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city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

, Veneto, Italy.

Prior to 19th century

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* 421 CE - Church established on Rialto. First mention of Poveglia. * 452 - "Consular government adopted." * 697 -

Paolo Lucio Anafesto Paolo Lucio Anafesto ( la, Paulucius Anafestus) was, according to tradition, the first Doge of Venice, serving from 697 to 717. He is known for repelling Umayyad attacks. Biography A noble of Eraclea, then the primary city of the region, he was ...

becomes Doge of Venice. * 774 - Catholic diocese established on

Olivolo San Pietro di Castello ( vec, San Piero de Casteło), formerly Olivolo ( it, Olivòlo; vec, Ołivoło), is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, forming part of the Castello sestiere. It is linked to the main islands of Venice by ...

, comprising

Dorsoduro Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy. Dorsoduro includes the highest land areas of the city and also Giudecca island and Isola Sacca Fisola. Its name derives from the Italian for "hard ridge", due to its comparati ...

, Luprio, and Rialto. * 814 - Venetian seat of government relocated to Rialto per Treaty of Ratisbone. * 828 -

Mark the Evangelist Mark the Evangelist ( la, Marcus; grc-gre, Μᾶρκος, Mârkos; arc, ܡܪܩܘܣ, translit=Marqōs; Ge'ez: ማርቆስ; ), also known as Saint Mark, is the person who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Acco ...

designated patron saint of city. * 836 - Doge's Chapel built. * 902 -

St Mark's Campanile St Mark's Campanile ( it, Campanile di San Marco, ) is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. The current campanile is a reconstruction completed in 1912, the previous tower having collapsed in 1902. At in height, it is the tal ...

construction begins. * 1094 -

St Mark's Basilica The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark ( it, Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco), commonly known as St Mark's Basilica ( it, Basilica di San Marco; vec, Baxéłega de San Marco), is the cathedral church of the Catholic Chu ...

consecrated. * 1097 - Market established on Rialto. * 1131 - Church of San Clemente is the first established settlement on the

Isola di San Clemente Isola di San Clemente (San Clemente Island) is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon in Italy. For centuries it housed a monastic settlement, and more recently an asylum. It is now the site of a luxury hotel. Location San Clemente Island lies i ...

. * 1157 - Bank established. * 1173 - Rialto Bridge made of wood opened, designed by

Nicolò Barattieri Nicolò Barattieri was a Lombard engineer active in Venice of the 12th century. In 1180 he raised the Campanile of Venice to 200 feet. In about 1181 he built the first bridge across the Grand Canal a pontoon bridge that was the first version of ...

. * 1204 -

Fourth Crusade The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem, by first defeating the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid S ...

embarks from Venice. * 1228 -

Fondaco dei Tedeschi The Fondaco dei Tedeschi ( Venetian: ''Fòntego dei Todeschi'', in literal English, "warehouse of the Germans") is a historic building in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge. It was the headquarters and rest ...

built. * 1264 - Bridge built across Grand Canal. * 1291 - Glassmakers relocate to

Murano Murano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It lies about north of Venice and measures about across with a population of just over 5,000 (2004 figures). It is famous for its glass making. It was on ...

. * 1297 - Legislative body formally established. * 1333 - Botanical garden planted. * 1348 - Plague. * 1360 - Ponte della Paglia (bridge) built (approximate date). * 1386 - Jewish burial ground granted on the Lido. * 1394 - Public clock installed. * 1423 ** Lazaretto (quarantine) established on the island of

Lazzaretto Vecchio The Lazzaretto Vecchio ("Old Lazaret"), formerly known as (" Holy Mary of Nazareth"), is an island of the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, located near the Lido of Venice. Between 1403 and 1630 it housed a hospital which cared for people during ...

. ** Francesco Foscari becomes doge. * 1430 - Santi Giovanni e Paolo church rebuilt. * 1447 -

Scuola degli Albanesi The Scuola di Santa Maria degli Albanesi (School of Holy Mary of the Albanians in English; ''Shkolla e Shën Mërisë së Arbërorëvet'' in Albanian) was a confraternity, a Scuola Piccola, for Albanian Christians Catholics ( Greek-Byzantine an ...

founded. * 1469 - Printing press in operation. * 1475 - '' De honesta voluptate et valetudine'' cookbook published. * 1495 - Printer

