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Events
May 29 - Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).
July 17 - Battle of Castillon. The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed
October 19 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
Johann Gutenberg invents the movable type printing press.

Births
September 1 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (d. 1515)
October 13 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (died 1471)
November 22 - Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer (died 1505)
Alfonso d'Albuquerque, Portuguese admiral (died 1515)

Deaths
February 28 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (born 1400)
May 29 - Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle) (born 1404)
June 2 - Alvaro de Luna, Constable of Castile
July 17 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
July 20 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
December 24 - John Dunstable, English composer (born 1390)
Giovanni Giustiniani, Italian captain
Lucas Notaras, last Grand Duke of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire
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