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| 1470 |
| | | The first Italian printing press is set up in Venice, which soon rivals Germany for the quality of its printing | |
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| c. 1475 |
| | | Giovanni Bellini becomes the key figure in the development of the Renaissance style in Venice | |
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| 1489 |
| | | Venice's annexation of Cyprus completes a useful chain of islands stretching to the eastern Mediterranean | |
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| c. 1495 |
| | | The type faces known as roman and italic are created in Venice by the printers Nicolas Jenson and Aldus Manutius | |
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| 1510 |
| | | Giorgione and Titian introduce the richness of colour which characterizes the high Renaissance style in Venice | |
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| 1510 |
| | | The painter Giorgione dies after a short but extremely influential life in Venice | |
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| 1516 |
| | | The original ghetto is established as a district to which the Jews of Venice are confined | |
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| 1571 |
| | | Spanish and Venetian galleys defeat the Turks in the battle of Lepanto | |
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| 1573 |
| | | Venice cedes the island of Cyprus to the Turks, in spite of the Christian victory at Lepanto two years earlier | |
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| 1587 |
| | | Venice opens the first modern bank (the Banco della Piazza di Rialto) for safe deposits and credit transfers | |
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