Late Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1453
Fall of Constantinople
May 29, 1453
After fifty-three days, a small gate left unbarred admitted Ottoman janissaries into the breached walls. Emperor Constantine XI tore off his imperial insignia and died anonymously in the melee. Mehmed rode into Hagia Sophia that afternoon, ordered it converted to a mosque, and announced the Middle Ages were over. The last remnants of the Roman Empire, enduring over fifteen hundred years since Augustus, perished in a single day.
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Also in 1453 (3 other events on record)
- Siege of Constantinople Begins · Middle East · War
- Battle of Castillon · Europe · War
- Hagia Sophia Converted to Mosque · Middle East · Religion
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.