Events from the year 1483 in France.

Incumbents Monarch – Louis XI (until August 30), then Charles VIII

Events 30 August – Louis XI 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. Louis XI'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 (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)

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