| 1360 |
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Giovanni “Big Change” di Bicci is born |
| 1377 |
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Filippo Brunelleschi is born |
| 1386 |
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Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto) is born |
| 1389 |
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Cosimo “Pater Patriae” de’ Medici is born |
| 1400 |
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Luca della Robbia is born |
| 1401 |
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Masaccio (Tommaso di ser Giovanni) is born |
| 1406 |
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Florence takes Pisa |
| 1410 |
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Death of Pope Giovanni [John] XXIII (Baldassarre Cossa) |
| 1414 |
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Pope Sixtus IV (Francesco della Rovere) is born
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| 1416 |
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Piero “il Gottoso” de’ Medici is born |
| 1421 |
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Florence buys the city of Livorno |
| 1429 |
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Death of Giovanni “Big Change” di Bicci |
| 1432 |
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Ufficiali di Notte (Office of the Night) is created |
| 1436 |
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Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore is inaugurated |
| 1437 |
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Cosimo de Medici opens world's first public library at San Marco |
| 1439 |
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Council of Florence: leads to a temporary union of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches |
| 1443 |
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Archbishop Francesco Salviati is born |
| 1445 |
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Sandro Botticelli is born |
| 1449 |
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Lorenzo de' Medici is born |
| 1451 |
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Amerigo Vespucci is born |
| 1452 |
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Leonardo da Vinci is born |
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Girolamo Savonarola is born |
| 1453 |
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Giuliano de’ Medici is born |
| 1464 |
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Death of Cosimo “Pater Patriae” de’ Medici |
| 1469 |
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Niccolò Machiavelli is born |
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Death of Piero “il Gottoso” de’ Medici |
| 1475 |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti is born |
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Pope Leo X (Giovanni de'Medici) is born |
| 1478 |
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Pope Clement VII (Giulio de'Medici) is born |
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The Pazzi Conspiracy |
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Death of Giuliano de' Medici |
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Execution of Archbishop Francesco Salviati |
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King Ferrente of Naples declares war on Florence |
| 1479 |
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Lorenzo de’ Medici negotiates a peace with King Ferrente of Naples and is declared “il magnifico” by Florentines |
| 1484 |
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Death of Pope Sixtus IV (Francesco della Rovere) |
| 1488 |
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Michelangelo's talent is noticed by Lorenzo |
| 1491 |
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Girolamo Savonarola made Prior of San Marco |
| 1492 |
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Death of Lorenzo de' Medici |
| 1497 |
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Girolamo Savonarola is Excommunicated and initiates the “Bonfire of the Vanities” |
| 1498 |
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Girolamo Savonarola is burnt in Piazza della Signoria |