Aldus Manutius Aldus Pius Manutius (; it, Aldo Pio Manuzio; 6 February 1515) was an Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine Press. Manutius devoted the later part of his life to publishing and disseminating rare texts. His interest in and preserv ...

in business. * 1500 - Jacopo de' Barbari's woodcut '' View of Venice'' is published * 1501 - Petrucci's '' Harmonice Musices Odhecaton'' (songbook) published. * 1507 - Cinque Savi alla Mercanzia (trade board) established. * 1514 - Fire on Rialto. * 1516 - Jewish ghetto in

Cannaregio Cannaregio () is the northernmost of the six historic ''sestieri'' (districts) of Venice. It is the second largest ''sestiere'' by land area and the largest by population, with 13,169 people . Isola di San Michele, the historic cemetery island, ...

established. * 1520 -

Palazzo dei Dieci Savi Palazzo dei Dieci Savi is a palace on the Canal Grande, Venice, northern Italy. It is included in the ''sestiere'' (quarter) of San Polo, and is not far from the Rialto Bridge, on the opposite side from the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi. It was built ...

built. * 1527 -

Jacopo Sansovino Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 – 27 November 1570) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance archi ...

"appointed public architect." * 1541 - Sempiterni compagnie founded. * 1548 - Population: 158,069. * 1558 - Establishment of a permanent postal connection between Venice and Kraków, capital of the Kingdom of Poland. * 1565 - Theatre built. * 1569 - 13 September: Arsenal explodes. * 1575 - Fondaco dei Turchi established. * 1575-77 - Plague. * 1587 - Banco della Piazza di Rialto (bank) opens. * 1591 - Rialto Bridge built of stone. * 1600 - Bridge of Sighs built. * 1613 - Monteverdi becomes maestro di cappella of

. * 1630 **

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strikes Venice. ** Accademia degli Incogniti founded. * 1637 -

Teatro San Cassiano The Teatro San Cassiano (or Teatro di San Cassiano and other variants) in Venice was the world’s first public opera theatre, inaugurated as such in 1637. The first mention of its construction dates back to 1581. The name with which it is best know ...

(opera house) opens. * 1642 - Premiere of Monteverdi's opera '' L'incoronazione di Poppea''. * 1645 - Coffee house in business. * 1649 - Premiere of Cavalli's opera '' Giasone.'' * 1678 - Italian

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

composer

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread a ...

is born on 4 March. * 1682 - Dogana built. * 1706 - Population: 140,256. * 1720 -

Vezzi porcelain Vezzi porcelain is porcelain made by the Vezzi porcelain factory in Venice, Italy, established in 1720 by the Vezzi family. It was the first porcelain factory in Italy, after the experimental Medici porcelain of the 16th century. It operated onl ...

begins * 1720 - Caffè Florian in business. * 1741 - Il Nuovo Postiglione newspaper begins publication. * 1744 - Joseph Smith becomes British consul. * 1750 - Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia founded. * 1755 -

Teatro San Benedetto The Teatro San Benedetto was a theatre in Venice, particularly prominent in the operatic life of the city in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It saw the premieres of over 140 operas, including Rossini's ''L'italiana in Algeri'', and was the th ...

(theatre) opens. * 1761 - Gozzi's ''L'Osservatore Veneto'' begins publication. * 1764 - Cozzi porcelain begins * 1778 - Notizie del mondo newspaper begins publication. * 1785 - Population: 139,095. * 1792 -

La Fenice Teatro La Fenice (, "The Phoenix") is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of "the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre" and in the history of opera as a whole. Especially in the 19th century, La Fenice beca ...

opera house built. * 1797 - Republic of Venice ends; Austrians in power per Treaty of Campo Formio.

19th century

* 1805 - French in power per Peace of Pressburg. * 1812 -

Ateneo Veneto The Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti is an institution for the promulgation of science, literature, art and culture in all forms, in the exclusive interest of promoting social solidarity, located in Venice, northern Italy. The Ateneo Ven ...

founded. * 1814 ** Austrians in power again. ** Ala Napoleonica section of Piazza San Marco built. * 1815 - General Archive of Veneto established. * 1830 ** City becomes a free port. ** Museo Correr (museum) established. * 1842 - Milan–Venice railway begins operating; Venezia Mestre railway station opens. * 1844 ** Premiere of Verdi's opera ''

Ernani ''Ernani'' is an operatic ''dramma lirico'' in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play ''Hernani (drama), Hernani'' by Victor Hugo. Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice in V ...

