Historical Figure
Constantine XI
Last Byzantine Emperor from 1449 to 1453
About Constantine XI
Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos or Dragaš Palaeologus was the last reigning Byzantine emperor from 23 January 1449 until his death in battle at the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453. Constantine's death marked the definitive end of the Eastern Roman Empire, which traced its origin to Constantine the Great's foundation of Constantinople as the Roman Empire's new capital in 330.Wikipedia ↗
Associated Events
Empire330 CE – 1453 CE
Byzantine Empire
The Eastern Roman Empire survived the fall of Rome by nearly a thousand years, preserving Greco-Roman law, literature, and Orthodox Christianity while serving as a cultural and military bulwark between Europe and successive Persian, Arab, and Turkic empires.
Empire1453 CE – 1453 CE
Fall of Constantinople
The Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the last vestige of the Roman Empire.