* 1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople ( Istanbul ), which falls on May 29.

* George Finlay ( 1854 ), History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from 1057 – 1453, Volume 2, William Blackwood & Sons

* 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.

: For the city in the late Roman and the Eastern Roman or Byzantine periods ( 330 – 1453 ), see Constantinople.

It was also the capital of an independent state under Edward, the Black Prince ( 1362 – 1372 ), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon ( 1453 ) it was annexed by France which extended its territory.

On 29 May 1453, Turkish sultan Mehmed II " the Conqueror " entered Constantinople after a 53 – day siege during which his cannon had torn a huge hole in the Walls of Theodosius II.

He gave the Byzantine emperor Constantine Palaeologus ( 1449 – 1453 ) three chances to surrender the city, a duty enjoined by the Shariah ( Muslim Holy Law ).

** René I ( 1431 – 1453 )

** John II ( 1453 – 1470 )

* Vasiliev, A. A., History of the Byzantine Empire 324 – 1453 ( University of Wisconsin Press, 1958 )

* 1515 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman ( b. 1453 )

** Medieval Greek or Byzantine Greek, ( 330 – 1453 AD )

* 1337 – 1453: The Hundred Years War

* Rulers of Austria ( as Dukes 1282 – 1453, Archdukes )

* Kings of Bohemia ( 1306 – 1307, 1437 – 1439, 1453 – 1457, 1526 – 1918 ),

* 1453 – Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years ' War, the The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.

History of the Byzantine Empire, 324 – 1453.

* S. Francesco, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini ( 1447, 1453 – 60 )

* 1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.

Relationships with the royal family remained cold under Joan II ; However, when Raimondello's son Giannantonio ( 1386 – 1453 ) sent his troops to help her against the usurpation attempt of James of Bourbon, he received in exchange the Principality of Taranto.

One of Giacomo's daughters, Clarice ( 1453 – July 30, 1488 ) became Lorenzo de ' Medici's wife.

** Edward, Prince of Wales ( in battle ) ( b. 1453 )

When he married Margaret, his mental condition was already unstable and by the time their only son, Edward of Westminster, was born on 13 October 1453, he had suffered a complete breakdown.

It also hosted important state events, including the meeting between Henry II and the Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1185, the weddings of John of Gaunt in 1359 and Edward IV in 1464, and a meeting of Parliament in 1453.

Charles was also to die without male issue, resulting ultimately in Edward III's claim to the French throne and the subsequent Hundred Years War ( 1337 – 1453 ).

Edward III of England argued, however, that although the Salic law should forbid inheritance by a woman, it did not forbid inheritance through a female line – under this argument, Edward should have inherited the throne, and formed the basis of his claim during the ensuing Hundred Years War ( 1337 – 1453 ).

* Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales ( 1453 – 1471 ), son of King Henry VI of England and Margaret of Anjou

Edward, Prince of Wales, was born on 13 October 1453 and baptized by Waynflete the next day.

* Alfonso, Prince of Asturias ( 1453 – 1468 )

## Yi Yong, the Grand Prince Anpyeong ( 이용 안평대군, 1418 – 1453 ), 3rd son

After the fall of Tǎrnovo to the Ottoman Turks in 1393, a number of Bulgarian clergymen sought shelter in the Russian lands and transferred the idea of the Third Rome there, which eventually resurfaced in Tver, during the reign of Boris of Tver, when the monk Foma ( Thomas ) of Tver had written The Eulogy of the Pious Grand Prince Boris Alexandrovich in 1453.

## Yi Jeong, the Prince Onnyeong ( 이정 온녕군, 1407 – 1453 ), 2nd son

He was the first metropolitan appointed by the Grand Prince after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks ( in 1453 ), although his predecessor, Iona, is considered the first independent metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus ' as he was appointed in 1448 without the approval of the Patriarch of Constantinople.

Giovanni Antonio ( Giannantonio ) Del Balzo Orsini ( 1386 or 1393 – November 15, 1463 ) was Prince of Taranto, Duke of Bari, Count of Lecce, Acerra, Soleto and Conversano, as well as Count of Matera ( 1433 – 63 ) and of Ugento ( 1453 – 63 ).

* Giovanni Antonio ( 1386 – 1463 ), Prince of Taranto, Duke of Bari, Count of Lecce, Acerra, Soleto, Conversano, also 1443 count of Matera, 1453 Ugento.

* 1453 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general ( d. 1515 )

** Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine ( d. 1453 ).

** Sophia of Lithuania, regent of Lithuania ( d. 1453 )

** John Dunstaple, English composer ( d. 1453 )

* February 9 – Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor ( d. 1453 )

* March 15 – Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden ( d. 1453 )

His wife Joan Wotton survived him and married secondly in about 1408 Thomas Young, twice mayor of Bristol, by whom she had two successful sons, John Young, Alderman of London, Grocer and Lord Mayor of London in 1466, and Thomas Young ( d. 1476 ) a lawyer of the Middle Temple, Recorder of Bristol from 1441 and MP for Bristol almost continuously, with one break in 1453, between 1435 to 1455.

* Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell ( d. 1453 ) ( until 1445 feudal Lord of Argyll )

His other works include Atlas historique de la France accompagné d ' un volume de texte ( 1849 ); Histoire de France de 1453 à 1815 ( 1856 ), of which an expanded and illustrated edition appeared as Histoire de France depuis l ' invasion des Barbares dans la Gaule romaine jusqu ' à nos jours ( 1892 ); Histoire populaire de la France ( 1862 – 1863 ); Histoire populaire contemporaine de la France ( 1864 – 1866 ); Causeries de voyage: de Paris à Vienne ( 1864 ); and Introduction générale à l ' histoire de France ( 1865 ).

* Margaret Bent: " Dunstaple, John ( d. 1453 ), composer ", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( subscription access )

Pietro Argallata ( d. 1453 ) described Abū al-Qāsim as " without doubt the chief of all surgeons ".

* Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford ( d. 1453 )

* Manoir d ' Estouteville, with loggias, built in the 15th century by Guillaume d ' Estouteville, archbishop of Rouen in 1453.

Les Trônes d ' Orient ( Zim-Zizimi ; 1453 ; Sultan Mourad )

Les Trônes d ' Orient ( Zim-Zizimi ; 1453 ; Sultan Mourad ; Le Bey outragé ; La chanson des doreurs de proues )

Sections 1332 ( d ), 1453, and 1711 – 1715, expanded federal jurisdiction over many large class-action lawsuits and mass actions taken in the United States.

The courtyard wall was probably added by Sir William Preston ( d. 1453 ), who had travelled in France, and drew on continental inspiration for his new work.

* ( possibly natural son of her husband ) Gabriele del Balzo Orsini ( d. 1453 ), Count of Ugento, etc., Duke of Venosa.

An account of Friar Thomas's preaching and its effect is given by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, provost of Cambrai ( d. 1453 ), in his continuation of Froissart's chronicles.