.'' ** Mental asylum established on

. * 1848 ** March: Republic of San Marco established. ** 27 October:

Battle of Mestre The sortie on Mestre occurred during the revolutionary year of 1848 on October 27. Italian volunteers charged the Austrian fortification, took the town and withdrew, with the loot of three baggage-waggons, eight horses, large quantity of ammun ...

. * 1853 - Premiere of Verdi's opera ''

La Traviata ''La traviata'' (; ''The Fallen Woman'') is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on ''La Dame aux camélias'' (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'' adapted from his own 18 ...

.'' * 1854 -

Accademia bridge The Ponte dell'Accademia is one of only four bridges to span the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It crosses near the southern end of the canal, and is named for the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, which from 1807 to 2004 was housed in the ...

built. * 1857 - Population: 118,173. * 1859 - Venice becomes part of the Italian confederation of Austria, per

Treaty of Villafranca The Second Italian War of Independence, also called the Franco-Austrian War, the Austro-Sardinian War or Italian War of 1859 ( it, Seconda guerra d'indipendenza italiana; french: Campagne d'Italie), was fought by the Second French Empire and t ...

. * 1861 - Venezia Santa Lucia railway station opens. * 1866 - Venice becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy per

Treaty of Vienna (1866) The 1866 Treaty of Vienna was an agreement signed on the 3rd of October and later ratified on the 12th by the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire that concluded the hostilities of the Third War of Italian Independence, a theatre of concu ...

. * 1868 - Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio (business school) established. * 1870 - Artificial creation of the island of

Sacca Sessola Sacca Sessola loosely translated as "Bailing-Scoop Cove" (also called "Isola delle Rose" or "Island of Roses" by the hotel which is located in on the island, it is not a name recognized by the Venetians, or on topographical maps) is an island in ...

completed. * 1871 - Population: 128,901. * 1876 ** Liceo e Società Musicale Benedetto Marcello established. ** ''L'Adriatico'' newspaper begins publication. * 1880 - 16 June: John Cross, on honeymoon with English novelist George Eliot, jumps from their hotel room into the Grand Canal in an episode of mental disorder. * 1881 - Population: 132,826. * 1883 ** Lido and

Malamocco Malamocco ( vec, Małamoco) was the first, and for a long time, the only settlement on the Lido of Venice barrier island of the Lagoon of Venice. It is located just south of the island's center and it is part of the Lido-Pellestrina borough of t ...

annexed to city. ** 13 February: German composer

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

dies at Ca' Vendramin Calergi of a heart attack, age 69. * 1887 - '' Il Gazzettino'' newspaper begins publication. * 1889 - 12 December: English poet

Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings ...

dies at his son's home

Ca' Rezzonico Ca' Rezzonico () is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro ''sestiere'' of Venice, Italy. It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displa ...

, age 77. * 1892 - Conversion of

into a hospital for contagious diseases is begun. * 1895 - Venice Biennale begins. * 1897 - Population: 155,899.

20th century

* 1906 - Population: 169,563. * 1907 - F.B.C. Unione Venezia (football club) formed. * 1910 - 27 April: Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issues the manifesto ''Contro Venezia passatista'' ("Against Past-loving Venice") in the Piazza San Marco. * 1913 -

Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo is a multi-use stadium in Venice, Italy. It is the largest sports facility in Venice and the home ground of Venezia F.C. The stadium was first opened in 1913 and takes its name from World War I pilot (1896–1928). It ...

(stadium) opens. * 1917 - Marghera becomes part of Venice. * 1922 - Mental asylum established on Poveglia. * 1923 - Pellestrina becomes part of Venice. * 1924 - Burano, Ca'Savio, and

become part of Venice. * 1926 ** , Favaro, ,

Mestre Mestre () is a borough of the ''comune'' (municipality) of Venice, on the mainland opposite the historical island city in the region of Veneto, Italy. Administratively, Mestre forms (together with the nearby Carpenedo) the ''Municipalità di ...

, and become part of Venice. ** Nicelli Airport begins operating. * 1927 -

A.C. Mestre Associazione Calcio Mestre is an Italian association football club located in Mestre, Venice, Veneto. It currently plays in Serie D, the fourth tier of the Italian league system. Its colors are orange and black. History The club was founded in ...

football club formed. * 1929 - 19 August: Russian-born ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev dies in Venice and is buried on the

Isola di San Michele The Island of San Michele ( it, isola di San Michele, ; vec, ìxoła de San Michièl) is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, Veneto, northern Italy. It is associated with the sestiere of Cannaregio, from which it lies a short distance northeast. ...

