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The Entry of Mehmed II into Constantinople.Work by French contemporary painter Benjamin-Constant.. Year 1453 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1453rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 453rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 15th century, and the 4th year of the 1450s decade.
1453: The Battle of Castillon is the last engagement of the Hundred Years' War and the first battle in European history where cannons were a major factor in deciding the battle. 1453: Reign of Rajasawardhana ends. [11] 1454–1466: After defeating the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years' War, Poland annexes Royal Prussia.
1453 Muscovite Civil War: Party of Vasily the Blind: Party of Vasily Kosoy Party of Dmitry Shemyaka: 1425 1454 Wars in Lombardy: Duchy of Milan: Republic of Venice: 1426 1435 Dano-Hanseatic War (1426–35) Hanseatic League Holstein-Rendsburg Kalmar Union Pomerania-Barth: 1427 1427 Mainz-Hessian War: Landgraviate of Hesse: Electorate of Mainz ...
May 22 – May 1453 lunar eclipse, a partial eclipse, is visible during the siege of Constantinople. Battle of Castillon July 17 – Battle of Castillon : In the last pitched battle of the Hundred Years' War , the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury , who is killed.
1453 - Constantinople falls to the Muslim Ottoman Turks who make it their capital. An Islamic service of thanksgiving is held in the church of Saint Sophia [18] 1453 Fall of Constantinople, overrun by Ottoman Empire; 1455 - With the bull Romanus Pontifex the patronage of missions in new countries behind Cape Bojador is given to the Portuguese.
The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire.The city was captured on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination of a 55-day siege which had begun on 6 April.
The 1452/1453 mystery eruption is an unidentified volcanic event that triggered the first large sulfate spike in the 1450s, succeeded by another spike in 1458 caused by another mysterious eruption. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The eruption caused a severe volcanic winter leading to one of strongest cooling events in the Northern Hemisphere . [ 3 ]
The Battle of Castillon (1453) was the final major engagement of the Hundred Years' War, but France and England remained formally at war until the Treaty of Picquigny in 1475. English, and later British, monarchs would continue to nominally claim the French throne until 1802 though they would never again seriously pursue it.