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Events

April 2 - Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople ( İstanbul ).

May 29 - Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror , marking the end of the Byzantine Empire ( Eastern Roman Empire ).

Istanbul University founded. Istanbul University is one of the oldest universities in Europe , and the oldest in Turkey . It was modernised by Kemal Atatürk in 1933 .

July 17 - Battle Of Castillon . The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl Of Shrewsbury , who is killed.

October 19 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.

Johann Gutenberg invents the movable type Printing Press .

Births

September 1 - Gonzalo Fernández De Córdoba , Spanish general and statesman (d. 1515 )

October 13 - Edward Of Westminster , Prince of Wales (died 1471 )

November 22 - Jacob Obrecht , Flemish composer (died 1505 )

Alfonso D'Albuquerque , Portuguese admiral (died 1515 )

Deaths

February 28 - Isabella, Duchess Of Lorraine (born 1400 )

May 29 - Constantine XI , last Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle) (born 1404 )

June 2 - Alvaro De Luna , Constable of Castile

July 17 - John Talbot, 1st Earl Of Shrewsbury , English military leader

July 20 - Enguerrand De Monstrelet , French chronicler

December 24 - John Dunstable , English composer (born 1390 )

Giovanni Giustiniani , Italian captain

Lucas Notaras , last Grand Duke of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire

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