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Between 1346 and 1349, the Black Death killed almost half of the inhabitants of Constantinople. [31] The city was further depopulated by the general economic and territorial decline of the empire, and by 1453, it consisted of a series of walled villages separated by vast fields encircled by the fifth-century Theodosian Walls.
The Battle of Castillon was a battle between the forces of England and France which took place on 17 July 1453 in Gascony near the town of Castillon-sur-Dordogne (later Castillon-la-Bataille). On the day of the battle, the English commander, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury , believing that the enemy was retreating, led his army in an attack ...
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.
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The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans; 1337–1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes over the Duchy of Aquitaine and was triggered by a claim to the French throne made by Edward III of England .
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.
AD 23: 14 September: Drusus Julius Caesar died, possibly after being poisoned by Sejanus or his wife Livilla. AD 26: Tiberius retired to Capri, leaving Sejanus in control of Rome through his office. AD 28: The Frisii hanged their Roman tax collectors and expelled the governor. AD 29: Livia, Augustus's widow and Tiberius's mother, died. AD 31: ...
1453. March – Parliament grants Henry generous taxes and condemns past rebels. [2] 17 July – Hundred Years' War: at the Battle of Castillon, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed. [1] 10 August – The King becomes mentally unstable; his cousin Richard, Duke of York acts as regent. [1]