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| c. 1400 |
| | | Majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware, reaches Italy from Majorca and thus gets its name | |
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| 1406 |
| | | Pisa is captured by Florence, to be followed a few years later by the purchase of the seaport of Livorno | |
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| 1409 |
| | | The Council at Pisa elects a new pope, Alexander V, without persuading the other two to resign - bringing the total to an unprecedented three | |
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| 1411 |
| | | The linen drapers of Florence commission a statue of St Mark from Donatello, who carves for Orsanmichele the first free-standing Renaissance sculpture | |
|  | Donatello, St George
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| 1415 |
| | | Filippo Brunelleschi begins studying the ruins of classical Rome, with a view to rediscovering classical architecture | |
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| 1418 |
| | | A competition is launched for an architect to construct a dome above Florence's cathedral, and is won by Brunelleschi | |
|  | Florence, the cathedral dome
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| 1423 |
| | | Masaccio paints some of the frescoes in the chapel of a Florentine silk merchant, Felice Brancacci, in Santa Maria del Carmine | |
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| 1430 |
| | | Work begins in Florence on Brunelleschi's Pazzi chapel, which encapsulates in miniature the new ideals of Renaissance architecture | |
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| 1433 |
| | | Cosimo de' Medici, arrested by a rival faction, escapes with his life thanks to bribes and well-placed friends | |
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| 1436 |
| | | Perspective fascinates Italian Renaissance painters after the publication of Alberti's treatise on the subject, De Pictura | |
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