This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2010) 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 by topic Arts and science Architecture - Art Politics State leaders - Sovereign states Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments v · d · e Art and literature 1453 in poetry v · d · e 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  - Bikram Samwat 1509 – 1510  - 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 v · d · e

Year 1453 (MCDLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. 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 (Eastern Roman) Empire. 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 Mehmet II the Conqueror ends the Byzantine Empire by capturing the capital, Constantinople. 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. Revolt of Ghent: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, crushes the Ghent rebellion. 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) 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)