PALLADIO'S ITALIAN VILLAS

Outside Events	Year	Events at Venice
		*[PERIOD OF SETTLEMENT]*
Attila's Hun invasion	452	Refugees flee mainland to lagoon islands
	466	Council of 12 lagoon townships formed
Alboin's Lombard invasion	568	Mainland settlements abandoned
	697	First Doge elected
Pepin's Frankish invasion	810	Settlement consolidated at Riva Alta, site of modern Venice
		*[PERIOD OF EASTERN EXPANSION]*
	1000	Dalmatia captured; empire begins
	1204	Constantinople captured by Venice and 4th Crusaders; Venice receives cessions of eastern shore of the Adriatic, the Cyclade and Sporade islands, and the shores of Thessaly, the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea, achieving control of the trade routes from Europe to both Constantinople and Asia Minor.
	1253 -1380	Wars with Genoa
		[PERIOD OF MAINLAND EXPANSION]
	1339	Treviso acquired
	1405	Padua, Vicenza and Verona acquired
	1420	Friuli acquired
	1429	Brescia and Bergamo acquired
Constantinople falls to Ottomans	1453
	1484	Rovigo and Polesine acquired
	1488	Cyprus acquired
		*[PERIOD OF DECLINE]*
Columbus discovers America	1492
DeGama sails Cape route to East	1497
Papal States, Lombardy, France form League of Cambrai	1509	Venice decisively defeated by League of Cambrai at Agnadello
	1538 -1580	The Period of Palladio's Villas
	1571	Cyprus lost to Ottoman Turks
	1668	Crete lost to Ottoman Turks
	1716	Morea lost to Ottoman Turks
Napoleon's French invasion	1797	Venice surrenders sovereignty, ending 1,100 years of independence