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House of Medici

royal family

12 dated entries naming House of Medici, drawn from 12 separate years between 1400 CE and 1737 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Medici, Medici Family in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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14th century

  • 1400The House of Medici becomes powerful in Florence.source

15th century

  • 1412January 16 – The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy.source
  • 1429February – Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, founder of the Medici dynasty of Florence (born c. 1360)source
  • 1494November 9 – The Medici Bank becomes insolvent and the House of Medici is expelled from Florence.source

16th century

  • 1512The Florentine Republic begins to be dismantled, and the Medici Family comes back into power.source
  • 1513Niccolò Machiavelli is suspected of trying to overthrow the House of Medici and is arrested and tortured. He is soon after released and moves to his farm in San Casciano, and writes The Prince.source
  • 1527May 16 – In Florence, the Piagnon, a group devoted to the memory of Girolamo Savonarola, drive out the Medici for a second time, re-establishing the Republic of Florence until 1530.source
  • 1530August 3 – Battle of Gavinana: Florence is captured by Spanish troops under Prince Philibert of Chalon (who is killed in the action). The Piagnon (followers of the memory of Girolamo Savonarola) are overthrown, ending the Siege of Florence, and the Medici are restored, in the person of the Pope's nephew Alessandro de' Medici.source

17th century

  • 1700An inventory made for the House of Medici of Florence is the first documentary evidence for a piano, invented by their instrument keeper Bartolomeo Cristofori.source

18th century

  • 1718April 4 – Great Britain, France and the Dutch Republic agree on the phasing out of the authority of the House of Medici over the semi-independent Grand Duchy of Tuscany by declaring that Gian Gastone de' Medici will be the last of the Medici family to rule the Italian duchy and that Spain's House of Borbón will eventually control the Tuscan monarchy. Don Carlos of Spain, the two-year old son of King Philip V, is designated as the eventual heir, despite the objections of the 75-year old Grand Duke, Cosimo III de' Medici.source
  • 1723October 31 – Gian Gastone de' Medici becomes the new Grand Duke of Tuscany upon the death of his father Cosimo III de' Medici; he will be the state's last ruler from the House of Medici. During his reign, the state treasury is depleted and Tuscany becomes one of the poorest nations in Europe.source
  • 1737July 9 – The direct male line of the Medici family becomes extinct, with the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.source

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