Timeline of Venice
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Venice, Veneto, Italy.
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Prior to 19th century
See also: Timeline of the Republic of Venice
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- 421 CE - Church established on Rialto.[1]
- 452 CE - "Consular government adopted."[1]
- 697 - Paolo Lucio Anafesto becomes Doge of Venice.[2]
- 733 - Bishopric established.[1]
- 775 - "Episcopal see" established on Olivolo, comprising Dorsoduro, Luprio, and Rialto.[3]
- 814 - Venetian seat of government relocated to Rialto per Treaty of Ratisbone.[4]
- 828 - Mark the Evangelist designated patron saint of city.[5]
- 836 - Doge's Chapel built.[4]
- 902 - St Mark's Campanile construction begins.[1]
- 1094 - St Mark's Basilica consecrated.[6]
- 1097 - Market established on Rialto.[4]
- 1106 - Fire.[1]
- 1157 - Bank established.[1]
- 1202 - Fourth Crusade embarks from Venice.
- 1228 - Fondaco dei Tedeschi built.
- 1264 - Bridge built across Grand Canal.[4]
- 1291 - Glassmakers relocate to Murano.
- 1297 - Legislative body formally established.[7]
- 1333 - Botanical garden planted.[1]
- 1348 - Plague.[5]
- 1394 - Public clock installed.[8]
- 1423
- Lazaretto (quarantine) established.[1]
- Francesco Foscari becomes doge.
- 1430 - Santi Giovanni e Paolo church rebuilt.
- 1447 - Scuola degli Albanesi founded.[9]
- 1495 - Printer Aldus Manutius in business.[5]
- 1507 - Cinque savi alla mercanzia (trade board) established.[10][11]
- 1514 - Fire on Rialto.[4]
- 1516 - Jewish ghetto in Cannaregio established.[5]
- 1520 - Palazzo dei Dieci Savi built.[4]
- 1527 - Jacopo Sansovino "appointed public architect."[5]
- 1541 - Sempiterni compagnie founded.[12]
- 1565 - Theatre built.[5]
- 1569 - 13 September: Arsenal explodes.[1]
- 1575 - Fondaco dei Turchi established.[13]
- 1587 - Banco della Piazza di Rialto (bank) opens.[4]
- 1591 - Rialto Bridge built of stone.[4]
- 1600 - Bridge of Sighs built.
- 1613 - Monteverdi becomes maestro di cappella of St Mark's Basilica.[14]
- 1630 - Accademia degli Incogniti founded.[15]
- 1637 - Teatro San Cassiano (opera house) opens.[14]
- 1682 - Dogana built.[1]
- 1703 - Vivaldi becomes concertmaster of Ospedale della Pietà.
- 1741 - Gazzetta di Venezia begins publication.[16]
- 1750 - Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia founded.
- 1755 - Teatro San Benedetto (theatre) opens.
- 1761 - Gozzi's L'Osservatore Veneto begins publication.[17]
- 1783 - Il Nuovo Postiglione newspaper begins publication.
- 1792 - La Fenice opera house built.[18]
- 1797 - Republic of Venice ends; Austrians in power per Treaty of Campo Formio.[5]
19th century
- 1805 - French in power per Peace of Pressburg.[1]
- 1812 - Ateneo Veneto founded.[15]
- 1814
- Austrians in power again.[1]
- Ala Napoleonica section of Piazza San Marco built.[18]
- 1815 - General Archive of Veneto established.[10]
- 1830
- City becomes a free port.[1]
- Museo Correr (museum) established.
- 1842 - Milan–Venice railway begins operating; Venezia Mestre railway station opens.
- 1848 - Republic of San Marco established.
- 1854 - Accademia bridge built.[4]
- 1857 - Population: 118,173.[2]
- 1859 - Venice becomes part of the Italian confederation of Austria, per Treaty of Villafranca.[1]
- 1861 - Venezia Santa Lucia railway station opens.
- 1866 - Venice becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy per Treaty of Vienna (1866).[1]
- 1868 - Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio (business school) established.
- 1876
- Liceo e Società Musicale Benedetto Marcello established.
- L'Adriatico newspaper begins publication.[16]
- 1883 - Lido and Malamocco annexed to city.[19]
- 1887 - Il Gazzettino newspaper begins publication.
- 1895 - Venice Biennale begins.
20th century
- 1907 - F.B.C. Unione Venezia (football club) formed.
- 1913 - Stadio Pierluigi Penzo (stadium) opens.
- 1917 - Marghera becomes part of Venice.[19]
- 1923 - Pellestrina becomes part of Venice.[19]
- 1924 - Burano, Ca'Savio, and Murano become part of Venice.[19]
- 1926
- Chirignago , Favaro, Malcontenta , Mestre, and Zelarino become part of Venice.[19]
- Nicelli Airport begins operating.[19]
- 1927 - A.C. Mestre football club formed.
