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| 1453 |
| | | The Christian emperor Constantine XI dies in the fighting in Constantinople, as the Greek Byzantine empire yields to that of the Ottoman Turks | |
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| 1453 |
| | | The French win a convincing victory at Castillon, recovering the last stronghold (except Calais) held by the English in France | |
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| 1453 |
| | | Charles VII's full recovery of Aquitaine and Normandy effectively brings to an end the Hundred Years' War | |
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| 1455 |
| | | An engagement at St Albans is the first battle in the 30-year struggle between the white and red roses of York and Lancaster | |
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| c. 1455 |
| | | Master ES becomes the first artist to produce engravings | |
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| 1456 |
| | | The Turks, besieging Belgrade, are dispersed by a peasant army inspired by the preaching of a Franciscan friar, St John of Capistrano | |
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| 1456 |
| | | A copy of Europe's first book printed from movable type, the Gutenberg Bible, is completed in Mainz | |
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| 1458 |
| | | Matthias Corvinus begins a long reign which brings Moravia, Silesia and much of Austria within the Hungarian kingdom | |
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| c. 1460 |
| | | Oil paints, long familiar in the Netherlands, begin to be adopted in Italy in place of tempera | |
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| 1460 |
| | | The Turks complete the occupation of Greece, which remains within the Ottoman empire until the nineteenth century | |
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