page_title: Timeline of Venice
section_title: Prior to 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Venice / Prior to 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: bird's-eye view of Venice. The view is in unusually good condition. The first state showing the Campanile in Piazza San Marco with the temporary flat roof after a fire in 1489. In the second state the block was altered to take account of the restoration work done in 1511-4 and the date 1500 ("MD") was removed.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Venice, Veneto, Italy.
context_section_description: 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.
  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.
  1202 - 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.
  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.
  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
  1629–31 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.
  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.
  1792 - La Fenice opera house built.
  1797 - Republic of Venice ends; Austrians in power per Treaty of Campo Formio.
caption: Jacopo de' Barbari's woodcut, the View of Venice, 1500
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