Millennium:	2nd millennium
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

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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.

1453 in other calendars

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
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[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)