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  • John Dunstaple or Dunstable (c. 1390 – December 24, 1453) was an ... He died on Christmas Eve 1453, as recorded in his epitaph, which was ...
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  • command of Sultan Mehmed II, on Tuesday, May 29, 1453. This marked not only the final destruction of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the death of Constantine ...
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  • and controversial King of France from 1422 to 1453. Henry was not greatly interested in ruling, but he was pious and a patron of education, founding ...
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  • in 1821. After capturing Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Turks first crossed into Europe in 1354, the start of the Ottoman Wars in Europe ...
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  • of this, when Constantinople fell in 1453 to the Ottoman Turks, Sultan ... Emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449–1453), and entered the Pantokratoros ...
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  • Byzantine Empire and, following its fall in 1453, of the Ottoman Empire until ... fell to the Ottoman Empire on May 29, 1453, during the reign of Constantine ...
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  • didn't entitle him to that treatment) (1453, Alhandra - Goa, December ... Alfonso de Albuquerque was born in Alhandra in the year of 1453, near ...
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  • and the Clash of Islam and the West, 1453. (New York: Hyperion, 2005 ... and the Clash of Islam and the West, 1453. New York: Hyperion, 2005 ...
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  • 160 cannonsL.S. Stavrianos, Balkans Since 1453 (New York, NY: NYU Press, ... * Stavrianos, L.S. Balkans Since 1453. New York, NY: NYU Press, Publishers ...
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  • composed on the fall of Constantinople in 1453, his famous mass based on ... Dufay also composed four laments on the fall of Constantinople (1453 ...
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  • and ended its thousand year history, in 1453, as a Greek Orthodox state: ... a two-month siege by Mehmed II on May 29, 1453. The last Byzantine emperor ...
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  • in all its major campaigns, including the 1453 capture of Constantinople ... in all its major campaigns, including the 1453 capture of Constantinople ...
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  • general (1444–1446) and regent (1446–1453) of the Kingdom of Hungary ... On his return to Hungary at the beginning of 1453, Ladislaus named ...
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  • at Kahuripan until his death in 1453. A three-year period without ... # Rajasawardhana, born Bhre Pamotan, styled Brawijaya II (1451-1453) ...
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  • control of the central government. In 1453, after the Ottomans captured ... . With the capture of Constantinople in 1453, the state was on its way ...
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  • 40 Jews were burned at the stake in Breslau June 2, 1453. Others, fearing torture, committed suicide. A rabbi by the name of Pinheas hanged himself. ...
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  • prevent the Fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. For his stand against the filioque and papal supremacy, Mark of Ephesus came to be venerated ...
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  • Donald M. Nicol, The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 9780521439916), p. 121. ...
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  • Constantinople, not so many years earlier (1453). ==Legacy== Granada still celebrates January 2, which is traditionally also a day of mourning ...
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  • Donatello returned to Florence in 1453. Until 1456, he worked on a wooden Mary Magdalene, an unusually expressionistic work depicting the saint ...
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  • du Moyen Âge français: Chronologie commentée 486-1453. Paris, FR: Perrin. ISBN 2870275870 House of Capet| | |24 October|996 before=Hugh the Great ...
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  • . A later work, the Mainz Psalter of 1453, presumably designed by Gutenberg but published under the imprint of his successors Johann Fust and ...
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  • The Turks destroyed the walls of Constantinople in 1453 with 13 enormous cannon bores up to 90 cm firing a 320 kg projectile a distance of over ...
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  • Bridget lived in the time of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) with much religious and political struggle. She was married for over 20 years ...
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  • On May 29, 1453 the city was conquered by the emerging Ottoman Empire. As the Ottoman Turks closed in on Constantinople, they constructed a fortification ...
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  • survived until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. Like Constantine, Valerian chose the East, not the West, as his own theater. Valerian may have contributed ...
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  • Bible, on a printing press with movable type in 1453. The invention of the printing press gave rise to some of the first forms of mass communication ...
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  • became a major stopping-point on pilgrimages. In 1453 the remains of Saint Martin were transferred to a magnificent new reliquary offered by Charles ...
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  • Marcus Aurelius, from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond, concluding in ... Marcus Aurelius, from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond, concluding in ...
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  • V from relatives of the Byzantium Emperor in 1453. This veil was given by a Vatican cardinal to a Spanish priest, Mosen Pedro Mena, who took it ...
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  • Byzantium (324-1453) saw itself as the center of the Christian empire, and had colonies of Italians living among its citizens, participating ...
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  • of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 had a great effect upon the ... and England, lasting 116 years from 1337 to 1453. It was fought primarily over ...
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  • as the Byzantine Empire continued until 1453 C.E. From the time of Augustus ... of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The Holy Roman Empire, an ...
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  • routes to India with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, discovered a new sea route to India by way of the Horn of Africa. Originally purely a commercial ...
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  • on his campaigns when only twelve years of age. In 1453, he was created count of Bistercze, and was knighted at the siege of Belgrade in 1454. The same ...
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  • *S. Francesco, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini (1447,1453-50) *Façade of Palazzo Rucellai (1446-51) *Completion of the facade of Santa Maria Novella ...
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  • became a Mosque after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. For some, Atatürk remains an inspirational figure who pointed the direction that not only Turkey ...
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  • and was continued by the Greeks and Romans until 1453 C.E., with the fall of Constantinople. Ruth G. Kassinger. Dyes: From Sea Snails to Synthetics ...
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  • Following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Empire entered ... Following the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Empire ...
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  • ratified after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. In this way the Athonite independence was somewhat guaranteed. [[Image:Saint Paul in Holy Stavronikita ...
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  • at Constantinople, or New Rome, survived until 1453. Some European nations saw themselves as so indebted to the legacy of the Roman Empire, whose ...
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  • a model for Fra Mauro to draw his world map in 1453. Cartography was then reflecting the discovery of the time as today we explored the universe. The ...
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  • , the final Fall of Constantinople in 1453 resulted in Eastern scholars fleeing the Muslim hordes bringing ancient manuscripts to the West, which ...
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  • In 1453, Henry suffered the first of several bouts of mental illness, so a Council of Regency was set up, headed by the powerful and popular ...
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  • rapists during the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). William Shakespeare included a rape in his Titus Andronicus, which gives evidence of a general ...
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  • Europe are known as incunabula. A man born in 1453, the year of the fall of Constantinople, could look back from his fiftieth year on a lifetime in ...
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  • the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It served as a mosque until ... After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453,Müller ...
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  • of Luke, as conceived by Andrea Mantegna, c. 1453-1454]] The traditional view is that the Book of Acts was written by the physician Luke, a companion ...
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  • by the Ottomans at the siege of Constantinople in 1453, although it is very likely that the Ottomans themselves were influenced by the Mongol invasions ...
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  • England's King Henry VI was to suffer in 1453: Henry VI was nephew to Charles VII and grandson to Charles VI. As royal counselor Jacques Gélu cautioned ...
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