Avignon Timeline

By AGF
  • Jun 4, 1305

    Pope Clement V moves to France to escape the the oppression coming from Italy.

  • May 6, 1312

    Council of Vienne ends, but Pope Clement is too ill to make it back to Rome.

  • Jan 1, 1348

    Avignon becomes Papal Property. This means that Avignon is now the place of the Pope.

  • Jan 1, 1370

    Pope Urban V decides to go back to Avignon because of difficulties between France and England.

  • Jan 17, 1377

    Pope Gregory XI is persuaded to move the papacy back to Rome.

  • Jan 1, 1378

    Urban VI, the Archbishop of Bari, is elected to avoid a massacre in Rome.

  • Jan 1, 1477

    The Great Schism is finally healed, and the Pope is now officially back in Rome.