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1340

1340

1342

1347

1347-48

1350

1353-57

1354

Troops disembarking from a ship in the face of resistance from lightly armoured archers, taken from the early-14th-century Franco-ltalian Librę des Roumans; Histoire lulius Cesar. (Cod. Marc. Fr. Z.3, f.49v, Biblioteca Marciana, Venice; photograph by Foto Toso)

1357

1358

1360

1363

1364

1366

1367 1367-70

1372-73

1377

1378

1378-81

1378-1417

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1385-1402

1387

1390-1404

Election of First Doge (Duke) of Genoa.

Walter de Brienne, titular Duke of Athens, appointed ruler of Florence (later forced out in 1343); Florence remains a republic.

Cola di Rienzi attempts to revive the Roman Republic as a focus for Italian unity.

Black Death reaches Italy.

Gioyanni Visconti of Milan attacks Florence; Papai forces campaigning in the Romagna;

Savoy defeats Swiss at Sion.

Crusades to regain control of Papai States in central Italy.

Crossbowmen reorganised as a separate part of the Florentine militia; Spoleto incorporated into Papai States; militia of Milan defeat mercenary company of Conrad of Landau in service of Mantua.

Savoy takes Yerrua front Marquis of Monferrato.

Mercenary Grand Company defeated while Crossing Florentine territory.

Grusade against Milan (renewed in 1363 and 1368); Peace of Bretigny between France and England (100 Years War) results in large numbers of unemployed mercenary troops arriving in Italy.

Mercenary Fnglish Wbite Company defeat Florentine militia.

Florentine militia defeats White Company.

League of central Italian cities against freebooting mercenary companies.

Genoa seizes Corsica.

Papacy temporarily returns to Romę from ‘Babylonish Exile’ in Avignon.

War between Venice and Padua, and between Venice and Hungary.

Papacy returns to Romę.

Ciompi uprising by the Popolo Minuto (minor guilds) and artisans in Florence temporarily breaks the power of the Guelfs and the Popolo Grasso (greater guilds).

Venice defeats Genoa.

Great Schism with two rival Popes.

Popolo Grasso regains political power in Florence and forms an oligarchy.

Gian Galeazzo Visconti almost succeeds in uniting northern and central Italy by force.

Padua defeats Yerona at Castagnaro.

Resistance movement under Elenore of Arborea against Aragonese in Sardinia.

End of war between Florence and Milan.

1392