1453 - What happened in 1453 ?

April 1453

Saturday 02:

Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29

May 1453

Sunday 29:

Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.

July 1453

Sunday 17:

Hundred Years' War: The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the Battle of Castillon at Gascony

October 1453

Wednesday 19:

The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.