The fall of Trebizond
Mehmed II takes the last fragment of Byzantium
The Empire of Trebizond arose on the southern shore of the Black Sea in 1204, when the crusaders took Constantinople. Eight years after Constantinople fell, Mehmed II besieged Trebizond by land and sea, and Emperor David Megas Komnenos surrendered. It was the end of the last Greek state to succeed Byzantium.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — 11 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — 8 years later
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 17 years later
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — 19 years later
Asia
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 15 years earlier
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 23 years earlier
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 11 years earlier
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Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 16 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 61)
- Mehmed II (aged 29)
- Christopher Columbus (aged 10)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 9)
- Charles VII (aged 58)
- Pachacuti (aged 43)
- Louis XI (aged 38)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 25)
- Ivan III (aged 21)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 10)