Timeline of Venice
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Venice, Veneto, Italy.
Prior to 19th century[]
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Venice in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
The Grand Canal in Venice, c. 1730
- 421 CE - Church established on Rialto.[1] First mention of Poveglia.
- 452 - "Consular government adopted."[1]
- 697 - Paolo Lucio Anafesto becomes Doge of Venice.[2]
- 774 - Catholic diocese established on Olivolo, comprising Dorsoduro, Luprio, and Rialto.[3][4]
- 814 - Venetian seat of government relocated to Rialto per Treaty of Ratisbone.[5]
- 828 - Mark the Evangelist designated patron saint of city.[6]
- 836 - Doge's Chapel built.[5]
- 902 - St Mark's Campanile construction begins.[1]
- 1094 - St Mark's Basilica consecrated.[7]
- 1097 - Market established on Rialto.[5]
- 1131 - Church of San Clemente is the first established settlement on the Isola di San Clemente.
- 1157 - Bank established.[1]
- 1173 - Rialto Bridge made of wood opened, designed by Nicolò Barattieri.[8]
- 1202 - Fourth Crusade embarks from Venice.
- 1228 - Fondaco dei Tedeschi built.
- 1264 - Bridge built across Grand Canal.[5]
- 1291 - Glassmakers relocate to Murano.
- 1297 - Legislative body formally established.[9]
- 1333 - Botanical garden planted.[1]
- 1348 - Plague.[6]
- 1360 - Ponte della Paglia (bridge) built (approximate date).
- 1386 - Jewish burial ground granted on the Lido.
- 1394 - Public clock installed.[10]
- 1423
- Lazaretto (quarantine) established on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio.[1]
- Francesco Foscari becomes doge.
- 1430 - Santi Giovanni e Paolo church rebuilt.
- 1447 - Scuola degli Albanesi founded.[11]
- 1469 - Printing press in operation.[12]
- 1475 - De honesta voluptate et valetudine cookbook published.[13]
- 1495 - Printer Aldus Manutius in business.[6]
- 1500 - Jacopo de' Barbari's woodcut View of Venice is published
- 1501 - Petrucci's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (songbook) published.[14]
- 1507 - Cinque savi alla mercanzia (trade board) established.[15][16]
- 1514 - Fire on Rialto.[5]
- 1516 - Jewish ghetto in Cannaregio established.[6]
- 1520 - Palazzo dei Dieci Savi built.[5]
- 1527 - Jacopo Sansovino "appointed public architect."[6]
- 1541 - Sempiterni compagnie founded.[17]
- 1548 - Population: 158,069.[8]
- 1565 - Theatre built.[6]
- 1569 - 13 September: Arsenal explodes.[1]
- 1575 - Fondaco dei Turchi established.[18]
- 1575-77 - Plague.
- 1587 - Banco della Piazza di Rialto (bank) opens.[5]
- 1591 - Rialto Bridge built of stone.[5][8]
- 1600 - Bridge of Sighs built.
- 1613 - Monteverdi becomes maestro di cappella of St Mark's Basilica.[19]
- 1630
- 1629–31 Italian plague strikes Venice.
- Accademia degli Incogniti founded.[20]
- 1637 - Teatro San Cassiano (opera house) opens.[19][21]
- 1642 - Premiere of Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea.[21]
- 1645 - Coffee house in business.[22]
- 1649 - Premiere of Cavalli's opera Giasone.[23]
- 1678 - Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi is born on 4 March.
- 1682 - Dogana built.[1]
- 1706 - Population: 140,256.[8]
- 1720 - Vezzi porcelain begins
- 1720 - Caffè Florian in business.
- 1741 - Il Nuovo Postiglione newspaper begins publication.
- 1744 - Joseph Smith becomes British consul.
- 1750 - Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia founded.
- 1755 - Teatro San Benedetto (theatre) opens.
- 1761 - Gozzi's L'Osservatore Veneto begins publication.[24]
- 1764 - Cozzi porcelain begins
- 1778 - Notizie del mondo newspaper begins publication.
- 1785 - Population: 139,095.[8]
- 1792 - La Fenice opera house built.[25]
- 1797 - Republic of Venice ends; Austrians in power per Treaty of Campo Formio.[6]
19th century[]
- 1805 - French in power per Peace of Pressburg.[1]
- 1812 - Ateneo Veneto founded.[20]
- 1814
- 1815 - General Archive of Veneto established.[15]
- 1830
- City becomes a free port.[1]
- Museo Correr (museum) established.
