1450s
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Millennium
:
2nd millennium
Centuries
:
14th century
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15th century
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16th century
Decades
:
1420s
1430s
1440s
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1450s
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1460s
1470s
1480s
Years:
1450
1451
1452
1453
1454
1455
1456
1457
1458
1459
Categories:
Births
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Deaths
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Architecture
Establishments
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Disestablishments
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Events and trends
Johannes Gutenberg
was credited with inventing the first
movable type
printing press
in
Mainz
,
Germany
.
1453
-
Mehmed II
of the
Ottoman Empire
laid siege to, and captures
,
Constantinople
, ending the political independence of the millennium-old
Byzantine Empire
.
1455
- Forces led by
Richard, Duke of York
and
Richard, Earl of Warwick
captured
Lancastrian
King
Henry VI of England
. This began the
Wars of the Roses
; the first major event of the war was a
Yorkist
victory in the
First Battle of St Albans
.
1456
-
Siege of Belgrade
. The
Hungarians
under
John Hunyadi
routed the Turkish army of Sultan
Mehmed II
. The victory stopped the
Ottoman Turkish
advance towards
Catholic
Europe for 70 years.
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