Timeline of the Republic of Venice

5th century

421: 25 March (Friday) – Venice is founded, according to legend, with the establishment of a trading-post on the islands of the Rialto and a church dedicated to St. James by three consuls from Padua

452 – Attila the Hun sacks Aquileia

466 – Representatives of the island communities meet in Grado to work out a rudimentary system of self-government through tribunes elected annually by each of them

476 – Fall of the Western Roman Empire, after the deposition of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer

493 – Odoacer is overthrown by Theodoric the Great

6th century

535 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I launches the campaign which will become the Gothic War (535–554) for the re-conquest of Italy

539 – Ravenna falls and the provinces of Venetia and Istria belong to the Byzantine Empire

567 – The Exarchate of Italy is established, based in Ravenna with a tribune appointed to rule over maritime Venice

568 – Lombard invasion of Italy under King Alboin. Great numbers of refugees flee to the lagoons

Bishop Paul of Altino hears “a voice from heaven” commanding him to climb to the top of a nearby tower and look at the stars for the path to where he must lead his flock. They land at the island of Torcello – “the little tower”

The people of Aquileia land on Grado. The See of Aquileia was traditionally founded by St. Mark the Evangelist, so its transferral is significant. The bishop bears the title of Patriarch of Grado

The people of Concordia Sagittaria land on Caorle

The people of Padua land on Malamocco

7th century

639 – Lombards capture Oderzo whose inhabitants flee to Cittanova which is renamed Heraclea in honor of the Byzantine Emperor

697 – According to legend, a general assembly of all the peoples of the lagoons is called to Heraclea by the Patriarch of Grado and elects a single ruler in place of the twelve tribunes – Paolo Lucio Anafesto – who is most probably Paul, the Exarch of Ravenna

8th century

712 – King Liutprand of the Lombards occupies Ravenna but loses it to the Byzantines

726 – Byzantine Emperor Leo III orders the destruction of icons

727

Paul, Exarch of Ravenna is assassinated as is the provincial governor Marcellus who came into the legendary list of Doges as the second Doge.

Ursus (Orso Ipato) from Eraclea is chosen as captain of the rebels for the lagoon and is given the title of “Dux” (which becomes "Doge" in the local dialect, hence the third traditional Doge); and the title “Ipato” or Consul by the Byzantine Emperor

737 – Assassination of Doge Orso Ipato and beginning of the five year “Interregnum”

742 – Teodato Ipato, Doge Orso Ipato’s son, is elected Doge of Venice and transfers his seat of government from Heraclea to Malamocco where he rules as a sovereign

751

Fall of Ravenna by the Lombards under King Aistulf ends the Exarchate of Ravenna

The last Frankish Merovingian monarch, Childeric III, is deposed and the Carolingian Pepin the Short is elected King

753 – Pepin the Short, son of Charles Martel, invades Italy at the invitation of Pope Stephen II

755 – Doge Teodato Ipato is deposed and blinded by his successor, Doge Galla Gaulo

756 – Doge Galla Gaulo is deposed and blinded by Doge Domenico Monegario

764

In order to maintain necessary good relations with the Byzantine Empire and the Franks, two tribunes are elected annually to limit ducal power. Doge Domenico Monegario becomes resentful of the two tribunes and is deposed, blinded, and exiled

Doge Maurizio Galbaio, a well-born Heraclean with claims to descent from the Emperor Galba, is elected Doge

778 – Doge Maurizio Galbaio associates his son Giovanni with him in the Dogeship allowing him to succeed his father without popular sanction or the approval of his subjects

c.780 – The Rialto Islands begin to be permanently settled, and on the island of Olivolo (modern-day Castello), the church of Saints Bacchus and Sergius is reconsecrated to St. Peter and becomes the cathedral for Venice throughout the Republican era

