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The Fall of Constantinople – The Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium

THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

Some Events

Byzantines threaten to release Ottoman claimant Orhan

1452 14 February Venice agrees to send gunpowder and armour to Constantinople

15 April-31 August Ottomans build Rumcli Hisar; this encourages theVenetian Senate to prepare ships and send an embassy to discover the sultan s intentions

28 August Mehmet II examines the walls of Constantinople then returns to Edime

Autumn Mehmet II start assembling troops at Edime; Bvzantine emperor gathers grain and people into Constantinople

I September Mehmet II arrives at Edime; Hungarian gunfounder Urban transfers from Bvzantine to Ottoman service and starts making giant cannon in Edime

6 September Ottoman fleet returns to Gallipoli from Bosphorus

October Mehmet II sends troops to raid Byzantine Morea; Cardinal Isidore arrives in Constantinople with 200 archers

November Concern about Rumeli Hisar leads Genoa to send Giovanni Giustiniani Longo with men and ships to Constantinople

10 November Two Venetian merchant ships from the Black Sea pass Rumeli Hisar under fire

25 November Venetian ship from the Black Sea is sunk by gunfire from Rumcli Hisar

December Venetian galley from Trebizond under command of Giacomo Coco sails through the Bosphorus under fire;

Venetian council in Constantinople agrees that no Venetian ships should leave without permission

12 December Joint Orthodox-Latin religious service in Hagia Sophia cathedral and agreement to a Union of the Churches

1452—53 Winter Byzantine emperor sends ships to purchase food 3nd military equipment in the Aegean;

Bvzantine galleys pillage Turkish coastal villages in the Sea of Marmara; defences of Constantinople repaired; roads strengthened from Edime to Constantinople; Mehmet plans siege of Constantinople