1453
Year 1453 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1453rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 453rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 15th century, and the 4th year of the 1450s decade. It 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 Empire.Events
January–December
's entry into Constantinople, Fausto Zonaro
Births
January 1 - Bernardin Frankopan, Croatian nobleman, diplomat and soldier February 6 - Girolamo Benivieni, Florentine poet March 2 - Johannes Engel, German doctor, astronomer and astrologer March 3 - Philip II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg March 25 - Giuliano de' Medici, co-ruler of Florence with Lorenzo de' Medici April 18 - Margaret of Brandenburg, abbess of the Poor Clares monastery at Hof May 13 - Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran, Scottish princess June 10 - Francesco Soderini, Catholic cardinal September 1 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman October 13 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales November 13 - Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden November 17 - Alfonso, Prince of Asturias date unknown - Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer probable - Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese admiralDeaths
February 28 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine May 29* Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine Emperor * Athanasius II of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople* Theophilos Palaiologos, Byzantine grammarian, humanist and mathematician. Cousin of Constantine XI.* Demetrios Palaiologos Metochites, last governor of Constantinople* şehitÇelebi, Ottoman prince June 1* Çandarli Halil Pasha, Ottoman grand vizier* Giovanni Giustiniani, Italian captain June 2 - Álvaro de Luna, Duke of Trujillo, Constable of Castille June 3 - Loukas Notaras, last megas doux of the Byzantine Empire June 4 - Andronikos Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, last Grand Domestic of the Byzantine Empire July 17* Dmitry Shemyaka, Grand Prince of Moscow* John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader July 20 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler October 13 - Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden December 24 - John Dunstaple, English composer Demetrius III, former co-king of Georgia