Historical Chart of Florence and Europe, 1296-1564
Artists' Dates.
1300 (c.) Taddeo Gaddi born (d. 1366)
1302 (c.) Cimabue died (b. c. 1240)
1308 (c.) Andrea Orcagna born (d. 1368)
1310 Arnolfo di Cambio died (b. 1232 ?)
1333 Spinello Aretino born (d. 1410)
1336 Giotto died (b. 1276 ?)
1344 Simone Martini died (b. 1283)
1348 Andrea Pisano died (b. 1270)
1356 Lippo Memmi died
1366 Taddeo Gaddi died (b. c. 1300)
1368 Andrea Orcagna died
1370 (c.) Lorenzo Monaco born (d. 1425)
Gentile da Fabriano born
(d. 1450)
1371 Jacopo della Quercia born (d. 1438)
1377 Filippo Brunelleschi born (d. 1446)
1378 Lorenzo Ghiberti born (d. 1455)
1386 (?) Donatello born (d. 1466)
1387 Fra Angelico born (d. 1455)
1391 Michelozzo born (d. 1472)
1396 (?) Andrea del Castagno born (d. 1457)
1397 Paolo Uccello born (d. 1475)
1399 or 1400 Luca della Robbia born (d. 1482)
1401 or 1402 Masaccio born (d. 1428?)
1405 Leon Battista Alberti born (d. 1472)
1406 Lippo Lippi born (d. 1469)
1409 Bernardo Rossellino born (d. 1464)
1410 Spinello Aretino died
1415 Piero della Francesca born (d. 1492)
1420 Benozzo Gozzoli born (d. 1498)
1425 Il Monaco died
Alessio Baldovinetti born
(d. 1499)
1427 Antonio Rossellino born (d. 1478)
1428 (?) Masaccio died
1428 Desiderio da Settignano born (d. 1464)
1429 (?) Giovanni Bellini born (d. 1516)
Antonio Pollaiuolo born
(d. 1498)
1430 Cosimo Tura died
1431 Andrea Mantegna born (d. 1506)
1432 (?) Mina da Fiesole born (d. 1484)
1435 Andrea Verrocchio born (d. 1488)
Andrea della Robbia born
(d. 1525)
1438 Melozzo da Forli born (d. 1494)
1439 Cosimo Rosselli born (d. 1507)
1441 Luca Signorelli born (d. 1523)
1442 Benedetto da Maiano born (d. 1497)
1444 Sandro Botticelli born (d. 1510)
1446 Brunelleschi died
Perugino born (d. 1523 or 24)
Francesco Botticini born
(d. 1498)
1449 Domenico Ghirlandaio born (d. 1494)
1450 Gentile da Fabriano died
1452 Leonardi da Vinci born (d. 1519)
1455 Ghiberti died
Fra Angelico died
1456 Lorenzo di Credi born (d. 1537)
1457 Cronaca born (d. 1508 or 9)
Filippino Lippi born (d. 1504)
Andrea del Castagno died
1462 Piero di Cosimo born (d. 1521)
1463 or 4 Desiderio da Settignano died
1464 Bernardo Rossellino died
1466 Donatello died
1469 Giovanni della Robbia born (d. 1529)
Lippo Lippi died
1472 Michelozzo died
Alberti died
1474 Benedetto da Rovezzano born (d. 1556)
Rustici born (d. 1554)
Mariotto Albertinelli born
(d. 1515)
1475 Fra Bartolommeo born (d. 1517)
Michelangelo Buonarroti born
(d. 1564)
1477 Titian born (d. 1576)
Giorgione born (d. 1510)
1478 Antonio Rossellino died
1482 Francia Bigio born (d. 1523)
Guicciardini born (d. 1540)
1483 Raphael born (d. 1520)
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio born
(d. 1561)
1484 Mino da Fiesole died
1485 Sebastiano del Piombo born (d. 1547)
1486 Jacopo Sansovino born (d. 1570)
1486 or 7 Andrea del Sarto born (d. 1531)
1488 Verrocchio died
Baccio Bandinelli born
(d. 1560)
1492 Piero della Francesco died
1494 Jacopo da Pontormo born (d. 1556)
Correggio born (d. 1534)
Domenico Ghirlandaio died
Melozzo da Forli died
1497 Benedetto da Maiano died
Benozzo Gozzoli died
1498 Antonio Pollaiuolo died
Francesco Botticini died
1499 Alessio Baldovinetti died
1500 Benvenuto Cellini born (d. 1572)
1502 Angelo Bronzino born (d. 1572)
1504 Filippino Lippi died
1506 Mantegna died
1507 Cosimo Rosselli died
1508 Cronaca died
1510 Botticelli died
Giorgione died
1511 Vasari born (d. 1574)
1515 Albertinelli died
1516 Giovanni Bellini died
1517 Fra Bartolommeo died
1518 Tintoretto born (d. 1594)
1519 Leonardo da Vinci died
1520 Raphael died
1521 Piero di Cosimo died
1523 Signorelli died
