Timeline of Venice explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Venice, Veneto, Italy.

Prior to 19th century

See also: Timeline of the Republic of Venice.

• 421 CE – Church established on Rialto. First mention of Poveglia.
• 452 – "Consular government adopted."
• 697 – Paolo Lucio Anafesto becomes Doge of Venice.
• 774 – Catholic diocese established on Olivolo, comprising Dorsoduro, Luprio, and Rialto.^[1]
• 814 – Venetian seat of government relocated to Rialto per Treaty of Ratisbone.
• 828 – Mark the Evangelist designated patron saint of city.
• 836 – Doge's Chapel built.
• 902 – St Mark's Campanile construction begins.
• 1094 – St Mark's Basilica consecrated.^[2]
• 1097 – Market established on Rialto.
• 1131 – Church of San Clemente is the first established settlement on the Isola di San Clemente.
• 1157 – Bank established.
• 1173 – Rialto Bridge made of wood opened, designed by Nicolò Barattieri.
• 1204 – Fourth Crusade embarks from Venice.
• 1228 – Fondaco dei Tedeschi built.
• 1264 – Bridge built across Grand Canal.
• 1291 – Glassmakers relocate to Murano.
• 1297 – Legislative body formally established.
• 1333 – Botanical garden planted.
• 1348 – Plague.
• 1360 – Ponte della Paglia (bridge) built (approximate date).
• 1386 – Jewish burial ground granted on the Lido.
• 1394 – Public clock installed.
• 1423
  • Lazaretto (quarantine) established on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio.
  • Francesco Foscari becomes doge.
• 1430 – Santi Giovanni e Paolo church rebuilt.
• 1447 – Scuola degli Albanesi founded.
• 1469 – Printing press in operation.^[3]
• 1475 – De honesta voluptate et valetudine cookbook published.^[4]
• 1495 – Printer Aldus Manutius in business.
• 1500 – Jacopo de' Barbari's woodcut View of Venice is published
• 1501 – Petrucci's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (songbook) published.^[5]
• 1507 – Cinque Savi alla Mercanzia (trade board) established.^[6]
• 1514 – Fire on Rialto.
• 1516 – Jewish ghetto in Cannaregio established.
• 1520 – Palazzo dei Dieci Savi built.
• 1527 – Jacopo Sansovino "appointed public architect."
• 1541 – Sempiterni compagnie founded.
• 1548 – Population: 158,069.
• 1558 – Establishment of a permanent postal connection between Venice and Kraków, capital of the Kingdom of Poland.^[7]
• 1565 – Theatre built.
• 1569 – 13 September: Arsenal explodes.
• 1575 – Fondaco dei Turchi established.^[8]
• 1575–77 – Plague.
• 1587 – Banco della Piazza di Rialto (bank) opens.
• 1591 – Rialto Bridge built of stone.
• 1600 – Bridge of Sighs built.
• 1613 – Monteverdi becomes maestro di cappella of St Mark's Basilica.
• 1630
  • 1629–31 Italian plague strikes Venice.
  • Accademia degli Incogniti founded.
• 1637 – Teatro San Cassiano (opera house) opens.^[9]
• 1642 – Premiere of Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea.^[10]
• 1645 – Coffee house in business.^[11]
• 1649 – Premiere of Cavalli's opera Giasone.
• 1678 – Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi is born on 4 March.
• 1682 – Dogana built.
• 1706 – Population: 140,256.
• 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.
• 1764 – Cozzi porcelain begins
• 1778 – Notizie del mondo newspaper begins publication.
• 1785 – Population: 139,095.
• 1792 – La Fenice opera house built.
• 1797 – Republic of Venice ends; Austrians in power per Treaty of Campo Formio.

19th century

• 1805 – French in power per Peace of Pressburg.
• 1812 – Ateneo Veneto founded.
• 1814
  • Austrians in power again.
  • Ala Napoleonica section of Piazza San Marco built.
• 1815 – General Archive of Veneto established.
• 1830
  • City becomes a free port.
  • Museo Correr (museum) established.
• 1842 – Milan–Venice railway begins operating; Venezia Mestre railway station opens.
• 1844
  • Premiere of Verdi's opera Ernani.
  • Mental asylum established on Isola di San Clemente.
• 1848
  • March: Republic of San Marco established.
  • 27 October: Battle of Mestre.
• 1853 – Premiere of Verdi's opera La Traviata.
• 1854 – Accademia bridge built.
• 1857 – Population: 118,173.
• 1859 – Venice becomes part of the Italian confederation of Austria, per Treaty of Villafranca.
• 1861 – Venezia Santa Lucia railway station opens.
• 1866 – Venice becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy per Treaty of Vienna (1866).
• 1868 – Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio (business school) established.
• 1870 – Artificial creation of the island of Sacca Sessola completed.
• 1871 – Population: 128,901.^[12]
• 1876
  • Liceo e Società Musicale Benedetto Marcello established.
  • L'Adriatico newspaper begins publication.^[13]
• 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.
• 1883
  • Lido and Malamocco annexed to city.
  • 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.^[14]

20th century

• 1906 – Population: 169,563.
• 1907 – Venezia FC (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.
• 1922 – Mental asylum established on Poveglia.
• 1923 – Pellestrina becomes part of Venice.
• 1924 – Burano, Ca'Savio, and Murano become part of Venice.
• 1926
  • , Favaro,, Mestre, and become part of Venice.
  • Nicelli Airport begins operating.
• 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.
• 1945 – Operation Bowler.
• 1949 – Cinema Teatro Corso built in Mestre.^[15]
• 1956 – Venice Conference.
• 1958 – Hotel Cipriani in business.
• 1966 – 4 November: 1966 Venice flood: highest acqua alta.^[16]
• 1970 – Veneto regional administration implemented.
• 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.
• 1980 – June: 6th G7 summit held.
• 1981 – Venice hosts the 1981 European Karate Championships.
• 1987 – June: 13th G7 summit held.
• 1993 – Massimo Cacciari becomes mayor.
• 1996 – 29 January: La Fenice opera house is destroyed by fire.
• 1999 – City master plan created.
• 2000
  • Paolo Costa becomes mayor.
  • 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.
• 2008 – Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia established.
• 2010 – Giorgio Orsoni becomes mayor.
• 2013 – Population: 259,263 comune; 865,421 province.^[17]
• 2014
  • June: Mayor Orsoni arrested.^[18]
  • 29 September: Clooney-Alamuddin wedding.^[19]
• 2015 – held; Luigi Brugnaro becomes mayor.
• 2019 – 12 November: Second highest acqua alta hits an already flooded city.^[20]
• 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.^[21]

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

References

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

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• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Venice, various dates

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4. Book: Melitta Weiss Adamson. Food in Medieval Times . 2004. Greenwood . 978-0-313-32147-4 . Timeline . https://books.google.com/books?id=jtgud2P-EGwC&pg=PR9 .
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7. Web site: Dzień Łącznościowca. Muzeum Poczty i Telekomunikacji we Wrocławiu. 18 October 2019. 31 July 2022. pl.
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9. Book: Joseph P. Swain. Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music . 2013. . USA . 978-0-8108-7825-9 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=TZKl9F_xnxkC&pg=PR15 .
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