787

Doge Maurizio Galbaio dies and is succeeded by his son, Giovanni Galbaio

Doge Giovanni Galbaio appoints his sixteen-year-old nephew Christopher bishop of Olivolo, but when the Patriarch of Grado refuses to consecrate him a flotilla of ships is sent to attack Grado, and there the elderly Patriarch of Grado is thrown to his death from a tower. The new Patriarch of Grado, Fortunatus, flees in exile to the court of Charlemagne at Aachen

9th century

803 - Opposition to the Galbaii family forces Doge Giovanni Galbaio, with his son Maurizio and nephew Christopher to flee to Mantua

804

Obelerio degli Antenori is elected Doge and immediately associates his son, Beato to the Dogeship

The exiled Patriarch of Grado, Fortunatus, returns to Venice from the court of Charlemagne at Aachen and offers to put Venetia under the protection of the Franks if he is reinstated. Doge Obelerio degli Antenori does so

805

25 December (Christmas Day) – Doge Obelerio degli Antenori and his son Beato do homage to Charlemagne in Aachen

Doge Obelerio degli Antenori chooses a Frankish bride; Carola, the first Dogaressa

809

A Byzantine fleet lands in the Venetian lagoon and attacks a Frankish flotilla at Comacchio but is defeated

Doge Obelerio degli Antenori and Beato raise their other brother Valentino to the Dogeship alongside them. The people rise up and called upon King Pepin of Italy to intervene

810

King Pepin of Italy besieges Venice; the siege lasts six months and Pepin's army is ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and forced to withdraw. A few months later Pepin dies

The Doge is deposed, and Agnello Participazio, who has defended Venice from the beginning, is elected Doge

Former Doge Obelerio degli Antenori spends the next two decades in exile in Constantinople

811 - Agnello Participazio is elected to the Dogeship. His Rialtine house on the Campiello della Cason becomes the first Doge's Palace in Venetian history and he soon begins expanding it in stone

827 - Giustiniano Participazio is elected Doge

828 - Relics of Saint Mark the Evangelist arrive in Venice having been stolen from Alexandria in Egypt by the merchants Bono da Malamocco and Rustico da Torcello

829 - Giovanni I Participazio arrested, and tonsured (head shaved like monk)

832 - Former Doge Obelerio degli Antenori returns from two decades of exile in Constantinople with a band of faithful men to reclaim the Dogeship. He lands at Vigilia, near Malamocco, but the legitimate Doge, Giovanni Participazio, razes the two cities and kills Obelerio degli Antenori displaying his head in the market

837 - Pietro Gradonico assassinated, although in this case his successor arrests and executes the assassins

839 - Mislav of Croatia makes a peace treaty with doge Pietro Tradonico, which leads to the growth of Croatian sea power

840 - Pietro's military assault on the Narentines fails

841 - The Republic of Venice sends a fleet of 60 galleys (each carrying 200 men) to assist the Byzantines in driving the Arabs from Crotone, but fail

846 - The Narentines breach Venice itself, and raid the neighbouring lagoon city of Caorle

864 - Orso I Participazio is elected Doge

881 - Giovanni II Participazio resigns due to poor health

887 - Narentines defeated Venetians near the town of Makarska, killing the Venetian doge Pietro I Candiano in open battle. Venetians start paying prince Branimir (879–892), an annual tribute for the right to travel and trade in the Adriatic Sea

888 - Pietro Tribuno is elected Doge

10th century

912 - Orso II Participazio is elected Doge

932 - Pietro II Candiano is elected Doge

939 - Pietro Participazio is elected Doge

942 - Pietro III Candiano is elected Doge

948 - With the weakening of Byzantium, Venice began to see Ragusa as a rival who needed to be brought under her control, but the attempt to conquer the city failed

959 - Pietro IV Candiano is locked in his palace with his son while it burned.

