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| 1851 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, based on a play by Victor Hugo, is a huge success at its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1853 |
| | | Just six weeks after the success of Il Trovatore, Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata is a disaster at its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1866 |
| | | Austrian rule ends in the Venetian territories, which now join the new kingdom of Italy | |
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| 1880 |
| | | On their honeymoon in Venice, George Eliot's husband develops depression and throws himself, or falls, from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal | |
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| 1913 |
| | | German author Thomas Mann publishes the novella Death in Venice | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Charlie Chaplin introduces his most famous character, the little tramp, in Kid Auto Races at Venice | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Charlie Chaplin makes The Tramp, giving prominence to the famous character he launched the previous year in Kid Auto Races at Venice | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Benito Mussolini plays host in Venice to Adolf Hitler, the newcomer among European dictators | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The Rake's Progress, with music by Igor Stravinsky and libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, has its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1958 |
| | | John Cranko's version of Romeo and Juliet, to Prokofiev's score, is premiered by La Scala Ballet in Venice | |
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