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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Venice, ... May: Venice hosts the 1981 European Karate Championships. 1987 – June: 13th G7 summit held.
1499 – Venice allies itself with Louis XII of France against Milan, gaining Cremona. **Outbreak of the Second Ottoman–Venetian War , when the Ottoman sultan moves to attack Lepanto . The Venetian fleet under Antonio Grimani , more a businessman and diplomat than a sailor, is defeated by the Ottoman navy in the Battle of Zonchio
The Republic of Venice in AD 1000. The republican territory is dark red, the borders in light red. The Republic of Venice (Venetian: Repùbrega Vèneta; Italian: Repubblica di Venezia) was a sovereign state and maritime republic in Northeast Italy, which existed for a millennium between the 8th century and 1797.
The Republic of Venice, [a] officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenìssima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto , over the course of its 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the ...
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
View of Venice in 1565. Venice was founded in 421 after the destruction of nearby communities by the Huns and the Lombards.In the shifting Italian borders of the following centuries, Venice benefited from remaining under the control of the Roman Empire - increasingly as the furthest Northwestern outpost of the now Constantinople centered power.
The young French general, and future ruler of France, Napoleon Bonaparte The fall of the ancient Republic of Venice was the result of a sequence of events that followed the French Revolution (Fall of the Bastille, 14 July 1789), and the subsequent French Revolutionary Wars that pitted the First French Republic against the monarchic powers of Europe, allied in the First Coalition (1792 ...
Venice (/ ˈ v ɛ n ɪ s / VEN-iss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛt͡sja] ⓘ; Venetian: Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 438 bridges. [3]