1453
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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 |
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Year 1453 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[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.
- Johann 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 |
| 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 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
- July 20 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
- December 24 - John Dunstaple, English composer (b. 1390)
