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1201
Chiarissimo de Medici appears in Florentine records
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1294
Anolfo di Cambio's design of Santa Maria del Fiore
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1296
Ardingo de Medici becomes gonfaloniere
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1299
Guccio de Medici becomes gonfaloniere
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1314
Averardo de Medici becomes gonfaloniere
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1320
Dante Alighieri completes the Divine Comedy
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1340
Banks of Bardi, Peruzzi and Acciaiuoli collapse
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1343
Giovanni de Medici leads the war on Lucca
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1347
Black Death arrives in Europe
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1353
Giovanni Boccaccio completes the Decameron
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1360
Giovanni di Bicci de Medici born
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1374
Petrarch finishes Il Canzoniere
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1377
Filippo Brunelleschi born
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1378
Salvestro de Medici becomes gonfaloniere - ciompi revolt
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1388
Vieri de Medici takes over the Bank
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1389
Cosimo de Medici born
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1396
Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi born
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1397
Medici Bank founded
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1401
Giovanni di Bicci serves on a panel to judge a competition to create new bronze doors for the Baptistery
Giovanni de Bicci chose Lorenzo Ghiberti and started the practice of patronage. This also opened his eyes to something greater than finance. -
1402
The Medici finance a cloth business
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1402
Giovanni di Bicci joins the Guild of Bankers and serves on the Signoria
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1402
Giovanni di Bicci befriends Cardinal Baldassare Cossa
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1410
Medici become Papal Bankers
Baldassare Cossa became Pope John XXIII, however the Catholic Church regards him as an antipope, as he opposed Pope Gregory XII whom the Catholic Church now recognizes as the rightful successor of Saint Peter. -
1414
Council of Constance
The Great Schism was when three people claimed the Papal throne - the Holy Roman Emperor kept this council to decide the Pope. Giovanni sent Cosimo, his son to represent the Medici Bank but the Medici lost the Papal account as Cossa was stripped of the Papacy. -
1415
Cosimo de Medici gets a seat in the Signoria
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1416
Cosimo marries Contessina - now owns Palazzo Bardi
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1416
Piero di Cosimo de Medici is born
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1417
Cosimo de Medici gets a seat in the Signoria
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1418
Brunelleschi wins the competition for the dome of Santa Maria Del Fiore
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1419
Giovanni di Bicci commissions Michelozzo and Donatello to create a tomb for Cossa
This tomb in Baptistery of Florence was one of the earliest examples of the Early Renaissance style. -
1419
Giovanni di Bicci forms a public committee to commission the Ospedale degli Innocenti
Starts the Medici-Brunelleschi association. Earliest example of the Early Renaissance style. -
1420
Cosimo de Medici and his brother Lorenzo take over the Bank from Giovanni di Bicci
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1421
Giovanni di Bicci becomes gonfaloniere
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1421
Giovanni di Bicci commissions the rebuilding of the Church of San Lorenzo
Brunelleschi was again commissioned to rebuild this Medici clan traditional church. -
1424
Medici Bank become Papal Bankers again
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1428
Giovanni di Bicci de Medici dies
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1428
Brunelleschi starts designing the renovation of San Spirito
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1430
Carlo di Cosimo de Medici, Cosimo's illegitimate son is born
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1430
Palazzo Medici commissioned
Cosimo commissions Brunelleschi to create Palazzo Medici, but chooses Michelozzo's more somber design -
1433
Cosimo exiled to Venice for five years
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1434
Cosimo is called back to Florence
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1436
Brunelleschi completes the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
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1437
Cosimo commissions Michelozzo to refurbish the monastery of San Marco
This was a result of the conflict between Cosimo’s faith and his worldly activities had begun to trouble his conscience; and when he was in his early forties he had a private audience with Pope Eugenius IV who suggested that to salve his conscience he could fund the rebuilding of the monastery of San Marco, and Cosimo immediately set Michelozzo to work on this project, one on
which he would eventually spend more than 30,000 florins. -
1439
Florence hosts the Ecumenical Council
The Ecumenical Council had been called to settle the differences between the Catholic Church of Rome and the Orthodox Church of Constantinople (also known as Byzantium, now Istanbul). This led the way for scholars of Ancient Greece trapped in Constantinople to come to Florence and spread humanist ideas. -
1442
Cosimo commissions the renovation of the church of San Lorenzo
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1444
Medici Library founded
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1446
Filippo Brunelleschi dies
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1449
Lorenzo de Medici 'il magnifico' is born
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1452
Leonardo da Vinci born
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1452
Ghiberti completes Baptistery doors - 'Gates of Paradise'
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1464
Cosimo de Medici dies
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1469
Lorenzo marries Clarice Orsini - now links to the Papacy
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1469
Piero di Cosimo de Medici dies
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1472
Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi dies
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1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti born
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1478
Pazzi conspiracy - Death of Giuliano di Piero de Medici
Francesco de Pazzi, Bernando Bandini, Francesco Salviati, Gian Battista da Montesecco, Girolamo Riario and others planned to kill both the Medici- but Lorenzo escaped and Giulano died. This happened during Easter Mass at the Florence Cathedral. -
1479
The Pope attacks Florence and issues a papal bull of excommunication
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1480
Lorenzo moves to Pisa and Naples
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1482
Lorenzo recommends da Vinci to the Duke of Milan; Leonardo moves to Milan for fifteen years
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1488
Girolamo Savonarola comes to Florence
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1492
Lorenzo de Medici 'il magnifico' dies
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1492
Piero di Lorenzo de Medici takes over the rule of Florence
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1494
The people of Florence reject Piero and Piero is banished from Florence
Piero surrendered the city to the French king Charles VIII -
1497
Savonarola conducts the 'Bonfire of the Vanities'
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1498
Savonarola executed
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1500
Michelangelo returns to Florence
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1503
Piero di Lorenzo de Medici dies
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1512
Cardinal Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici and his cousin Giulio retake Florence
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1513
Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici becomes Pope Leo X
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1518
Leo X commissions Michelangelo for the facade of San Lorenzo
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1519
Leonardo da Vinci dies
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1520
Michelangelo starts work on the New Sacristy
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1521
Leo X dies
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1523
Giulio di Giuliano de Medici becomes Pope Clement VII
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1527
Pope Leo X commissions Michelangelo to create the Medici tombs
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1527
The Sack of Rome
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1527
Medici ousted from Florence yet again
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1530
Alessandro de' Medici made Duke of Florence
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1533
Caterina de Medici marrie Henri de Valois, French prince
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1534
Clement VII dies
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1537
Cosimo I Duke of Florence takes over rule of Florence
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1537
Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence dies
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1541
Cosimo I commissions the Boboli Gardens
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1564
Michelangelo Buonarroti dies
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1581
Cosimo I commissions the Uffizi
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The Medici line ends
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Facade of Santa Maria Del Fiore completed with the design of Emilio de Fabris