# 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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* 421 CE
** Traditional date for founding of Venice, with consecration of San Giacomo di 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.
* 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.
* 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 – Serrata del Maggior Consiglio: exclusion of the lower classes from power and establishment of the patrician-led aristocratic regime.
* 1310 – Tiepolo conspiracy fails to gain power
* 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.
* 1475 – De honesta voluptate et valetudine cookbook published.
* 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.
* 1507 – Cinque Savi alla Mercanzia (trade board) established.
* 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.
* 1565 – Theatre built.
* 1569 – 13 September: Arsenal explodes.
* 1575 – Fondaco dei Turchi established.
* 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
** 1629–1631 Italian plague strikes Venice.
** Accademia degli Incogniti founded.
* 1637 – Teatro San Cassiano (opera house) opens.
* 1642 – Premiere of Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea.
* 1645 – Coffee house in business.
* 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 – Fall of the Republic of Venice and establishment of the Provisional Municipality of Venice
* 1798 – Venice passes into Austrian hands.

## 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 – November: Ponte dell'Accademia 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 – August: Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio (business school) established.
* 1870 – Artificial creation of the island of Sacca Sessola completed.
* 1871 – Population: 128,901.
* 1876
** Liceo e Società Musicale Benedetto Marcello established.
** L'Adriatico newspaper begins publication.
* 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 – March: 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 – 30 April: Venice Biennale begins.
* 1897 – Population: 155,899.

## 20th century

* 1906 – Population: 169,563.
* 1907 – 14 December: 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
** Chirignago [it], Favaro, Malcontenta [it], Mestre, and Zelarino [it] become part of Venice.
** Nicelli Airport begins operating.
* 1927 – AC 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 – 6 August: 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 – 21 March: Operation Bowler.
* 1949 – Cinema Teatro Corso built in Mestre.
* 1956 – 29 and 30 May: Venice Conference.
* 1958 – Belmond Hotel Cipriani in business.
* 1966 – 4 November: 1966 Venice flood: highest acqua alta.
* 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 – May: Venice hosts the 1981 European Karate Championships.
* 1987 – June: 13th G7 summit held.
* 1993 – December: Massimo Cacciari becomes mayor.
* 1996 – 29 January: La Fenice opera house is destroyed by fire.
* 1999 – City master plan created.
* 2000
** April: 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 – April: Massimo Cacciari becomes mayor again.
* 2006 – Veritas (water/trash municipal entity) established.
* 2008 – 3 March: Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia established.
* 2010 – April: Giorgio Orsoni becomes mayor.
* 2013 – Population: 259,263 comune; 865,421 province.
* 2014
** 4 June: Mayor Orsoni arrested.
** 29 September: Clooney-Alamuddin wedding.
* 2015 – Local election [it] held; Luigi Brugnaro becomes mayor.
* 2019 – 12 November: Second highest acqua alta hits an already flooded city.
* 2020 – Venice was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism is blocked and the Carnival of Venice is closed early.
* 2021 – 25 March: 1600th Anniversary of the Foundation of Venice.