Venice (34 page)
Authors: Jan Morris
There's romance for you! There's the lust and dark wine of Venice! No wonder George Eliot's husband fell into the Grand Canal.
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During the first 800 years of their history the Venetians established their independence, founded their commercial supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean, and evolved their own system of aristocratic Government at home. | 421 | Traditional foundation of Venice |
| 697 | Election of first Doge | |
| 809 | Pepin's attack on Venice | |
| 829 | Seizure of St Mark's body | |
| 960 | Dalmatians raid Venice | |
| 976 | Basilica burnt | |
| 997 | War against Dalmatians | |
| 997 | âMarriage of the Adriatic' | |
| 1001 | Otto III in Venice | |
| 1177 | Pope Alexander II meets Barbarossa | |
| 1202 | Fourth Crusade | |
| 1297 | Establishment of patrician autocracy | |
Throughout the 14th century after the division of the Byzantine Empire, Venice was involved in a ding-dong struggle with her rival Genoa, against a background of political instability at home. It ended triumphantly in the climax of Venetian success. | 1310 | Tiepolo conspiracy |
| 1335 | Council of Ten instituted | |
| 1355 | Doge Faliero beheaded | |
| 1373 | Jews arrive in Venice | |
| 1380 | Genoese surrender at Chioggia | |
With Genoa defeated, the Venetians looked inland, and by the middle of the 15th century had established a mainland Empire reaching almost to Milan. The fall of Constantinople, however, marked the beginning of their enfeeble-ment. | 1403-5 | Acquisition of Bassano, Belluno, Padua, Verona |
| 1406 | Death of Carrara | |
| 1421 | birth of Gentile Bellini | |
| 1426 | birth of Giovanni Bellini | |
| 1431 | death of Carmagnola | |
| 1435 | birth of Verrochio | |
| 1450 | birth of Carpaccio | |
| 1453 | Turks take Constantinople | |
| 1454 | Acquisition of Treviso, Friuli, Bergamo, Ravenna |
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During the last four centuries of her history, despite periods of astonishing artistic fertility, Venice declined in power and virility, her power whittled away in constant defensive wars against the Turks and by the rise of new commercial rivals in the West. By the middle of the 18th century her Empire was almost gone, and she subsided in carnival and garish excess towards her end as a State. | |
| 1457 | Doge Foscari deposed |
| 1472 | birth of Giorgione |
| 1479 | birth of Sansovino |
| 1480 | birth of Palma Vecchio |
| 1498 | Annexation of Cyprus |
| 1498 | da Gama's voyage to India |
| 1508 | League of Cambrai |
| 1512 | birth of da Ponte |
| 1512 | birth of Tintoretto |
| 1513 | birth of Paris Bordone |
| 1518 | birth of Palladio |
| 1528 | birth of Veronese |
| 1539 | Council of Three instituted |
| 1544 | birth of Palma Giovane |
| 1571 | Death of Bragadino |
| 1574 | Visit of Henry III of France |
| 1580 | birth of Longhena |
| 1606 | The Great Interdict |
| 1607 | Attempt on Sarpi's life |
| 1693 | birth of Tiepolo |
| 1697 | birth of Canaletto |
| 1702 | birth of Longhi |
| 1712 | birth of Guardi |
| 1751 | Murazzi completed |
| 1757 | birth of Canova |
| 1784 | Campaign against the Barbary pirates |
| 1797 | French take Venice |
| 1798 | Venice ceded to Austria |
| 1800 | Papal Conclave in Venice |
| 1806 | Return of French to Venice |
| 1814 | Return of Austrians to Venice |
| 1846 | Railway causeway built |
| 1848 | Venetian revolution against Austria |
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For nearly a century Venice has formed part of the Italian State. She is now a prefecture, the capital of a province, and the third port of Italy. | 1866 | Venice joins Italian Kingdom |
| 1902 | Collapse of Campanile | |
| 1915 | Operations against Austria | |
| 1931 | Road causeway built | |
| 1945 | British Army enters Venice | |
| 1960 | Construction of Marco Polo airport |
Map indices refer to the plan of Venice at the beginning of the book
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