Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "People of the Hundred Years' War" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 267 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of notable people from the city of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) between the third century and 1453 CE. For a list of people born before the third century CE, see Notable people from Byzantium. For a list of people born after 1453, see List of people from Istanbul.
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.
Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes. [34] [35]
Orban, also known as Urban (Hungarian: Orbán; died 1453), was an iron founder and engineer from Brassó, Transylvania, in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Brașov, Romania), who cast large-calibre artillery for the siege of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453. [1]
Madonna del Ceppo (1452-1453) Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus (from predella c.1445-1450) Andrea Mantegna. Adoration of the Shepherds (c.1450-1451) Crucifixion (1447-1459) Presentation at the Temple (c.1453-1455) Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan (1459-1460) St. James Led to His Execution (c.1455) (lost)
In its own time, the Empire ruled from Constantinople (or "New Rome" as some people call it, although this was a laudatory expression that was never an official title) and was simply considered as "the Roman Empire." The fall of Constantinople led competing factions to lay claim to being the inheritors of the Imperial mantle.
1453: Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks. End of the Byzantine Empire (or Eastern Roman Empire to some); Constantinople becomes capital of Ottoman Empire. 1453: The Hundred Years' War ends. England's once vast territory in France is now reduced to only Calais, which they eventually lose control of as well. 1455: 22 May: Battle of St. Albans