976 - Pietro I Orseolo resigned to become a Camaldolese hermit in Abbey of Sant Miguel de Cuxa in the Pyrenees

978 - Vitale Candiano is elected Doge

979 - Tribuno Memmo is elected Doge

991 - Pietro II Orseolo gave the majority of his wealth to the poor and the Church, and retired to a monastery

996 - Venetian Doge Pietro II Orseolo stops paying tax ("solitus census") for safe trade to the Croatian king Stjepan Držislav after a century of peace, renewing old hostilities

11th century

1000 - An expedition of 6 ships in Istria and Dalmatia commanded by Doge Pietro II Orseolo secured the Venetian suzerainty in the area, and Slav (=Croats) pirates were suppressed permanently. The bloodiest armed conflict during the expedition was the battle of Lastovo

1009 - Otto Orseolo arrested, beard shaved, and banished to Constantinople for nepotism. He was the father of King Peter Urseolo of Hungary.

1026 - Pietro Barbolano abdicated under heavy pressure to reinstate Otto Orseolo

1032 - Domenico Flabanico is elected Doge

1043 - Domenico Contarini is elected Doge

1071 - Domenico Selvo is elected Doge

1082 - Needing Venetian naval assistance, the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos grants them major trading concessions within his Empire in a chrysobull

1084

Domenico Selvo personally leads a fleet against the Normans, but is defeated and loses 9 great galleys, the largest and most heavily armed ships in the Venetian war fleet. He is deposed the same year by popular revolt to a monastery where he dies three years later

Vitale Faliero is elected Doge

1099 - St Mark's Basilica is consecrated in the presence of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV

1096

First Crusade begins

Vitale I Michiel is elected Doge

12th century

1102 - Ordelafo Faliero is elected Doge

1104 - Traditional date for commencement of construction of the permanent Arsenale

1105 - Great fire of Venice

1110 - Ordelafo Faliero personally commands a Venetian fleet of 100 ships to assist Baldwin I of Jerusalem in capturing the city of Sidon

1116: July 15 - Doge Ordelafo Faliero conquers the troops of Stephen II of Hungary who have arrived to relieve Zara and the remaining towns of Dalmatia surrender to Venice

1117 - Stephen II of Hungary regains Dalmatia while the Venetians are on a naval expedition, Doge Ordelafo Faliero dying in battle near Zara; Domenico Michele is elected Doge to succeed him, reconquers the territory and agrees a 5-year truce

1122 - Byzantine emperor John II Komnenos refuses to renew the trading rights granted by Alexios I in 1082. The Venetian fleet raids the Greek coasts in retaliation, until the rights are re-confirmed in 1125

1130 - Pietro Polani is elected Doge

1143 - The Commune Veneciarum is founded

1148 - Domenico Morosini is elected Doge

1156 - Vital II Michele is elected Doge

1171 - The Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos expels all Venetians from Constantinople. Outbreak of a war that continues inconclusively until relations normalize ca. 1180

1172

The Maggior Consiglio - the Great Council of Venice - is founded

Sebastiano Ziani is elected Doge

1177 - Pope Alexander III is reconciled with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in the Basilica of St. Mark thanks to the intercession of Doge Sebastiano Ziani

1178 - Orio Mastropiero is elected Doge

1182 – Massacre of the Latins in Constantinople

1183 – The Dalmatian city of Zara (Zadar) rebels against Venetian rule

1192 - Enrico Dandolo is elected Doge and is the first Doge to make the promissione ducale

13th century

1202: 23 November - The Fourth Crusade sacks the Croatian town of Zadar (Italian: Zara), a rival of Venice. Unable to raise enough funds to pay to their Venetian contractors, the crusaders agree to sack the city despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding such an action and threatening excommunication. The Siege of Zara is the first major action of the Crusade and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders

1203 - The Fourth Crusade is diverted towards the Byzantine capital, Constantinople

1204: April - Sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders and partition of the Byzantine Empire (Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae), from which Venice emerges as the major beneficiary. Doge Enrico Dandolo obtains the title of Lord of a Quarter and Half a Quarter of the Roman Empire. Venice seizes the Horses of Saint Mark

