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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.
[27] [page needed] [28] [29] [30] [page needed] 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 ...
Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, "Old mountain"), a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,400 meters (7,875 ft) above sea level, is believed to be under construction. [2]A religious sacrifice of over a hundred children is performed around this time, outside of the ancient city of Chan Chan (near modern Trujillo), on the north coast of Peru.
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 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.
January 7 – Pope Nicholas V issues a Papal Bull [1] to establish The University of Glasgow; classes are initially held in Glasgow Cathedral.; February 3 – Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded (on February 18) by his son, Mehmed II.
January 7 – Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, marries Isabella of Portugal.; January 10 – Philip the Good founds the Order of the Golden Fleece.; March 29 – The Ottoman Empire, under Murad II, captures Thessalonica after an eight-year siege.
February 4 – Thirteen Years' War: The Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master, and the citizens of ToruĊ rebel against the Teutonic Knights, beginning the conflict.