| 1420 |
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Filippo Brunelleschi credited with invention of linear perspective in art |
| 1434 |
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Cosimo di Medici begins Medici rule in Florence |
| 1435 |
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Donatello makes bronze sculpture "David" |
| 1436 |
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Filippo Brunelleschi designs Duomo of Florence |
| 1455 |
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Death of Fra Angelico (artist) |
| 1469 |
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Lorenzo di Medici (the Magnificent) rules in Florence |
| 1494 |
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Italy invaded by French under Charles VIII |
| 1498 |
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Death of Girolamo Savonarola (preacher and reformer) |
| 1500 |
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High Renaissance in art centred in Italy |
| 1503 |
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Powerful Italian general Caesar Borgia defeated in Spain |
| 1510 |
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Death of Sandro Botticelli (artist) |
| 1513 |
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Niccolo Machiavelli writes "The Prince" |
| 1515 |
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Francis I of France takes Milan and much of Northern Italy |
| 1519 |
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Death of Leonardo da Vinci (artist and scientist) |
| 1520 |
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Death of Raphael (artist) |
| 1525 |
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Charles V of Hapsburg retakes Northern Italy from France |
| 1564 |
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Death of Michelangelo (artist) |
| 1576 |
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Death of Titian (artist) |
| 1582 |
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Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII |
| 1594 |
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Death of Tinteretto (artist) |
| 1594 |
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Death of Pierluigi da Palestrina (composer) |
| 1642 |
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Death of Galileo Galileo (astronomer) |
| 1643 |
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Death of Claudio Monteverde (composer) |
| 1669 |
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Last major eruption of Mount Etna, Sicily (20,000 killed) |
| 1737 |
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Death of Antonio Stadivari (violin-maker) |
| 1741 |
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Death of Antonio Vivaldi (composer) |
| 1770 |
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Death of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) |
| 1798 |
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Death of Giovanni Giacomo Casanova (adventurer and fabled lover) |