1205

Pietro Ziani is elected Doge

1211 - The island of Candia (Crete) is annexed to Venice

1229

Jacopo Tiepolo is elected Doge

The founding of the Consiglio dei Pregadi (Senate)

1249 - Marino Morosini is elected Doge

1252 - Reniero Zeno is elected Doge

1256 - Outbreak of the first war against Genoa, the "War of Saint Sabas", which lasts until 1270

1261 - Reconquest of Constantinople by the Byzantine Greek Empire of Nicaea and re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire

1263 - Venetian victory against the Genoese and Byzantines at the Battle of Settepozzi

1266 - Venetian victory against the Genoese at the Battle of Trapani

1268 - Lorenzo Tiepolo is elected Doge

1271 - Marco Polo leaves for Cathay

1275 - Jacopo Contarini is elected Doge

1280 - Giovanni Dandolo is elected Doge

1284 - First gold ducat is minted, which is to be known as the zecchino beginning in 1554

1289 - Pietro Gradenigo is elected Doge

1294 - Renewal of hostilities with Genoa, which last until 1299

1295

Return of Marco Polo from Cathay

Pietro Gradenigo sent a fleet of 68 ships to attack a Genoese fleet at Alexandretta

1297 - Admission to the Maggior Consiglio - the Great Council of Venice - is restricted for the first time on 28 February

1298 - Marco Polo is taken prisoner during the Battle of Curzola by Genoa

1299 - Pietro Gradenigo sends a fleet of 100 ships to attack the Genoese

14th century

1310: 14 June - Plot by Baiamonte Tiepolo and Marco Querini is quelled. The Consiglio dei Dieci - the Council of Ten - is set up to try the culprits

1311 - Marino Zorzi is elected Doge

1312 - Giovanni Soranzo is elected Doge

1328 - Francesco Dandolo is elected Doge

1337 - Serrvalle is acquired

1339

Bartolomeo Gradenigo is elected Doge

Treviso is taken from the Scaligeri

Bassano del Grappa is acquired

1342 - Andrea Dandolo is elected Doge

1345 - Siege of Zadar begins and lasts until 1346. It was successful.

1348 - The Black Plague begins to spread in Venice killing half of the population

1350 - Third war with Genoa breaks out and lasts until 1355. Venice allies with the Byzantines and the Pisans

1354 - Marino Faliero is elected Doge and convicted of treason after a failed attempt to overthrow Republican Rule on 17 April. He is executed and condemned to damnatio memoriae

1355 - Giovanni Gradenigo is elected Doge

1356 - Giovanni Dolfin is elected Doge

1361 - Lorenzo Celsi is elected Doge

1363 – A colonial revolt breaks out in Crete that needed considerable military force and five years to suppress

1365 - Marco Cornaro is elected Doge

1367 - Andrea Contarini is elected Doge

1368 - The War of Trieste begins in order to secure Adriatic trade routes. The war ends in 1370

1378 - Outbreak of the fourth and final Venetian–Genoese War, the "War of Chioggia", which lasts until 1381

1380

The Venetians destroy the Genoese fleet at the Battle of Chioggia

Oderzo is acquired

1381 - End of the War of Chioggia with the Peace of Turin on 8 August

1382 - Michele Morosini is elected Doge

1382 - Antonio Venier is elected Doge

1388 - Treviso passes into permanent Venetian control

1389 - December 19 - Episcopal County of Ceneda which includes Conegliano peacefully submits to Venetian overlordship

15th century

1400 - Michele Steno is elected Doge

1404 - Venice extends its rule over Vicenza, Belluno, and Feltre

1405 - Venice acquires Vicenza, Verona, Padua, and Este

1409 - Ladislaus of Naples sells his "rights" on Dalmatia to the Republic of Venice for 100,000 ducats. Dalmatia will with some interruptions remain under Venetian rule for nearly four centuries, until 1797.