- 1842 - Milan–Venice railway begins operating; Venezia Mestre railway station opens.
- 1844
- Premiere of Verdi's opera Ernani.[21]
- Mental asylum established on Isola di San Clemente.
- 1848 - Republic of San Marco established.
- 1853 - Premiere of Verdi's opera La Traviata.[23]
- 1854 - Accademia bridge built.[5]
- 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.
- 1870 - Artificial creation of the island of Sacca Sessola completed.
- 1871 - Population: 128,901.[26]
- 1876
- Liceo e Società Musicale Benedetto Marcello established.
- L'Adriatico newspaper begins publication.[27]
- 1880 - 16 June: John Cross, on honeymoon with English novelist George Eliot, jumps from their hotel room into the Grand Canal in an episode of mental disorder.
- 1881 - Population: 132,826.[8]
- 1883
- Lido and Malamocco annexed to city.[28]
- 13 February: German composer Richard Wagner dies at Ca' Vendramin Calergi of a heart attack, age 69.
- 1887 - Il Gazzettino newspaper begins publication.
- 1889 - 12 December: English poet Robert Browning dies at his son's home Ca' Rezzonico, age 77.
- 1892 - Conversion of Sacca Sessola into a hospital for contagious diseases is begun.
- 1895 - Venice Biennale begins.
- 1897 - Population: 155,899.[29]
20th century[]
Venice in 1985.
- 1906 - Population: 169,563.[8]
- 1907 - F.B.C. Unione Venezia (football club) formed.
- 1910 - 27 April: Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issues the manifesto Contro Venezia passatista ("Against Past-loving Venice") in the Piazza San Marco.
- 1913 - Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo (stadium) opens.
- 1917 - Marghera becomes part of Venice.[28]
- 1922 - Mental asylum established on Poveglia.
- 1923 - Pellestrina becomes part of Venice.[28]
- 1924 - Burano, Ca'Savio, and Murano become part of Venice.[28]
- 1926
- , Favaro, , Mestre, and become part of Venice.[28]
- Nicelli Airport begins operating.[28]
- 1927 - A.C. Mestre football club formed.
- 1929 - 19 August: Russian-born ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev dies in Venice and is buried on the Isola di San Michele.
- 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.[28]
- 1949 - Cinema Teatro Corso built in Mestre.[30]
- 1958 - Hotel Cipriani in business.
- 1966 - 4 November: 1966 Venice flood: highest acqua alta.[31][32]
- 1970 - Veneto regional administration implemented.[33]
- 1972 - 1 November: American poet Ezra Pound dies in the Civil Hospital and is buried on the Isola di San Michele.
- 1978 - Società Filologica Veneta founded.[28]
- 1980 - June: 6th G7 summit held.
- 1987 - June: 13th G7 summit held.
- 1993 - Massimo Cacciari becomes mayor.[33]
- 1996 - 29 January: La Fenice opera house is destroyed by fire.
- 1999 - City master plan created.[33]
- 2000
- Paolo Costa becomes mayor.[33]
- Sacca Sessola sold to a multi-national company for conversion into a private tourist hotel complex.
21st century[]
- 2003 - Buildings on Isola di San Clemente refurbished as a luxury hotel complex.
- 2005 - Massimo Cacciari becomes mayor again.
- 2006 - Veritas (water/trash municipal entity) established.[34]
- 2008 - Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia established.
- 2010 - Giorgio Orsoni becomes mayor.
- 2013 - Population: 259,263 comune; 865,421 province.[35]
- 2014
- 2015 - held; Luigi Brugnaro becomes mayor.
- 2019 - 12 November: Second highest acqua alta hits an already flooded city.[38]
- 2020 - the city of Venice is hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism is blocked and the Carnival of Venice is closed early.
- 2021 - 1600th Anniversary of the Foundation of Venice - Venice will be celebrating the 1,600th anniversary of its founding.[39]
See also[]
- History of the city of Venice (it)
- List of mayors of Venice, 1806–present
- Timeline of the Republic of Venice
Timelines of other cities in the macroregion of Northeast Italy:(it)
- Emilia-Romagna region: Timeline of Bologna; Ferrara; Forlì; Modena; Parma; Piacenza; Ravenna; Reggio Emilia; Rimini
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia region: Timeline of Trieste
- Trentino-South Tyrol region: Timeline of Trento
- Veneto region: Timeline of Padua; Treviso; Verona; Vicenza
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