Bernardin Frankopan, Croatian nobleman, diplomat and soldier (d. 1529)
Bernardin Frankopan (1453–1529) was a Croatian nobleman and diplomat, a member of the influential Frangipani (Frankopan) noble family of Croatia. As one of the wealthiest and most distinguished aristocrats in the kingdom in his day, he had one of the leading roles in mounting defences of Croatian statehood against the Ottoman expansion.
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Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople. - 29May
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Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.