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1430 29 March: Thessalonica captured by the Turks.
Glarenza and Patras captured by the Greeks of Mistra. Centurione
Zaccaria dispossessed.
Caterina Asanina Zaccaria, his daughter, marries Thomas Palaiologos,
Byzantine despot of the Morea, bringing any remaining lands as her
dowry.
1432 Death of Centurione ii Zaccaria, the last Latin prince of Achaea.
1434 Death of Antonio I Acciaiuoli.
1438–39 General Council of Ferrara-Florence.
1438 March: John viii Palaeologos and Greek delegation arrive in Ferrara.
John left Constantinople in November 1437.
1439 6 July: union of the Greek and Latin Churches declared. Agreed by John
viii but repudiated in Constantinople.
1440 Pope Eugenius iv declares a crusade against the Turks.
1443 Hexamilion Wall rebuilt again.
1444 10 November: Hungarian and Slav crusaders annihilated at Varna.
1446 Turks ravage the Peloponnese and occupy the Hexamilion Wall.
1453 29 May: Sultan Mehmed ii (1451–81) captures Constantinople after a
siege of two months. He gained the epithet “Fatih” (Conqeror) therby,
following previous unsuccessful sieges by his predecessors in 1390,
1395, 1400 and 1422.
1456 4 June: Athens occupied by the Turks, ending Latin rule in central
Greece.
1460 Conquest of the Morea by the Turks. Venice retains control of Modon,
Coron, Nauplia, Argos and Euboea.
1462 Turks capture north Aegean islands including Mytilene.
1463–79 First Veneto-Ottoman War.
1464 Campaign of Sigismondo Malatesta from Messenia to Mistra.
1470 12 July: Turks capture Negroponte (Chalkis).
1479 24 January: treaty of Constantinople; Venice cedes Argos, Euboea, and
Lemnos to the Turks.
The Turks also wrest the County of Cephalonia from the Tocco dynasty.
1480 23 May–17 August: The Hospitallers withstand Turkish siege in Rhodes.
July 1480–May 1481: Turks besiege and sack Otranto.
1482 Venice recovers Zakynthos from the Turks.
1499–1503 Second Veneto-Ottoman War.
1500 Venice loses Coron, Modon, and Old Navarino to the Turks but annexes
Cephalonia and Ithaca.
1502 Venice briefly recovers the island of Lefkada from the Turks but loses it
again the next year.