1453
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| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s
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| 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 Ottoman in preperation 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) to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire.
- 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 |
| Chinese calendar | 4089/4149-11-22 (壬申年十一月廿二日) — to — 4090/4150-12-2(癸酉年十二月初二日) |
| 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) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2113 (皇紀2113年) |
| Julian calendar | 1498 |
| 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 (died 1471)
- November 22 - Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer (died 1505)
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- Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese admiral (died 1515)
[edit] Deaths
- February 28 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (born 1400)
- May 29 - Constantine XI, last Byzantine 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 (born 1390)af:1453
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