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5th–7th century

HISTORY OF VENICE

Origins of Venice: lagoon settlements form.

697

HISTORY OF VENICE

Traditional election of the first Doge.

828

HISTORY OF VENICE

Relics of Saint Mark arrive in Venice.

9th–10th century

HISTORY OF VENICE

Construction of St Mark’s Basilica.

11th Century

MONUMENTS

1063–1094: Marble revetment of St Mark’s (Main phases)

11th–12th century

HISTORY OF VENICE

Venice asserts its civic identity

1204

HISTORY OF VENICE

Fourth Crusade

Conquest of Constantinople.

12th – 13th Century

MONUMENTS

Column of San Teodoro

Pilastro di Acri

Marble revetment of St Mark’s (Enriched)

Tetrarchs (Brought to Venice)

14th – 15th Century

MONUMENTS

1340–1350: Justice Capital (Ground-floor capitals of Doge’s Palace)

1420–1440: Adam & Eve (Rilievi of Doge’s Palace)

1438–1442: Porta della Carta

1340–1360

HISTORY OF VENICE

Gothic expansion of the Doge’s Palace.

1438–1442

HISTORY OF VENICE

Construction of the Porta della Carta.

15th–16th century

HISTORY OF VENICE

Venice at its height.

16th – 17th Century

MONUMENTS

1505–1520: Pili portabandiera

1550–1600: Drunkenness of Noah (Rilievi of Doge’s Palace)

1589–1614: Prigioni Nuove

1589–1614

HISTORY OF VENICE

Construction of the New Prisons.

18th century

HISTORY OF VENICE

Last splendour of the Republic.

Fall of the Republic.（1797）