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Year '1453' was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1453

Births

Deaths

Events of 1453

★ 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.

★ 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 (died 1471)

★ November 22 - Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer (died 1505)

★ ''probable''

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★ Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese admiral (died 1515)

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)