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1453 |
September 30: Pope Nicholas V, Etsi ecclesia Christi |
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1454 |
February: The “Feast of the Pheasant” at the court of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy |
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April: Diet of Regensburg and Peace of Lodi |
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October: Diet of Frankfurt; Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Constantinopolitana clades |
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1455 |
February: Diet of Wiener Neustadt |
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March 24: Death of Nicholas V |
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April 8: Election of Alfonso de Borja as Pope Callixtus III |
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May: Pope Callixtus III, Ad summum pontificates apicem (May 15). The bull reissues and revises Nicholas V’s call to crusade in Etsi ecclesia Christi. |
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June–July: Assembly at Győr; beginning of John of Capistrano’s preaching tour |
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August: Beginning of efforts of Juan Carvajal as papal legate in Hungary |
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November: King Alfonso of Aragon, Naples, and Sicily takes the cross |
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December: Cardinal Ludovico Scarampo named legate and captain of the papal fleet sponsored by Callixtus III |
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1456 |
February: Diet in Buda opens on February 6; Juan Carvajal publishes bull of crusading and commissions Capistrano to preach (February 14) |
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June 29: Callixtus III issues Cum his superioribus, calling on all Christians to pray for the campaign that will end at Belgrade |
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July 2: John of Capistrano and first wave of crusaders arrive at Belgrade; Ottoman siege and bombardment begins soon after |
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July 14: Hunyadi’s flotilla approaches Belgrade via the Danube; naval battle with Ottoman fleet ends in victory for Hunyadi |
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July 21–3: Final assault on Belgrade and retreat of Mehmed II |
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July–August: News of the events of Belgrade makes its way to Budapest, Vienna, and beyond |
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August 6: News of the events of Belgrade reaches Rome; Scarampo’s fleet departs from Naples for the Aegean |
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August 11: Death of John Hunyadi; his son Ladislaus Hunyadi becomes his heir |
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October 23: Death of John of Capistrano |
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November: Rivalry between Ladislaus Hunyadi and Ulrich II, Count of Celje, ends in the assassination of the Count at Belgrade. Ladislaus Hunyadi is executed by King Ladislaus V of Hungary. |
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1457 |
August 6: Callixtus III, Inter divinae dispensationis commemorates the first anniversary of the arrival of news of Belgrade in Rome. The bull links the feast of the Transfiguration to the victory of a Triune God. |