was back on the throne in April 1471 where he stayed until his death in 1483.

His father, who was strongly implicated in the murder of the two princes in the Tower, was attainted and executed for rebelling against King Richard III in 1483, when Stafford was five.

This led to the Siege of Deventer ( 1456 ), and two civil wars, ( 1470-1474 ) and ( 1481-1483 ), concluded in favor of the Cods and Burgundy after the Battle of Westbroek and the Siege of Utrecht ( 1483 ).

* Edward V of England ( 1470-1483 ), king for two months in 1483 until deposed and sent to the Tower

Ownership is suggested by two odes ( awdlau ) dedicated to Sir Thomas Vaughan ( d. 1483 ) and his sons, which were written into the manuscript by Welsh poet Lewys Glyn Cothi at Tretower.

His eldest son, Gaston, the husband of Madeleine, a daughter of Charles VII of France, died in 1470, and when Gaston IV died two years later, his lands descended to his grandson, Francis Phoebus ( died 1483 ).

Alvise Cadamosto or Alvide da Ca ' da Mosto (, also known in Portuguese as Luís Cadamosto ; c. 1432 – July 16, 1483 ) was a Venetian slave trader and explorer, who was hired by the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator and undertook two known journeys to West Africa in 1455 and 1456, accompanied by the Genoese captain Antoniotto Usodimare.

The theory that is most commonly used to explain the existence of the two paintings is that Leonardo painted the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks to fulfil the commission, giving it a date of 1483, and that he then sold it to another client, and painted the London version as a replacement.

This was followed by payments of 40 Lire per month from July 1483 until February 1485 totalling 800 Lire.

He compiled the Cancioneiro Geral ( General Songbook ), probably starting in 1483, though not printed until 1516, which includes the compositions of some three hundred fidalgos of the reigns of kings Afonso V, John II, and Manuel I.

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

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.

The disastrous fire in this part of the building in 1483 made important reconstruction work necessary, with the Doge ’ s apartments being completed by 1510.