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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