Battle of Castillon
French cannon end the Hundred Years' War
On 17 July 1453 the elderly John Talbot attacked a fortified French camp and was killed under fire from its artillery. Bordeaux surrendered three months later, leaving England only Calais on the Continent.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — 16 years later
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 25 years later
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — same year
Asia
- c. 1431 Fall of Angkor — 22 years earlier
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 7 years earlier
- 1449 Tumu Crisis — 4 years earlier
- 1467–1477 Ōnin War — 14 years later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 15 years earlier
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 3 years earlier
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 3 years earlier
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 8 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 53)
- Mehmed II (aged 21)
- Christopher Columbus (aged 2)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 1)
- Charles VII (aged 50)
- Pachacuti (aged 35)
- Louis XI (aged 30)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 17)
- Ivan III (aged 13)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 2)