- 1931 - Harry's Bar in business.
- 1932 - Venice Film Festival begins.
- 1933 - Ponte della Libertà (bridge) opens.
- 1937 - Collegio Navale della Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (naval school) established.
- 1940 - Università Iuav di Venezia (architecture institute) founded.[19]
- 1949 - Cinema Teatro Corso built in Mestre.[20]
- 1958 - Hotel Cipriani in business.
- 1966 - 4 November: Flood.[21][22]
- 1970 - Veneto regional administration implemented.[23]
- 1978 - Società Filologica Veneta founded.[19]
- 1980 - June: 6th G7 summit held.
- 1987 - June: 13th G7 summit held.
- 1993 - Massimo Cacciari becomes mayor.[23]
- 1999 - City master plan created.[23]
21st century
- 2000 - Paolo Costa becomes mayor.[23]
- 2005 - Massimo Cacciari becomes mayor again.
- 2006 - Veritas (water/trash municipal entity) established.[24]
- 2008 - Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia established.
- 2010 - Giorgio Orsoni becomes mayor.
- 2013 - Population: 259,263 comune; 865,421 province.[25]
- 2014
See also
- History of the city of Venice
- List of mayors of Venice, 1806-present
- Timeline of the Republic of Venice
- Other cities in Italy
- Timeline of Bologna
- Timeline of Florence
- Timeline of Genoa
- Timeline of Milan
- Timeline of Naples
- Timeline of Palermo
- Timeline of Rome
- Timeline of Siena
- Timeline of Trieste
- Timeline of Turin
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 George Henry Townsend (1867), "Venice", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Venice", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- ↑ Umberto Benigni (1912). "Venice". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York. pp. 333–341.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Venice". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 745+. OCLC 31045650.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Peter Ackroyd (2010). "Venetian Chronology". Venice: Pure City. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-53153-5.
- ↑ "Italian Peninsula, 1000–1400 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved November 2014.
- ↑ Gerhard Rösch (2002). "The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian society, 1286-1323". In John Jeffries Martin and Dennis Romano. Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297–1797. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-7308-9.
- ↑ Richard John Goy (2006). Building Renaissance Venice. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-11292-0.
- ↑ A Week in Venice: a Complete Guide-book (4th ed.). Venice: Colombo Coen and Son. 1880.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Guide to the Archival Holdings". State Archives of Venice. Retrieved November 2014.
- ↑ David Chambers and Brian Pullan, ed. (2001). Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8424-8.
- ↑ Edward Muir (1986). Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-10200-7.
- ↑ Gabor Agoston and Bruce Alan Masters, ed. (2009). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Joseph P. Swain (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7825-9.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Joanne M. Ferraro (2012). Venice: History of the Floating City. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88359-7.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Nicola Bernardini (1890). "Provincia de Venezia". Guida della stampa periodica italiana [Guide to Italian Periodicals] (in Italian). Lecce: R. Tipografia editrice salentina dei fratelli Spacciante.
- ↑ L'osservatore veneto: periodico di Gasparo Gozzi, pubblicato integralmente secondo l'edizione originale del 1761 (in Italian), Florence: G. Barbèra, 1914
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Deborah Howard (2002). The Architectural History of Venice. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09029-1.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 R. J. B. Bosworth (2014). Italian Venice: A History. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-21011-8.
- ↑ "Movie Theaters in Venice". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved November 2014.
- ↑ "Venipedia". Retrieved November 2014.
- ↑ C. A. Fletcher; T. Spencer (2005). Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and Its Lagoon: State of Knowledge. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84046-0.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 Mariolina Toniolo; Turiddo Pugliese (2005). "Venice". In Anton Kreukels et al. Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning: Comparative Case Studies of European City-Regions. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-49606-8.
- ↑ "Venice Journal: City Known for Its Water Turns to Tap to Cut Trash", New York Times, 11 June 2009
- ↑ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved November 2014.
- ↑ "Venice mayor Giorgio Orsoni arrested on bribery charges over dam", Financial Times, 4 June 2014
- ↑ "George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin's wedding", The Guardian, 29 September 2014
This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Josiah Conder (1834), "Venice", Italy, The Modern Traveller 32, London: J.Duncan
- Mariana Starke (1839), "Venice", Travels in Europe (9th ed.), Paris: A. and W. Galignani
- Charles Knight, ed. (1867). "Venice". Geography. English Cyclopaedia 4. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co.
- "Venice", Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy (16th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1897, OCLC 2231483
- "Venice", Jewish Encyclopedia 12, New York, 1907
- "Venice", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- "Venice", Northern Italy (14th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913
- John Block Friedman; Kristen Mossler Figg (2000). "Venice". Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 625+. ISBN 978-1-135-59094-9.
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