1453

Centuries:	14th century - 15th century - 16th century
Decades:	1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s
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 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.
Johann Gutenberg invents the movable type printing press.

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)