1453
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Events
April
- April 2: The army of Mehmet II sets up camp outside Constantinople. The siege of the city begins.
May
- May 22: A lunar eclipse occurs while Constantinople is under siege by the Ottoman Turks.
The Byzantines take it as a bad omen since an old legend stated that Constantinople would never fall while the Moon was waxing.
- May 29: The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.
Deaths
May
- May 29: Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine Emperor.