Deaths on February 28

Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine

Died on February 28, 1453

Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)

Isabella (1400 – 28 February 1453) was suo jure Duchess of Lorraine, from 25 January 1431 to her death in 1453. She was also Queen of Naples by marriage to René of Anjou. Isabella ruled the Kingdom of Naples and her husband's domains in France as regent during his imprisonment in Burgundy in 1435-1438.

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Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine

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Events on 1453

20 Apr

Blockade runner
Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
29 May

Mehmed the Conqueror
Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.