1453
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1420s 1430s 1440s – 1450s – 1460s 1470s 1480s |
| Years: | 1450 1451 1452 – 1453 – 1454 1455 1456 |
| 1453 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1453 (MCDLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. 1453 is sometimes cited as the notional end of the Middle Ages by historians who define the medieval period as the time between the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and the fall of the Byzantine ("Eastern Roman") Empire.
[edit] 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.
- Johannes Gutenberg invents the movable type printing press.
| Gregorian calendar | 1453 MCDLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2206 |
| Armenian calendar | 902 ԹՎ ՋԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -391 – -390 |
| Bengali calendar | 860 |
| Berber calendar | 2403 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1997 |
| Burmese calendar | 815 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6961 – 6962 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬申年十一月廿二日 (4089/4149-11-22) — to —
癸酉年十二月初二日(4090/4150-12-2) |
| Coptic calendar | 1169 – 1170 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1445 – 1446 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5213 – 5214 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1508 – 1509 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1375 – 1376 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4554 – 4555 |
| Holocene calendar | 11453 |
| Iranian calendar | 831 – 832 |
| Islamic calendar | 856 – 857 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōtoku 2 (享徳2年) |
| Korean calendar | 3786 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1996 |
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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 – Dmitry Shemyaka, Grand Prince of Moscow 1445, 1446-1447, poisoned in Veliky Novgorod by Vasily Tyomny's agents
- 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)
