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| 1295 |
| | | Marco Polo is back in Venice after an absence of 25 years in the east | |
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| c. 1340 |
| | | The Doge's Palace, begun in its present form in this year, is only one of the spectacular beauties of Venetian Gothic | |
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| 1380 |
| | | The Venetian blockade of Chioggia costs Genoa her fleet and ends Genoese rivalry with Venice in the eastern Mediterranean | |
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| 1470 |
| | | The first Italian printing press is set up in Venice, which soon rivals Germany for the quality of its printing | |
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| c. 1475 |
| | | Giovanni Bellini becomes the key figure in the development of the Renaissance style in Venice | |
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| 1489 |
| | | Venice's annexation of Cyprus completes a useful chain of islands stretching to the eastern Mediterranean | |
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| c. 1495 |
| | | The type faces known as roman and italic are created in Venice by the printers Nicolas Jenson and Aldus Manutius | |
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| 1510 |
| | | Giorgione and Titian introduce the richness of colour which characterizes the high Renaissance style in Venice | |
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| 1510 |
| | | The painter Giorgione dies after a short but extremely influential life in Venice | |
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| 1516 |
| | | The original ghetto is established as a district to which the Jews of Venice are confined | |
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