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Top 10 Top 10 Events in the Venetian Republic

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  • 1. Venice founded on 25 April (St Mark’s Day, AD 421)
  • 2. First doge, Paoluccio Anafesto, elected (697)
  • 3. St Mark’s body brought to Venice (828)
  • 4. Ruthless siege of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) during Fourth Crusade under Doge Enrico Dandolo (1204)
  • 5. Venice loses 60 per cent of its population to the Black Death (1348)
  • 6. Doge Marin Falier decapitated for conspiracy (1355)
  • 7. Genoese defeated at Battle of Chioggia, leaving Venice to reign over the Adriatic and Mediterranean (1381)
  • 8. Victory over Turks at Battle of Lepanto (1571)
  • 9. After 25 years of war, Crete is lost to the Turks (1669)
  • 10. Napoleon invades the Veneto, bringing about the fall of the Venetian Republic (1797)
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