| Vth Century
B.C. |
Etruscans
founded Fiesole
|
| 59 B.C. |
The roman
colony of Florentia is founded |
| 405 |
Florence is besieged by Ostrogoths |
| Late Vth Century |
Florence is taken by Ostrogoths |
| 774 |
Florence is taken by Carolingians |
| 962 |
Emperor
Ottone I st gives the city a
territory of six miles |
| 1082 |
Emperor
Henry II nd effortlessly besieges
the city |
| 1154 |
Florence is defeated by Pistoia |
| 1174 |
Conflicts between Florence and Siena |
| 1207 |
Florence battles and beats Siena |
| 1216 |
Nobles of Florence split into two rival
categories: Guelfs
and Ghibellines |
| 1220 |
The ambassadors of Florence and Pisa
have a dispute to cause a long lasting rivalry |
| 1229 |
War between Florence and Siena |
| 1248 |
Guelfi are banned |
| 1251 |
Guelfi are re-admitted, some Ghibellini
families are banned |
| 1252 |
Florence has its own currency |
| 1258 |
Ghibellini are all banned |
| 1260 |
Florence is defeated by Siena |
| 1265 |
Ghibellini are back, Dante
Alighieri comes to birth |
| 1268 |
War and victory against Pisa |
| 1269 |
War and victory against Siena |
| 1280 |
Peace between Guelfi and Ghibellini |
| 1300 |
Guelfi split into white Gulelfi and black
Guelfi |
| 1302 |
White Guelfi are banned |
| 1306 |
Florence takes the nearby city of Pistoia |
| 1313 |
Giovanni
Boccaccio comes to birth |
| 1321 |
Death of Dante Alighieri |
| 1338 |
With a population of about 100,000, Florence
buys the city of Lucca |
| 1348 |
Peast hits Florence |
| 1350 |
Florence takes the nearby city of Prato |
| 1362 |
War against Pisa |
| 1374 |
Francesco
Petrarca dies |
| 1375 |
Giovanni Boccaccio dies |
| 1377 |
Filippo
Brunelleschi comes to birth |
| 1384 |
Florence buys the city of Arezzo |
| 1386 |
Donato
di Niccolò di Betto, known as Donatello
comes to birth |
| 1400 |
Luca
della Robbia comes to birth |
| 1401 |
Tommaso
di ser Giovanni, known as Masaccio comes to
birth |
| 1406 |
Florence takes Pisa |
| 1421 |
Florence buys the city of Livorno |
| 1449 |
Lorenzo
de' Medici called the magnificent comes to
birth |
| 1451 |
Amerigo
Vespucci comes to birth |
| 1452 |
Leonardo
da Vinci comes to birth |
| 1469 |
Niccolò Machiavelli comes to birth |
| 1475 |
Michelangelo
Buonarroti comes to birth |
| 1492 |
Death of Lorenzo de' Medici |
| 1498 |
Girolamo
Savonarola is burnt in Piazza della Signoria |
| 1527 |
The
medici family is banned from Florence |
| 1531 |
The medici family is restored in Florence by
Charles V th |
| 1533 |
Caterina de' Medici becomes wife of the Henry
of Orleans, future king of France |
| 1539 |
Cosimo marries Eleonora doughter of Don
Pietro di Toledo, vice king of Neaples |
| 1549 |
Eleonora de' Medici buys the Pitti
palace |
| 1564 |
Francesco, Cosimo's sun becomes the city's
lord, Michelangelo dies in Rome |
| 1569 |
The
pope Paolo V th gives Cosimo the
entire Tuscany |
| 1574 |
Cosimo dies and Francesco inherits full power |
| 1587 |
Francesco and Bianca Cappello die, Ferdinando
gets the power |
| 1600 |
Maria de' Medici marries Henry IV th
of France |
| 1609 |
Ferdinando dies, his sun Cosimo II nd
comes to powers |
| 1621 |
Cosimo II nd dies, his sun
Ferdinando II nd comes to power |
| 1630 |
Peast hits Florence and surroundings |
| 1670 |
Ferdinando II nd dies, his sun
Cosimo III rd comes to power |
| 1691 |
Cosimo III rd is titled
"Royal Highness" |
| 1718 |
After the death of Cosimo's sun, it's
proposed that Carlo di Borbone succeed Cosimo III
rd |
| 1723 |
Cosimo III rd dies, his sun Gian
Gastone comes to power |
| 1731 |
Gian Gastone recognizes succession rights to
Carlo di Borbone |
| 1734 |
Carlo di Borbone invades the reign of
Neaples, succession rights of Florence are
reassessed |
| 1737 |
Gian Gastone dies, Marco di Craon comes to
power delegated by Francesco Stefano Lorena |
| 1740 |
Extraordinary flooding of the Arno river |
| 1765 |
Emperor Francesco Stefano Lorena dies, his
second sun Pietro Leopoldo inherits Florence |
| 1790 |
Emperor Giuseppe II nd dies,
Pietro Leopoldo inherits his rights and gives
Florence to his sun Ferdinando III rd |
| 1799 |
France invades Florence, Ferdinando III rd
escapes. 72 paintings are taken to France. France
abandones Florence which is taken by Austria
three days later |
| 1800 |
France invades Florence again |
| 1801 |
Ferdinando III rd renounces to
Florence that is given to Don Lodovico di Borbone |
| 1803 |
Lodovico dies, his sun Carlo Lodovico comes
to power |
| 1808 |
Florence is unified to France |
| 1814 |
Ferdinando III rd comes back to
power |
| 1816 |
The paintings taken from France are returned
to Florence |
| 1824 |
Ferdinando III rd dies, his sun
Leopoldo II nd comes to power |
| 1859 |
Leopoldo II nd abandones Florence |
| 1865 |
Florence becomes the Capital of Italy |
| 1944 |
Germans abandone Florence |
| 1966 |
Extraordinary
flooding of the Arno river |
| 1993 |
A
bomb explodes near the Uffizi gallery : five
people die and the gallery is damaged |