Stefan Dušan dies suddenly in Macedonia
April 1355
Marching to attack Constantinople, the Serbian emperor collapsed and died at forty-six, possibly of poisoning. Without his force of personality, the polyglot Serbian empire fragmented within a generation among feuding nobles. Byzantium got a reprieve. The Balkans drifted toward the rising Ottoman threat without a coordinating Christian power to organize resistance.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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