Outside
Events
|
Year
| Events
at Venice
|
|
|
| [PERIOD
OF SETTLEMENT]
|
| Attila's
Hun invasion
|
452
| Refugees
flee mainland to lagoon islands
|
|
|
466
| Council
of 12 lagoon townships formed
|
| Alboin's
Lombard invasion
|
568
| Mainland
settlements abandoned
|
|
|
727
| First
Doge elected |
| Pepin's
Frankish invasion
|
810
| Settlement
consolidated at Rivo Alto, site of modern Venice
|
|
|
| [PERIOD
OF EASTERN EXPANSION]
|
|
|
1000
| Dalmatia
captured; empire begins
|
|
|
1204
| Constantinople
captured by Venice and 4th Crusaders; Venice receives as spoils
cessions of eastern shore of the Adriatic, the Cyclade and Sporade islands,
and the shores of Thessaly, the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea, achieving
control of the trade routes from Europe to both Constantinople and Asia
Minor. Crete acquired by treaty and arms.
|
|
|
1255
-1380
| Wars
with Genoa
|
|
|
| [PERIOD OF MAINLAND EXPANSION]
|
|
|
1339
-1388
| Treviso
acquired, lost, reacquired
|
|
|
1404
| Padua,
Vicenza and Verona acquired
|
|
|
1420
| Friuli
acquired
|
|
|
1428
| Brescia
and Bergamo acquired
|
| Constantinople
falls to Ottomans
|
1453
|
|
|
|
1484
| Rovigo
and Polesine acquired
|
|
|
1489
| Cyprus
acquired
|
|
|
| [PERIOD OF DECLINE]
|
| Columbus
discovers America
|
1492
|
|
| DeGama
sails Cape route to East
|
1497
|
|
| Papal
States, France, Spain, Hungary and others form League
of Cambrai
|
1509
| Venice
decisively defeated at Agnadello by League
of Cambrai
|
|
|
1538
-1580
|
The Period of Palladio's Villas
[an associated website]
|
|
|
1571
| Cyprus
lost to Ottoman Turks |
|
|
1669
| Crete
lost to Ottoman Turks
|
|
|
1716
| Morea
lost to Ottoman Turks
|
| Napoleon's
French invasion
|
1797
| Venice
surrenders sovereignty, ending 1,070 years of republican government
|
