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1453 is also the formal end of the 'Hundred Years' War', with England's final route at Castillon in July. Seeing as how this was the first battle in Western Europe where gunpowder had a significant effect on the outcome, 1453 has been taken as a good year to close the Middle Ages. Another factor to consider is that the moving-type printing press started becoming extremely affluent in this decade.
Personally, I would argue that the period between 1453 and 1563 (the closing of the Council of Trent) is a sort of transitional period and should be counted as neither medieval nor 'early modern' (or both, if you want to view it like that). This has the added bonus of being able to consider this era to be the final phase of the Renaissance, and thus there's less ambiguity about when that nebulous cultural era came to an end and the Baroque era began. Plus, I don't find it particularly useful to have the epoch shift immediately as the New World is discovered or the Protestant Reformation kicks off in Wittenberg, as these events are what began massively important focuses on colonialism and ecclesiology, respectfully, but were not world-changing from the get-go in the way e.g. Pearl Harbor was.
These categorizations are entirely worthless and wonderfully arbitrary so there's not much point in putting a lot of effort into conformity on the matter though, which is why you'll never catch me being nitpicky about this.
Personally, I would argue that the period between 1453 and 1563 (the closing of the Council of Trent) is a sort of transitional period and should be counted as neither medieval nor 'early modern' (or both, if you want to view it like that). This has the added bonus of being able to consider this era to be the final phase of the Renaissance, and thus there's less ambiguity about when that nebulous cultural era came to an end and the Baroque era began. Plus, I don't find it particularly useful to have the epoch shift immediately as the New World is discovered or the Protestant Reformation kicks off in Wittenberg, as these events are what began massively important focuses on colonialism and ecclesiology, respectfully, but were not world-changing from the get-go in the way e.g. Pearl Harbor was.
These categorizations are entirely worthless and wonderfully arbitrary so there's not much point in putting a lot of effort into conformity on the matter though, which is why you'll never catch me being nitpicky about this.