1410 - Venice has a navy of 3,300 ships (manned by 36,000 men) and has taken over most of Venetia, including such important cities as Verona and Padua

1413 - Tommaso Mocenigo is elected Doge

1420

Venice conquers the Patriarchate of Aquileia

Traù, Spalato, Durazzo and other Dalmatian cities are acquired

1423

Francesco Foscari is elected Doge

August - The Treaty of Sveti Srdj ends the Second Scutari War with the Serbian Despotate

1425 - War breaks out against Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan

1426

Treaty of Vučitrn confirms arrangements ending the Second Scutari War

Brescia becomes a Venetian possession

1428 - Bergamo becomes a Venetian possession

1446 - The Republic fights another league, formed by Milan, Florence, Bologna and Cremona

1453: May 29 - Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks, but Venice manages to maintain a colony in the city and some of the former trade privileges it had under the Byzantines

1454

The Ottoman Turks grant the Venetians access to their ports and trading rights

The Peace of Lodi confirms Venetian rule as far as the Adda (river)

1457 - Pasquale Malipiero is elected Doge after Doge Francesco Foscari is forced to abdicate by the Council of Ten

1462 - Cristoforo Moro is elected Doge

1463 - Outbreak of the First Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–79)

1471 - Nicolo Tron is elected Doge

1473 - Nicolo Marcello is elected Doge

1474 - Pietro Mocenigo is elected Doge

1476 - Andrea Vendramin is elected Doge

1478 - Giovanni Mocenigo is elected Doge

1479 - January 24: Treaty of Constantinople is signed, finally making peace with the Ottoman Turks. Venice has to cede Argos, Negroponte, Lemnos and Scutari, and pay an annual tribute of 10,000 gold ducats. In September, painter Gentile Bellini is sent by the Senate to the new Ottoman capital, Constantinople, as a cultural ambassador

1481 Venice retakes Rovigo which it had held previously from 1395-1438

1482 - Venice allied with Pope Sixtus IV in his attempt to conquer Ferrara, opposed to Florence, Naples, Milan and Ercole d'Este

1484 - The treaty of peace between Venice and the Ottoman Turks is confirmed by Mehmed II's successor, Bayezid II, with the pacific exchange of the islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia between the two states

1485 - Marco Barbarigo is elected Doge

1486 - Agostino Barbarigo is elected Doge

1489 - February -Catherine Cornaro, widow of the last king, James II, willingly cedes Cyprus to Venice

1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers the Americas launching further explorations (including the Portuguese pioneering an all-sea route to India in 1498) that ultimately begin to weaken trade in the Mediterranean

1495 - In exchange of the financial support provided by the Republic to the Kingdom of Naples against France, Venice receives from Ferdinand II of Naples some ports on the coast of Apulia: Trani, Mola di Bari (where the castle remains unconquered), Monopoli, Brindisi, Otranto, Gallipoli.

1499 - Venice allies itself with Louis XII of France against Milan, gaining Cremona. **Outbreak of the Second Ottoman–Venetian War, when the Ottoman sultan moves to attack Lepanto. The Venetian fleet under Antonio Grimani, more a businessman and diplomat than a sailor, is defeated by the Ottoman navy in the Battle of Zonchio

16th century

1501 - Leonardo Loredan is elected Doge

1508 - Eager to take some of Venice's lands, all neighbouring powers join in the League of Cambrai under the leadership of Pope Julius II

1509 - Venice is engaged in various military endeavors

14 May: Venice is crushingly defeated at the Battle of Agnadello, in the Ghiara d'Adda, marking one of the most delicate points of Venetian history. French and imperial troops were occupying the Veneto, but Venice manages to extricate herself through diplomatic efforts

July: Andrea Gritti recaptures Padua, successfully defending it against the besieging imperial troops. Spain and the Pope break off their alliance with France, and Venice regains Brescia and Verona from France

1515 - Venice forms an alliance with France and defeats the imperial and Swiss soldiers in the battle of Marignano

1514: 10 January - Great fire in the Rialto

1516 - Venetian Ghetto instituted

1521 - Antonio Grimani is elected Doge

1523 - Andrea Gritti is elected Doge

1530 - End of the Venetian domination in Apulian ports in Mola di Bari, Monopoli, Trani, Brindisi, Otranto e Gallipoli.

