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Duomo

Period: Jan 1, 1420 to Dec 31, 1436

Brunelleschi, Florence

Medici family exiled

Jan 1, 1429

Same year Giovanni de Medici dies

Cosimo de Medici comes back

Jan 1, 1434

Botticelli

Period: Mar 1, 1445 to May 17, 1510

The Birth of Venus, Adoration of the Magi

da Vinci

Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519

Fall of Constantinople

May 29, 1453

Technical course start

Treaty of Lodi

Apr 9, 1454

5 main Italian city-states (Rome, Florence, Milan, Naples, Venice) all agree to back the others up if any of them get attacked.

Cosimo de Medici dies

Aug 1, 1464

Piero de Medici rules

Period: Aug 19, 1464 to Dec 28, 1469

Lorenzo de Medici rules (with Giuliano for a little)

Period: Dec 28, 1469 to Apr 9, 1492

Giuliano killed at Church 4/26/1478, began independent rule

Michelangelo

Period: Mar 6, 1475 to Feb 18, 1564

Giuliano killed

Apr 26, 1478

Raphael

Period: Jan 1, 1483 to Apr 6, 1520

First art school in Europe

Jan 1, 1488

Piero de Medici

Period: Apr 9, 1492 to Dec 31, 1494

Taken out by First French invasion of Italy

Savonarola comes to power

Period: Dec 31, 1494 to May 23, 1498

Ruled Florence, tried to reform Florence but killed by the Church for being a "false prophet"

Prato destroyed by Medici

Jan 1, 1512

Giovanni and Giulio want Florence back, supported by Pope Leo X

Medici take back power

Dec 31, 1512

Machiavelli publishes The Princeq

Jan 1, 1513

Supposedly loosely based on Cesar Borgia, Pope Alexander VI's son. Told how if a place (like Italy) were to take over the world, they would need a prince like this. These ideas are still applicable today.

Sack of Rome

May 6, 1527

Charles V sacks Rome

Catherine de Medici marries Henry II of France

Oct 28, 1533

Cosimo de Medici elected Duke of Florence

Jan 1, 1537

1570 became Grand Duke of Tuscany

Today

Dec 14, 2015