 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||
| 1452: Leonardo da Vinci born Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise unveiled Savonarola born 1453: Constantinople falls to invading Ottoman Turks Giuliano de'Medici born 1455: Donatello carves Penitent Mary Magdalene 1459: Gozzoli begins Medici chapel frescoes 1464: Cosimo il Vecchio dies; Piero il Gottoso takes over 1465: Botticelli apprenticed to Filippo Lippi 1466: Lorenzo de'Medici foils plot against his father 1468: Lorenzo de'Medici marries Clarice Orsini 1469: Piero il Gottoso dies; Lorenzo de'Medici takes over Flippo Lippi dies 1470: Leonardo starts working for Andrea del Verrocchio 1472: Verrocchio begins Baptism of Christ 1473: Medici bank beginning to lose money 1475: Giovanni de'Medici born Michelangelo born Botticelli paints Adoration of the Magi Savonarola runs away from home to join a monastery 1478: Pazzi conspiracy - Lorenzo's brother Giuliano murdered in brutal Easter Sunday attack Allies of the Pazzi, including Pope Sixtus IV declare war on Florence after Lorenzo murders Pazzi Giulio de'Medici born Botticelli paints Primavera 1480: Lorenzo strikes deal with King of Naples and returns to Florence as il Magnifico 1481: Leonardo da Vinci leaves Florence to work for the Duke of Milan 1482: Savonarola arrives in Florence, begins preaching against the Medici 1483: Martin Luther born 1485: Botticelli paints Birth of Venus 1487: Lorenzo's wife, Clarice, dies 1488: Michelangelo's talent is noticed by Lorenzo 1489: Giovanni de'Medici made Cardinal 1490: Savonarola preaches inside Florence Cathedral 1491: Savonarola made Prior of San Marco 1492: Christopher Columbus lands in the New World Lorenzo de'Medici dies 1494: Charles VIII invades Italy Florence: Medici expelled , Michelangelo flees, Savonarola seizes control 1497: Savonarola excommunicated; initiates the Bonfire of the Vanities 1498: Piero Soderini revives the Republic of Florence Machiavelli begins working for Signoria Savonarola executed Go to: Giovanni | Cosimo | Medici Popes | Cosimo I | Ferdinando II | The Last of the Medici |
||
 |
||
|
||
 |
Medici Popes' Era: 1501 - 1534 | |
|
||
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