1537 - Outbreak of the Third Ottoman–Venetian War, which lasts until 1540. The Ottomans unsuccessfully besiege Corfu

1538 - Pietro Lando is elected Doge

1545 - Francesco Donato is elected Doge

1553 - Marcantonio Trivisan is elected Doge

1554 - Francesco Venier is elected Doge

1556 - Lorenzo Priuli is elected Doge

1559 - Girolamo Priuli is elected Doge

1563 - The population of Venice has dropped to about 168,000 people

1567 - Pietro Loredan is elected Doge

1569

Five banks fail

13/14 September - Arsenale fire

1570 - Alvise I Mocenigo is elected Doge. Outbreak of the Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73), when the Ottomans attack Cyprus. Formation of the Holy League including Venice, Spain and the Papacy

1571

1 August - Famagusta is surrendered to the Ottomans. The Venetian defender Marco Antonio Bragadin is subsequently flayed alive

7 October - The Christian fleet defeats the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto but the allies fail to take advantage of their victory

1573 - The loss of Cyprus is ratified in the peace of 1573

1575 - The population of Venice is about 175,000 people

1575-1577 - Bubonic plague strikes Venice, killing around 25% of the population

1577 - Sebastiano Venier is elected Doge

1578 - Nicolò da Ponte is elected Doge

1581 - The population of Venice is down to about 124,000 people

1585 - Pasqual Cicogna is elected Doge

1588: 9 June - The first stone of the Rialto Bridge is laid

1591 - The Rialto Bridge is completed

1595 - Marino Grimani is elected Doge

17th century

1605 - Conflict between Venice and the Holy See begins with the arrest of two members of the clergy guilty of petty crimes, and with a law restricting the Church's right to enjoy and acquire landed property; Venetian Interdict imposed

1606

Leonardo Donato is elected Doge

Venetian Interdict lifted due to intercession with the Pope by France

1609 - Galileo Galilei presents a telescope to Venice

1612 - Marcantonio Memmo is elected Doge

1615

Giovanni Bembo is elected Doge

War of Gradisca against Uskok pirates begins, continuing until 1617

1617 - The Spanish viceroy of Naples attempts to break Venetian dominance by sending a naval squadron to the Adriatic and fails

1618

Nicolò Donato is elected Doge

Antonio Priuli is elected Doge

1623 - Francesco Contarini is elected Doge

1624 - Giovanni I Cornaro is elected Doge

1630

Nicolò Contarini is elected Doge

Plague breaks out in Venice

1631

Francesco Erizzo is elected Doge

The plague ends in Venice with 50,000 dead - nearly a third of the population. As a votive offering for the city's deliverance from the pestilence, Venice builds a church to Our Lady of Health (Santa Maria della Salute)

1638 - While the Venetian fleet is cruising off Crete, a corsair fleet from Barbary consisting of 16 galleys from Algiers and Tunis enters the Adriatic

1645 - Beginning of the Cretan War (1645–69) (Candian War) between Venice and the Ottoman Turks. Although Venice is generally superior at sea, its forces are unable to prevent the Turks from landing in and conquering much of Crete, nor of dislodging them after

1646 - Francesco Molin is elected Doge

1647: August–September - The Ottomans lay siege to Sebenico, in modern-day Croatia, but fail to take it

1648 - During the Cretan War, Venetian commander Leonardo Foscolo seizes several forts in Croatia, retakes Novigrad, temporarily captures the Knin Fortress, and manages to compel the garrison of Klis Fortress to surrender.

