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  • Cairo, Egypt
    Tuesday Feb 1, 1453
    Mamluks

    Al-Mansur Fakhr-ad-Din Uthman was the Mamluk sultan of Egypt in 1453

    Cairo, Egypt
    Tuesday Feb 1, 1453

    Al-Malik al-Mansur Fakhr ad-Din Uthman ibn Jàqmaq, more simply known as Al-Mansur Uthman was Sultan of Cairo's Mamluk Burji dynasty (1453).




  • Cairo, Egypt
    Tuesday Mar 15, 1453
    Mamluks

    Sayf ad-Din Inal was the 13th Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt

    Cairo, Egypt
    Tuesday Mar 15, 1453

    Al-Malik al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Abu an-Nasr Inal al-'Ala'i az-Zahiri an-Nasiri al-Ajrud was the 13th Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt, ruling between 1453–1461.




  • Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
    Saturday Apr 2, 1453
    Byzantine Empire

    Sultan Mehmed's siege

    Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
    Saturday Apr 2, 1453

    Constantinople by this stage was underpopulated and dilapidated. The population of the city had collapsed so severely that it was now little more than a cluster of villages separated by fields. On 2 April 1453, Sultan Mehmed's army of 80,000 men and large numbers of irregulars laid siege to the city.




  • Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
    Sunday May 29, 1453
    Ottoman Empire

    Mehmed the Conqueror conquered Constantinople

    Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
    Sunday May 29, 1453

    The son of Murad II, Mehmed the Conqueror, reorganized both state and military, and on 29 May 1453 conquered Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire. Mehmed allowed the Eastern Orthodox Church to maintain its autonomy and land in exchange for accepting Ottoman authority.




  • Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
    Sunday May 29, 1453
    Byzantine Empire

    Constantinople fell to the Ottomans

    Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
    Sunday May 29, 1453

    Despite a desperate last-ditch defense of the city by the massively outnumbered forces (c. 7,000 men, 2,000 of whom were foreign), Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans after a two-month siege on 29 May 1453. The final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was last seen casting off his imperial regalia and throwing himself into hand-to-hand combat after the walls of the city were taken.




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