A Chinese emperor was captured by nomads and later became emperor again.
The Oirats seized the Zhengtong Emperor in 1449; freed a year later, he was kept locked up by his brother, and in 1457 he took back the throne.
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- 1450 · 1453 When Constantinople fell in 1453, Gutenberg was already printing in Mainz: the last Roman Empire vanished in the first years of the printed book.
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