1655 - Carlo Contarini is elected Doge

1656

Francesco Cornaro is elected Doge

Bertuccio Valiero is elected Doge

1658 - Giovanni Pesaro is elected Doge

1659 - Domenico II Contarini is elected Doge

1666 - An expedition to retake Chania fails

1669 - An attempt to lift the siege of Candia with joint action on land with the French contingent and by sea under Mocenigo fails. End of the Cretan War (1645–69) with Venice losing Crete

1674 - Nicolò Sagredo is elected Doge

1676 - Alvise Contarini is elected Doge

1683 - Marcantonio Giustinian is elected Doge

1684 - Venice, taking advance of the recent Turkish defeat in the siege of Vienna, forms an alliance with Austria against the Ottoman Turks. Beginning of the Morean War, a part of the Great Turkish War, which lasts until 1699

1688

Francesco Morosini is elected Doge

Morosini fails to capture Negroponte

1694 - Silvestro Valiero is elected Doge

1699 - The Great Turkish War ends with the Treaty of Karlowitz. Venice makes extensive territorial gains in southern Greece

18th century

1700 - Alvise II Mocenigo is elected Doge

1709 - Giovanni II Cornaro is elected Doge

1714 - December: the Ottoman Turks declared war on Venice, the seventh and last conflict between the two powers.

1715 - A huge Ottoman army under Grand Vizier Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha overruns the Morea

1716 - Successful defense against Ottoman siege of Corfu. Austrian intervention takes off pressure from the Venetians, but they are unable to retake their lost possessions

1717 - Performance of Juditha Triumphans an oratorio of Antonio Vivaldi commissioned by the Republic to celebrate allegorically the defense of Corfu

1718: 21 July - The Treaty of Passarowitz – Austria makes large territorial gains, but Venice loses the Morea, for which her small gains in Albania and Dalmatia, where the Venetians are able to advance up to the modern-day Bosnian/Croatian border, taking in the whole Sinjsko field and Imotski, are little compensation

1722 - Sebastiano Mocenigo is elected Doge

1732 - Carlo Ruzzini is elected Doge

1735 - Alvise Pisani is elected Doge

1741 - Pietro Grimani is elected Doge

1744 - Work begins at the Lido on construction of the murazzi breakwater to protect the lagoon from sea storms

1752 - Francesco Loredan is elected Doge

1762 - Marco Foscarini is elected Doge

1763 - Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo is elected Doge

1779 - Paolo Renier is elected Doge

1782 - Pope Pius VI visits Venice along with several princes of Russia

1785 - Angelo Emo begins an expedition to northern Africa against the Barbary pirates. His expedition will en in 1786

1789 - Ludovico Manin is elected Doge. He will ultimately be the last Doge of the Republic of Venice

1796 - Prelude to the Fall of the Republic

The Republic of Venice can no longer defend itself since its war fleet numbers only 4 galleys and 7 galliots

French troops occupy the Venetian state up to the Adige. Vicenza, Cadore and Friuli are held by the Austrians

1797 - The Fall of the Republic

April 9 - Napoleon threatens Venice with war

May 1 - Domenico Pizzamano fires on a French ship trying to force an entry from the Lido forts. Napoleon declares war

May 12 - The Maggior Consiglio - the Great Council of Venice - sits for the last time and approves a motion to hand over power "to the system of the proposed provisional representative government", although there is not a quorum of votes: 512 vote for, ten against, and five abstain

May 16 - The provisional municipal government meets in the Hall of the Maggior Consiglio. The preliminaries of the Peace of Leoben are made even harsher in the Treaty of Campoformio, and Venice and all her possessions become Austrian

October 18 - The accord is signed at Passariano, forcing Ludovico Manin to abdicate and thus ending the Republic of Venice after more than a thousand years