Dates in which the "Middle Ages"/"Medieval Period" is said to have ended in different countries and regions in Europe

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Macedonia and Southern Balkans – 1389 (Battle of Kosovo; Ottomans solidify their hegemony in the Balkans)

Bulgaria – 1396 (Battle of Nicopolis; the Bulgarian Empire is conquered by the Ottomans)

Portugal – 1415 (Capture of Ceuta from Morocco and the establishment of the Portuguese Empire)

Savoy – 1416 (The County of Savoy becomes a Duchy)

Papal States – 1420 (The Western Schism of 1378 to 1417 officially comes to an end as Pope Martin V begins his reign in Rome after 100 years of Papal exile in Avignon)

Northern Greece – 1430 (Thessaloniki, the second most important city in the Byzantine Empire, is conquered by the Ottoman Empire, allowing the Turks to conquer most of Thessaly)

Tuscany – 1434 (The Medici Dynasty gains power in Florence)

Naples – 1442 (Aragon conquers Naples and the Neapolitan Renaissance flourishes)

Milan – 1450 (Francesco Sforza becomes Duke of Milan and implements reforms; Milan becomes a Renaissance center)

The rest of Greece, the Venetian Empire, and Turkey – 1453 (The Ottoman Empire captures Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and shifting Mediterranean trade and power dynamics)

France – 1453 (The Hundred Years’ War ends; England’s claim on the French throne collapses and France regains most continental territories)

Serbia – 1459 (The siege of Smederevo ends and the Serbian Despotate is conquered by the Ottomans)

Bosnia – 1463 (The Kingdom of Bosnia is conquered by the Ottoman Empire)

Royal Prussia – 1466 (The 6th Polish‑Teutonic War ends; western Prussia becomes a Polish vassal)

Burgundy – 1477 (End of the Burgundian Wars; Charles the Bold is killed, Burgundian power collapses, France gains most of the Duchy)

Albania – 1479 (The Albanian‑Ottoman Wars end; the League of Lezhë is disbanded, solidifying Ottoman control)

Russia – 1480 (Great Stand on the Ugra River; Ivan III ends the “Mongol‑Tartar” yoke)

The Low Countries – 1482 (The Burgundian Netherlands come under Habsburg control after the death of Mary the Rich)

England – 1485 (Battle of Bosworth Field; Richard III is killed, Henry Tudor becomes Henry VII, beginning the Tudor period)

Spain – 1492 (The Granada War ends; Castile and Aragon conquer Granada, ending the Reconquista)

Franche‑Comté – 1493 (Ceded by France to the Habsburgs, ending the Burgundian War of Succession)

Switzerland – 1499 (The Swabian War ends; Treaty of Basel grants Swiss de facto independence from the Holy Roman Empire)

Poland – 1505/1506 (Nihil novi Act limits royal legislative power; Sigismund I begins a long reign marking the Polish Golden Age)

Scotland – 1513 (Battle of Flodden; James IV is killed, Scotland enters a regency under Margaret Tudor)

Germany – 1517 (Martin Luther publishes the 95 Theses, beginning the Protestant Reformation)

Sweden and Finland – 1521/1523 (Gustav Vasa’s revolt ends the Kalmar Union; he becomes king in 1523)

Prussia – 1525 (Teutonic Prussia is secularized; becomes a Duchy and a Polish fief; Albert von Hohenzollern converts to Protestantism)

Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia, Slovakia, Transylvania – 1526 (Battle of Mohács; Hungary collapses, lands divided between Habsburgs and Ottomans)

Genoa – 1528 (Andrea Doria reforms the republic; new constitution limits Doge terms)

Brittany – 1532 (The Duchy of Brittany unites with France)

Ireland – 1534 (Thomas FitzGerald rebels against Henry VIII; begins the Tudor conquest of Ireland)

Denmark and Norway – 1536 (Christian III wins the Count’s Feud and implements the Reformation)

Estonia and Latvia – 1561 (Teutonic Order lands secularized into Courland and Livonia, vassals of Lithuania)

Lithuania – 1569 (Union of Lublin forms the Polish‑Lithuanian Commonwealth)

Romania – 1600 (Michael the Brave unites Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania for the first time; unity ends after his assassination)

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