DCCCXXX

DCCCXXX (483 AD) was a common year of the Julian calendar starting on a Friday. In the Western Roman Empire the emperor was Julius Nepos, though his authority was limited to Italy and the western provinces. In the Eastern Roman Empire the emperor was Zeno, who was dealing with the Ostrogothic threat in Italy and the internal unrest of the eastern provinces.

A significant ecclesiastical event of the year was the death of Pope Felix I on May 30th, after a papacy of one year. His successor, Pope Gelasius I, was elected later that month and would go on to play a key role in the theological controversies of the 5th and 6th centuries.

The Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great had died in 474, and his senior subordinate, Ostrogothic general and future king Theudis, governed parts of southern Italy in 483. In the north, the Frankish tribes were under the rule of King Gundobad, who was consolidating power in the region that would later become Burgundy.

In terms of culture, the 5th‑century art and literature of the Roman West were characterized by a mixture of Christian themes and lingering pagan motifs. While no major artistic masterpieces have been firmly dated to this year, it is contextualized by the broader movement toward monasticism and scriptoria following the decline of the Roman urban culture.

The year 483 saw no recorded natural disasters of widespread scope, but the ongoing political fragmentation and swarm of barbarian incursions continued to shape the transition from Roman to medieval societies across Europe. The Gregorian calendar would not be introduced until the 16th century, and the year remains commonly referenced by its Roman numeral notation, DCCCXXX, in scholarly works on early medieval chronology.