Perugino died
1524 Giovanni da Bologna born (d. 1608)
1525 Andrea della Robbia died
Francia Bigio died
1528 Paolo Veronese born (d. 1588)
Federigo Baroccio born
(d. 1612)
1529 Giovanni della Robbia died
1531 Andrea del Sarto died
1534 Correggio died
1537 Credi died
1547 Sebastiano del Piombo died
1554 Rustici died
1556 Pontormo died
Benedetto da Rovezzano died
1560 Baccio Bandinelli died
1561 Ridolfo Ghirlandaio died
1564 Michael Angelo died
Some Important Florentine Dates
1296 Foundations of the Duomo consecrated
1298 Palazzo Vecchio commenced by Arnolfo
di Cambio
1300 Beginning of the feuds of the Bianchi
and Xeri
Guido Cavalcanti died
1302 Dante exiled, Jan. 27
1304 Petrarch born (d. 1374)
1308 Death of Corso Donati
1312 Siege of Florence by Henry VII
1313 Boccaccio born (d. 1375)
1321 Dante died Sept. 14 (b. 1265)
1333 Destructive floods
1334 Foundations of the Campanile laid
1337 Or San Michele begun
1339 Andrea Pisano's gates finished
1348 Black Death of the Decameron
Giovanni Villani died
(b. 1275 c.)
1360 Giovanni de' Medici (di Bicci) born
1365 (c) Ponte Vecchio rebuilt by Taddeo Gaddi
1374 Petrarch died
1375 Boccaccio died
1376 Loggia de' Lanzi commenced
1378 Salvestro de' Medici elected
Gonfaloniere
1389 Cosimo de' Medici (Pater Patrise) born
1390 War with Milan
1394 Sir John Hawkwood died
1399 Competition for Baptistery Gates
1416 Piero de' Medici (il Gottoso) born
1421 Purchase of Leghorn by Florence
Giovanni de' Medici elected
Gonfaloniere
Spedale degli Innocenti
commenced
1424 Ghiberti's first gate set up
1429 Giovanni de' Medici died
1432 Niccolo da Uzzano died
1433 Marsilio Ficino born
Cosimo de' Medici banished,
Oct. 3
1434 Cosimo returned to power, Sept. 29
Banishment of Albizzi and
Strozzi
1435 Francesco Sforza visited Florence
1436 Brunelleschi's dome completed
The Duomo consecrated
1439 Council of Florence
Gemisthos Plethon in Florence
1440 Cosimo occupied the Medici Palace
1449 Lorenzo de' Medici (the Magnificent
born)
1452 Ghiberti's second gates set up
Savonarola born
1454 Politian born
1463 Pico della Mirandola born
1464 Cosimo de' Medici died and was
succeeded by Piero
1466 Luca Pitti's Conspiracy
1469 Lorenzo's Tournament, Feb.
Lorenzo's Marriage to Clarice
Orsini, June
Death of Piero, Dec.
Niccolo Machiavelli born
1471 Piero de' Medici, son of Lorenzo, born
Visit of Galeazzo Sforza
to Florence
Cennini's Press established
in Florence
1474 Ariosto born
1475 Giuliano's Tournament
1478 Pazzi Conspiracy
Giuliano murdered
1479 Lorenzo's Mission to Naples
1492 Lorenzo the Magnificent died
Piero succeeded
1494 Charles VIII invaded Italy
Piero banished
Charles VIII in Florence. Sack of
Medici Palace
Florence governed by General Council
Savonarola in power
Politian died
Pico della Mirandola died
1497 Francesco Valori elected Gonfaloniere
Piero attempted to return to Florence
1498 Savonarola burnt
1499 Marsilio Ficino died
Amerigo Vespucci reached America
1503 Death of Piero di Medici
1512 Cardinal Giovanni and Giuliano, Duke of
Nemours, reinstated in Florence
Great Council abolished
1519 Cardinal Giulio de' Medici in power
Catherine de' Medici born
1524 Ippolito and Alessandro de' Medici in power
1526 Death of Giovanni delle Bande Nere
1527 Ippolito and Alessandro left Florence
1528 Machiavelli died
1529-30 Siege of Florence
1530 Capitulation of Florence
1531 Alessandro de' Medici declared Head of Republic
1537 Cosimo de' Medici made Ruler of Florence
Battle of Montemurlo
Lorenzino assassinated
in Venice
1539 Cosimo married Eleanor di Toledo and moved
to Palazzo Vecchio
1553 Cosimo occupied the Pitti Palace
1564 Galileo Galilei born
Popes.
