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| 1501: Michelangelo returns to Florence to carve David 1503: Medici cousins - Giovanni and Giulio - arrive in Rome David unveiled outside Palazzo Vecchio 1504: Michelangelo and Leonardo design competing frescoes 1505: Luther enters Erfurt monastery 1507: Michelangelo paints Doni Tondo 1508: Julius II launches Papal Wars Michelangelo begins Sistine Chapel 1510: Allessandro de'Medici born Botticelli dies 1511: Giorgio Vasari born 1512: Sack of Prato Machiavelli exiled Luther made Professor of Theology at Wittenberg University 1513: Giovanni de'Medici elected Pope Leo X Machiavelli writes The Prince 1514: Giulio de'Medici made a cardinal 1515: Leo X unveils a "jubilee sale" of Papal Indulgences 1516: Conspiracy against Leo X 1517: Martin Luther publishes 95 Theses 1519: Catherine de'Medici born Cosimo de'Medici born Leonardo da Vinci dies in France Michelangelo begins work on Medici tombs 1520: Martin Luther excommunicated 1521: Leo X dies Luther resists pressure to recant and is kidnapped by his protector, Frederick the Wise 1522: Luther returns home, continues to write 1523: Giulio de'Medici elected Pope Clement VII 1525: Luther marries 1526: Henry VIII of England asks Pope Clement for a divorce Giovanni dalle Bande Nere killed in action 1527: Sack of Rome Medici expelled from Florence Michelangelo's David broken 1529: The "Protestation" of German followers of Luther is published, coining the term "Protestant" 1530: Siege of Florence ends, Alessandro de'Medici made Duke of Florence 1534: Catherine de'Medici marries Prince Henri of France Clement VII dies Michelangelo begins the Last Judgement The Church of England breaks away from the Papacy Luther publishes a German Bible Go to:Giovanni | Cosimo | Lorenzo | Cosimo I | Ferdinando II | The Last of the Medici |
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Giovanni's Era: 1360-1400
Cosimo's Era: 1401 - 1450
Lorenzo's Era: 1452 - 1498
Medici Popes' Era: 1501 - 1534
Cosimo I's Era: 1537 - 1574
Ferdinando II's Era: 1581 - 1687
The Last of the Medici: 1723 - 1743