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Pope Pius VI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799

8 dated entries naming Pope Pius VI, drawn from 8 separate years between 1717 CE and 1800 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.

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18th century

  • 1717December 27 – Pope Pius VI, born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, Italian pontiff (d. 1799)source
  • 1775February 15 – Pope Pius VI succeeds Pope Clement XIV as the 250th pope.source
  • 1782July – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, receives a visit from Pope Pius VI.source
  • 1789November 6 – Pope Pius VI creates the first diocese in the United States at Baltimore, and appoints John Carroll the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.source
  • 1796June 23 – Napoleon Bonaparte seizes the Papal States, which become part of the revolutionary Cisalpine Republic. Pope Pius VI signs the Armistice of Bologna, and is forced to contribute (34 million francs).source
  • 1797February 19 – Treaty of Tolentino: Pope Pius VI signs a peace treaty with Revolutionary France. He is forced to deliver works of art, treasures, territory, the Comtat Venaissin, and 30 million francs.source
  • 1799August 29 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)source
  • 1800March 14 – Papal conclave, 1799–1800: cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti succeeds Pius VI as Pius VII, the 251st pope. He is crowned on March 21, in Venice.source

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