Siege of Belgrade
John Hunyadi halts the conqueror of Constantinople
Three years after taking Constantinople, Mehmed II besieged Belgrade, but the Hungarian commander John Hunyadi with a peasant crusade broke the siege. The pope ordered church bells rung at noon to mark the victory, and Hungary held the Danube for another 70 years.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — 13 years later
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 22 years later
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — 24 years later
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 3 years earlier
Asia
- c. 1431 Fall of Angkor — 25 years earlier
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 10 years earlier
- 1449 Tumu Crisis — 7 years earlier
- 1467–1477 Ōnin War — 11 years later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 18 years earlier
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 6 years earlier
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 6 years earlier
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 11 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 56)
- Mehmed II (aged 24)
- Christopher Columbus (aged 5)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 4)
- Charles VII (aged 53)
- Pachacuti (aged 38)
- Louis XI (aged 33)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 20)
- Ivan III (aged 16)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 5)