In Rome, a plot by the humanist nobleman Stefano Porcari to overthrow Pope Nicholas V was discovered and put down by Papal forces in early January. Porcari escaped capture multiple times, but was eventually discovered hiding in a chest, and was executed on January 9.

The siege of Constantinople (1453), French miniature by Jean Le Tavernier after 1455. The Fall of Constantinople, also known as the Conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire. The city was captured on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination of a 55-day siege which had begun on 6 April.

Apr 8, 2018 · The Turkish army of Mehmet II attacks Constantinople in 1453. The Byzantine empire was in tatters, and the population continued to shrink, but the last remnants of the Romans stumbled on. In 1448, the last Roman/Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI, ascended to …

The western empire collapsed in 476 AD, but the eastern empire lasted until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. By 100 BC, the city of Rome had expanded its rule from the Italian peninsula to most of the Mediterranean and beyond.

Fall of Constantinople, (May 29, 1453), conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire. The dwindling Byzantine Empire came to an end when the Ottomans breached Constantinople’s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days.

May 26, 2024 · On May 29th, 1453, the great city of Constantinople fell to the besieging Ottoman army, marking the definitive end of the Byzantine Empire – the once-mighty eastern half of the ancient Roman Empire.

ROME AND ROMANIA, 27 BC-1453 AD. Emperors of the Roman and the so-called Byzantine Empires; Princes, Kings, and Tsars of Numidia, Judaea, Bulgaria, Serbia, Wallachia, & Moldavia; and the Sulṭāns of Rūm. Die Römer waren ja die Starken und Vornehmen, wie sie stärker und vornehmer bisher auf Erden nie dagewesen, selbst niemals geträumt ...

Jul 20, 2024 · Rome started out as a small, hilly settlement by the Tiber River in the middle of the Italian boot, surrounded by more powerful neighbors. By the time Rome became an empire, the territory covered by the term "Rome" looked completely different. It reached its greatest extent in the second century CE.

Rome and Romania is continued in The Ottoman Sultans, 1290-1924 AD and Successors of Rome: Germania, Francia, & Russia, 395-1945.

Nov 18, 2023 · On April 6, 1453, he began the blockade of Constantinople by attacking from both sea and land with the Ottomans. At that time, the Byzantines Empire was outgunned and outnumbered with only 7,000 soldiers, which was difficult to defend the city from the Ottoman.