. * 1931 - Harry's Bar in business. * 1932 - Venice Film Festival begins. * 1933 - Ponte della Libertà (bridge) opens. * 1937 - Collegio Navale della Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (naval school) established. * 1940 -

Università Iuav di Venezia Iuav University of Venice ( it, Università Iuav di Venezia) is a university in Venice, Italy. It was founded in 1926 as the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia as one of the first Architecture schools in Italy. The university curren ...

(architecture institute) founded. * 1945 - Operation Bowler. * 1949 - Cinema Teatro Corso built in Mestre. * 1956 - Venice Conference. * 1958 -

Hotel Cipriani The Belmond Hotel Cipriani is a deluxe hotel on the island of Giudecca in Venice, northern Italy. It is reached by hotel launch from St Mark's Square, a five-minute journey across the lagoon. Long considered one of the leading luxury hotels of t ...

in business. * 1966 - 4 November:

1966 Venice flood The 1966 Venice flood ( it, Alluvione di Venezia del 1966) was an unprecedented high water, known in Venice as an "''acqua alta"'', with waters reaching up to 194 cm. Overview On November 4, 1966, an abnormal occurrence of high tides, rain- ...

: highest ''

acqua alta (, ; ) is the term used in Veneto, Italy for the exceptional tide peaks that occur periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea. The peaks reach their maximum in the Venetian Lagoon, where they cause partial flooding of Venice and Chioggia; flood ...

''. * 1970 - Veneto regional administration implemented. * 1972 - 1 November: American poet

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

dies in the Civil Hospital and is buried on the

. * 1978 - Società Filologica Veneta

founded Founding may refer to: * The formation of a corporation, government, or other organization * The laying of a building's Foundation * The casting of materials in a mold See also * Foundation (disambiguation) * Incorporation (disambiguation) In ...

. * 1980 - June:

6th G7 summit The 6th G7 Summit was held at Venice, Italy between 22 and 23 June 1980. The venue for the summit meetings was the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in the Venetian lagoon.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the Past./ref ...

held. * 1981 - Venice hosts the

1981 European Karate Championships The 1981 European Karate Championships was held in Venice, Italy, from May 2–4, 1981. Medallists Men's Competition Individual Team Women's competition References

European Karate Championships, 1981 International sports ...

. * 1987 - June:

13th G7 summit The 13th G7 Summit was held in Venice, Italy between 8 and 10 June 1987. The venue for the summit meetings was the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in the Venetian lagoon.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the Past./ref> ...

held. * 1993 -

Massimo Cacciari Massimo Cacciari (; born 5 June 1944) is an Italian philosopher, politician and public intellectual. Biography Born in Venice, Cacciari graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua (1967), where he also received his doctorate, writing a ...

becomes mayor. * 1996 - 29 January:

opera house is destroyed by fire. * 1999 - City master plan created. * 2000 ** Paolo Costa becomes mayor. **

sold to a multi-national company for conversion into a private tourist hotel complex.

21st century

* 2003 - Buildings on

refurbished as a luxury hotel complex. * 2005 -

becomes mayor again. * 2006 - Veritas (water/trash municipal entity) established. * 2008 - Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia established. * 2010 -

Giorgio Orsoni Giorgio Orsoni (born 29 August 1946) is an Italian lawyer, politician and a former List of Mayors of Venice, mayor of Venice. Biography Orsoni has been a lawyer by profession since 1972 and is Professor of administrative law at the University Ca ...

becomes mayor. * 2013 - Population: 259,263 comune; 865,421 province. * 2014 ** June: Mayor Orsoni arrested. ** 29 September: Clooney- Alamuddin wedding. * 2015 - held;

Luigi Brugnaro Luigi Brugnaro (born 13 September 1961) is an Italian conservative politician and entrepreneur who has been the Mayor of Venice, since taking office on 15 June 2015. Since July 2021, he is also president of Coraggio Italia (CI), a centrist politi ...

becomes mayor. * 2019 - 12 November: Second highest ''

'' hits an already flooded city. * 2020 - the city of Venice is hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism is blocked and the Carnival of Venice is closed early. * 2021 - 1600th Anniversary of the Foundation of Venice.

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