1453 Event

Capture of Constantinople

Name: Capture of Constantinople
Start: 1453

Mehmed II ends the Eastern Roman Empire; Europe’s commercial and intellectual horizon shifts.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1453 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year Fall of Constantinople Greece
4 years later Reign of Stephen the Great Moldova
10 years earlier Skanderbeg’s revolt Albania
10 years later Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
21 years earlier The Ghent Altarpiece Belgium

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Renaissance 1400 – 1600 Printing, humanism, and the opening of ocean routes.
High and Late Middle Ages 1000 – 1453 Towns, universities, cathedrals, plague and long wars.

Countries involved

Türkiye

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What was written of it

The powers of Europe are so bound to one another that they form an indissoluble system, in which none can be shaken without shaking the rest. All trade enough with one another to be unable to do without one another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1761

Abstract of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s Project for Perpetual Peace

Translated by the site, not by the author.