1453
Year 1453 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1453
 April - Therapia and Studius are taken by the Ottomans in preparation for the assault on Constantinople, as are the Princes' Islands, by the Ottoman fleet under Admiral Baltoghlu.
April 2-May 29 - Siege and Fall of Constantinople (now Istanbul): The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror ends the Byzantine Empire by capturing the city.
May-June: Epibatos and Selymbria also fall to the Turks after the final fall of Constantinople.
July 17 - Battle of Castillon: The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed.
October 19 - The Hundred Years' War comes to a close with the French recapture of Bordeaux, leaving the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
Johann Gutenberg invents the movable type printing press.
Births
September 1 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (d. 1515)
October 13 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (d. 1471)
November 22 - Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer (d. 1505)
probable
*Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese admiral (d. 1515)
Deaths
February 28 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
May 29
*Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor ("last Roman Emperor")
*Giovanni Giustiniani, Italian captain, Lucas Notaras, last Megas Doux of the Byzantine Empire
*Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius II of Constantinople (all killed in, or shortly after, the siege of Constantinople)
June 2 - Alvaro de Luna, Constable of Castile
July 17 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
July 20 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
December 24 - John Dunstaple, English composer (b. 1390)
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