Events from the year 1483 in France
Incumbents
- Monarch – Louis XI (until August 30), then Charles VIII
Events
- 30 August –
- Louis XI of France after bouts of apoplexy and years of illness dies. He is interred in the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Cléry in Cléry-Saint-André in the Arrondissement of Orléans.
- Charles VIII becomes King of France at thirteen years of age after the death of his father Louis XI of France.
- Louis XI of France's eldest daughter, Anne, becomes regent on Charles VIII's behalf.
- November – Following the Buckingham's Rebellion, some 500 Englishmen fled to Rennes, the capital of Brittany to join Henry Tudor in exile.
Births
Full date missing
- Jacquet of Mantua, composer (died 1559)
- Robert Céneau, bishop and historian (died 1560)
Deaths
- 30 August – Louis XI of France (born 1423).
Full date missing
- Guillaume d'Estouteville, monk, bishop and cardinal (born 1403/1412)
- Charlotte of Savoy, queen consort (born 1441)
- Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (born 1428)
See also
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