Venice Chronology

My friend, and occasional travel partner Suzanne typed up this chronology for me.  Thought I'd post it since it's so interesting!

Some Venetian chronology from Venice, Pure City by Peter Ackroyd:

 

421 – legendary founding of Venice (real date probably a century later)

 

568 – Torcello founded

 

early 7th C. – basilica of S. Maria of Assunta built at Torcello (which you are going to go see!)

 

697 – 1st doge elected 

 

825 –  San Marco square completed

 

828 – body of San Marco  brought to Venice from Alexandria

 

928 – 1st mention of a Venetian glass-maker

 

early 1100's – the Arsenal is constructed

 

1171 – the 2 great columns in San Marco square are erected

 

late 1100's – earliest surviving mention of a gondola

 

1203-4 – Venice plys a major role in the assaut & sacking of Constantinople. It brings home the 4 horses of the triumphal Quadriga (&later, Napolean took the horses out of Venice – but they are back now (the ones you see above San Marco are copies though – for weather purposes)

 

1270 – earliest reference to private banks

 

1310 – the Council of 10 is created

 

1348 – plague in the city

 

14th – 15th C. – height of Venice's military powers

 

1421 – construction of Ca' (means house) D'Oro begins

 

1422 – old palace of doge replaced w. present day one 

 

1462 – war begins between Venice & the Turks. Ends in 1479. This signals the beginning of the end of Venetian power in the East & gradually ceases to dominate trade in the area

 

1516- Jewish ghetto established in Canareggio

 

1519 – birth of Tintoretto

 

1527 – after sack of Rome by barbarian invaders, Venice offers haven to countless Roman artists & intellectuals

 

1527 – Jacopo Sansovino, a refugee from Rome, appointed public architect . He designs the Mint, Library, the loggia of the campanile, part of Rialto market & transforms San Marco square  into a classic piazza

 

1585 – Venice loses Cypress to the Turks

 

1585 – beginning construction of Rialto Bridge (ponte)

 

1637 – world's 1st opera house built in Venice

 

1669 – Venoce loses Crete to the Turks; Suzanne visited Crete in 2007; no Turks left

 

1678 – Vivaldi is born

 

1696 – Tiepolo is born

 

1700's – Venice becomes the city of art & pleasure

 

1725 – Casanova is born

 

1797 – Vence falls to Napoleon, who hands it over to Austria. The doge is deposed & the Venetian republic ceases to exist

 

1848 – the Venetians oust the Austrians & re=establish the republic

 

1849 – the Austrians re-occupy Venice & the republic fails

 

1854 – the Accademia bridge is built

 

1868 – the Austrians withdraw & Venice becomes part of the newly established kingdom of Italy

 

end of 1800's – the Lido becomes a beach resort

 

1895 – first international exhibition is organised; becomes known as the "Biennale"

 

1902 – the campanile of San Marco square falls

 

1943 – German forces take over the city

 

1966 – year of the great flood

 

1996 – Venice's most famous opera house, LaFenice, burns down

 

2012 – Mary Ann Moss arrives in Venice

 

BON VIAGGIO!!!  Fa' un bel tempo!!!

 

xoxo,S.