Belgrade Falls to Suleiman
August 29, 1521
The young sultan Suleiman marched his army up the Danube and took Belgrade, a fortress that had repelled Mehmed II half a century before. The fall of the Hungarian bastion opened the road into Central Europe. Within five years Ottoman hooves would be splashing through the Danube meadows at Mohacs.
In context
Also in 1521 (5 other events on record)
- Luther at the Diet of Worms · Europe · Religion
- Tenochtitlan Falls · North America · War
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- Cortes Recruits Tlaxcalan Allies · North America · War
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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