1453

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1453.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

Centuries:	14th Century		15th Century			16th Century
Decades:	1420s	1430s	1440s	1450s	1460s	1470s	1480s
Years:	1450	1451	1452	1453	1454	1455	1456

Undated

• Ongoing: The final battle of the Hundred Years' War is the Battle of Castillon on July 17, but no treaty or official declaration of peace is made until 1475, and England has troops in France (and retains control of Calais on French soil) well after the fighting is over.
• Event: First use of a mortar weapon in history, during the siege of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire.

January

February

March

April

• April 6:
  • Event: The Ottoman Empire besieges Constantinople.

May

• May 22:
  • Event: Lunar eclipse is visible at the siege of Constantinople, and seen as an omen or fulfillment of a prophecy that a blood moon would happen when the city fell.
• May 29:
  • Event: The Fall of Constantinople marks the end of the thousand-year Byzatine Empire.

June

July

• July 17:
  • Event: The final battle of the Hundred Years' War is the Battle of Castillon.

August

September

October

November

December