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Florence conquers Pisa

May 18, 1000

http://www.castellodelnero.it/eng/Florence_guide_time.htmBefore the year 1000 Florence started to grow in 59BC as a result of an agrarian law passed by Julius Caesar who granted land to retired army veterans. Byzantine walls were later added to the city’s Roman walls in 541 AD as protection against the Ostrogoths.
The Lombards took Tuscany in 570 and were late defeated by Charles Magne in the 9 th century. Florence became part of the Holy Roman Empire and ruled by the Margrave Princes.

Council of Pisa

May 18, 1409

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_PisaThe Council of Pisa was an unrecognized ecumenical conference of the Roman Catholic Church held in 1409 that attempted to end the Western Schism. Instead of ending the Western Schism, the Council elected a third papal claimant, Alexander V, who would be succeeded by John XXIII.

Joan of Arc is burnt at the stake

May 30, 1412

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_d'ArcSaint Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc;[1] c. 1412[2] – 30 May 1431) is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old.[3][4] Twen

Creation of the Janissaries

May 18, 1430

http://www.answers.com/topic/janissaries-1Janissaries (Turkish: yeniçeri, new troops), the name given to the formidable soldiers of the infantry created by the Ottomans as early as the 14th century, who remained the terror of Europe until the mid-17th century. The janissaries were drawn from dev?irme (collection or round-up) of Christian boys of conquered territories of the Balkans. Generally between the ages of 12 and 18, these boys were unmarried, converted to Islam, slaves of the sultan, and educated in special schools which graduat

Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici

Jan 1, 1449

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_de'_MediciLorenzo de' Medici (1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492) was an Italian statesman and de facto[1] ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico) by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets. His life coincided with the high point of the early Italian Renaissance; his death marked the end of the Golden Age of Florence. The fragile peace he helped maintain between the variou

Leonardo da Vinci

Apr 15, 1452

was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2] Helen Gardner says "The scope and depth of his interests w

Fall of Constantinople

May 29, 1453

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_ConstantinopleThe Fall of Constantinople was a siege in which the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Mehmed II attempted to capture the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople which was defended by the army of Emperor Constantine XI. The siege lasted from Thursday, 5 April 1453 until Tuesday, 29 May 1453 (according to the Julian Calendar), when the city fell to the Ottomans. The event marked the end of the political independence of the millennium-old Byzantine Empire, which was by then already

War of the Roses

May 14, 1455

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_RosesThe Wars of the Roses were a series of bloody dynastic civil wars between supporters of the rival houses of Lancaster and York, for the throne of England. They are generally accepted to have been fought in several spasmodic episodes between 1455 and 1487 (although there was related fighting both before and after this period.) The war ended with the victory of the Lancastrian Henry Tudor, who founded the House of Tudor which subsequently ruled England and Wales for 116 years.

Vasco da Gama reaches India

Dec 24, 1460

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_GamaDom Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (Portuguese pronunciation: [?va?ku d? ???m?]) (Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo, Portugal, ca. either 1460 or 1469 – December 24, 1524 in Kochi, India) was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.

Michelangelo sculpts statue of David

May 15, 1501

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture sculpted by Michelangelo from 1501 to 1504. The 5.17 meter (17 ft)[1] marble statue portrays the Biblical King David in the nude. Unlike previous depictions of David which portray the hero after his victory over Goliath, Michelangelo chose to represent David before the fight contemplating the battle yet to come. [2] It came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, an independent city state threatened on all s

construction of basilica of ST Peter's in Rome

Apr 18, 1506

officially known in Italian as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St. Peter's Basilica, is located within the Vatican City. St. Peter's has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world, holding 60,000 people.[1] It is regarded as one of the holiest Christian sites and has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom".[2][3][4] In Catholic tradition, it is the burial site of its name

imperial troops sack Rome in

May 6, 1527

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(1527)The Sack of Rome on 6 May 1527, carried out by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, marked a crucial imperial victory in the conflict between Charles I of Spain Holy Roman Emperor, and the League of Cognac (1526–1529) — the alliance of France, Milan, Venice, Florence and the Papacy.