Siege of Belgrade Lifted
July 22, 1456
John Hunyadi and the Franciscan friar John of Capistrano led a peasant crusade that drove Mehmed II back from Belgrade's walls. Mehmed was wounded in the thigh and retreated. To celebrate, Pope Callixtus III ordered church bells rung every noon across Christendom, a practice Catholics still keep without knowing why.
In context
Also in 1456 (3 other events on record)
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- Athens Falls to the Ottomans · Europe · War
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.