Reign of Constantine XI Palaiologos
1449–1453 · Event
Last Roman emperor; killed defending the walls of Constantinople against Mehmed II's army.
On these timelines: Rome: Emperors, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Roman History, Master
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- Reign of Justinian I (527)
- Reign of Nero (54)
- Reign of Trajan (98)
- Reign of Tiberius (14)
- Reign of Claudius (41)
- Reign of Caligula (37)
Around 1449
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- The Last Supper (1495)
- Mehmed II (1432)