Boniface VIII
1303 Benedict XI
1305 Clement V
1316 John XXII
1334 Benedict XII
1337 Boniface VIII
1342 Clement VI
1352 Innocent VI
1362 Urban V
1370 Gregory XI
1378 Urban VI
1389 Boniface IX
1404 Innocent VII
1406 Gregory XII
1409 Alex. V
1410 John XXIII
1417 Martin V
1431 Eugenius IV
1447 Nicolas V
1455 Calixtus III
1458 Pius II
1464 Paul II
1471 Sixtus IV
1484 Innocent VIII
1492 Alex. VI
1503 Pius III
Julius II
1513 Leo X
1522 Hadrian VI
1523 Clement VII
1534 Paul III
1550 Julius III
1555 Marcellus II
Paul IV
1559 Pius IV
French Kings.
Philip IV
1314 Louis X
1316 John I
Philip V
1322 Charles IV
1328 Philip VI
Philip
1350 John II
1364 Charles V
1380 Charles VI
1422 Charles VII
1461 Louis XI
1483 Charles VIII
1498 Louis XII
1515 Francis I
1547 Henry II
1559 Francis II
1560 Charles IX
English Kings.
Edward I
1307 Edward II
1327 Edward III
1377 Richard II
1422 Charles VII
1461 Edward IV
1483 Edward V
Richard III
1485 Henry VII
1509 Henry VIII
1547 Edward VI
1553 Mary
1558 Elizabeth
Milan.
1310 Matteo Visconti
1322 Galeazzo Visconti
1328
1329 Azzo Visconti
1339 Luchino and Giovanni Visconti
1349 Giovanni Visconti
1354 Matteo Bernabo Galeazzo
1378 Gian Galeazzo Visconti
1402 Gian Maria Visconti
1412 Filippo Maria Visconti
1447...1450 Francesco Sforza
1466 Galeazzo Sforza
1476 Gian Galeazzo Sforza (Ludovico Sforza Regent)
1495 Ludovico Sforza
1499 Ludovico exiled
Some Important General Dates
1298 Battle of Falkirk
1306 Coronation of Bruce
1314 Battle of Bannockburn
1324 (?) John Wyclif born
1337 Froissart born (d. 1410?)
1339 Beginning of the Hundred Years' War
1346 Battle of Crecy
1347 Rienzi made Tribune of Rome
Edward III took Calais
1348-9 Black Death in England
1348 S. Catherine of Siena born
1356 Battle of Poictiers
1362 First draft of Piers Plowman
1379 Thomas a Kempis born
1381 Wat Tyler's Rebellion
1400 Geoffrey Chaucer died
1414 Council of Constance
1428 Siege of Orleans
1431 Joan of Arc burnt
1435 (c.) Hans Meinling born
1450 John Gutenburg printed at Mainz
Jack Cade's Insurrection
1453 Fall of Constantinople
1455 Beginning of the Wars of the Roses
1467 Erasmus born (d. 1528)
1470 (c.) Mabuse born (d. 1555)
1471 Albert Duerer born (d. 1528)
Caxton's Press established in
Westminster
1476 Chevalier Bayard born
1482 Hugo van der Goes died
1483 Rabelais born (d. 1553)
Martin Luther born
Murder of the Princes in
the Tower
1491 Ignatius Loyola born
1492 America discovered by Christopher Columbus
1494 Lucas van Leyden born (d. 1533)
1505 John Knox born (d. 1582)
1509 Calvin born
1516 More's Utopia published
1519 First Voyage round the world
(Ferd. Magellan)
1519-21 Conquest of Mexico
1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold
1527 Brantome born (d. 1614)
1528 Albert Duerer died
1531-2 Conquest of Peru
1533 Montaigne born (d. 1592)
1535 Henry VIII became Supreme Head of the Church
1537 Sack of Rome
1544 Torquato Tasso born
1553 Edmund Spenser born
1554 Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Sir Philip Sidney born
1555-6 Ridley, Latimer, Cranmer burnt
1558 Calais recaptured by the French
1564 Shakespeare born