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1483| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. | | 15 February 1483 | Uzbekistan [births and deaths] | Babur (original name Zahir-ud-Din Mohammad), emperor of India 1526–30, founder of the Mogul dynasty, descendant of Genghis Khan and of Timur Leng (Tamerlane), born in the principality of Fergana, Uzbekistan (–1530). | | August 1483 | Sweden, Denmark-Norway [administration] | John II (Hans), having succeeded his father Christian I as king of Norway and Denmark in 1481, is recognized by the Swedish state council as king of Sweden. The regent Sten Sture contrives to postpone the coronation. | | August 1483 | England [political events] | The ‘princes in the Tower’, Edward V and his brother Richard, disappear. Rumours suggest that they have been murdered by their uncle and guardian, Richard III of England. | | 2 August 1483 | Spain, Castile, Papal States, Italy [Christianity] | A bull of Pope Sixtus IV appoints Queen Isabella I's confessor, the harsh Dominican Tomás de Torquemada, as the first Grand Inquisitor of Castile. His implacable paranoid hostility toward Jews and Muslims subsequently directs the actions of the Inquisition. | | 10 November 1483 | Saxony [births and deaths] | Martin Luther, great German theologian, preacher, and biblical translator, instigator of the Protestant Reformation, born in Eisleben, Saxony (–1546). |
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