Battle of Varna
The king of Poland and Hungary dies on the last crusade
Władysław III, king of Poland and Hungary, broke a freshly sworn peace with the sultan and marched to the Black Sea. On 10 November 1444 Murad II's army routed the crusaders, and the young king fell charging the janissaries; Constantinople was left without help.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1425–1453 Muscovite War of Succession — 19 years earlier
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — 25 years later
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 9 years later
Asia
- c. 1424 Ulugh Beg's observatory — 20 years earlier
- c. 1431 Fall of Angkor — 13 years earlier
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 2 years later
- 1449 Tumu Crisis — 5 years later
- 1467–1477 Ōnin War — 23 years later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 6 years earlier
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 6 years later
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 6 years later
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 1 year later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 44)
- Mehmed II (aged 12)
- Sejong the Great (aged 47)
- Charles VII (aged 41)
- Murad II (aged 40)
- Pachacuti (aged 26)
- Louis XI (aged 21)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 8)
- Ivan III (aged 4)
- Ulugh Beg (aged 50)