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1498 – arrival of Vasco da Gama of Portugal in India, destroying Venice's land route monopoly over the Eastern trade; 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.
Jacopo de' Barbari's woodcut, the View of Venice, 1500 Venice in the late 17th and early 18th centuries The Grand Canal in Venice, c. 1730. 421 CE. Traditional date for founding of Venice, with consecration of San Giacomo di Rialto. [1] First mention of Poveglia. 452 – "Consular government adopted." [1] 697 – Paolo Lucio Anafesto becomes ...
Prelude (1498–1499) 7 April 1498: Charles VIII of France died and was succeeded by his cousin Louis, Duke of Orléans as Louis XII. Louis had participated in the previous war, primarily in the Siege of Novara (1495). 9 February 1499: Treaty of Blois (1499), secret alliance between France and Venice to partition the Duchy of Milan.
French (Cambrai) victory over Venice. 15–30 September 1509: Siege of Padua. Venetian victory over the League of Cambrai. 22 December 1509: Battle of Polesella. Ferrarese (Cambrai) victory over Venice. May 1510: French, Ferrarese, and Imperial troops invaded Venice. July 1510: The Pope and Venice formed an alliance and went on a counter-offensive.
The First Italian War, or Charles VIII's Italian War, [2] was the opening phase of the Italian Wars.The war pitted Charles VIII of France, who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and an alliance of Italian powers led by Pope Alexander VI, known as the League of Venice.
Printable version; In other projects ... Aldus Manutius moves to Venice. ... 1498. February 4 – Antonio del Pollaiuolo, ...
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.
Pietro Liberi (1605–1687), painter, active in Venice after 1643; Bernardino Licinio (c. 1489–1565), painter of Venice and Lombardy; Pietro Lombardo (1435–1515), architect and sculptor, active in Venice; Baldassare Longhena (1598–1682), architect, born and worked in Venice; Pietro Longhi (1701/2–1785), painter, born in Venice