Timeline of Siena

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.

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Prior to 15th century

• 1st C. CE – Saena Julia founded by Romans.
• 1205 – Palazzo Tolomei built (approximate date).^[1]
• 1233 - "The people again rose against the nobles in the hope of ousting them entirely from office."^[2]
• 1240 – University of Siena established.^[2]
• 1248 - Plague.^[2]
• 1255
  • Gran Tavola bank founded.
  • Basilica of San Francesco built.
• 1260 – Battle of Montaperti.
• 1263 – Siena Cathedral built.
• 1265 – Basilica of San Domenico built.
• 1287 – Noveschi in power.
• 1308 – Palazzo Pubblico built.^[3]
• 1328 – Famine.^[4]
• 1348
  • Black Death plague.
  • Torre del Mangia built.^[2]
• 1349 - Piazza del Campo paved in fishbone-patterned red brick.^[2]
• 1355 - Arrival of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor in Siena
• 1360 – Public clock installed.^[5]

15th century

• 1419 - Fonte Gaia built.
• 1423 - Council of Siena begins.
• 1438 - Loggia della Mercanzia built (approximate date).^[6]
• 1459 – Palazzo Marsili rebuilt.^[6]
• 1462 – Loggia del Papa erected.^[6]
• 1463 – Palazzo Piccolomini-delle Papesse built.^[6]
• 1472
  • Monte dei Paschi di Siena founded.
  • Palazzo Spannocchi built (approximate date).
• 1478 - The Pazzi conspiracy led to war a war lasting to 1480.^[2]
• 1482 & 1483 - Riots.^[2]
• 1484 – Printing press in operation.
• 1490 – Basilica dell'Osservanza built (approximate date).
• 1495
  • Palazzo delle Papesse completed (approximate date).
  • Piccolomini Library built (approximate date).^[6]

16th–18th centuries

Map of Siena, 1640

• 1504 – Santo Spirito renovated.
• 1506 – Palazzo Chigi-Saracini renovated.
• 1508 – Palazzo del Magnifico built.^[6]
• 1520 – Palazzo Bichi built (approximate date).^[6]
• 1527 – Accademia degli Intronati founded (approximate date).
• 1533 – Santa Maria dei Servi consecrated.
• 1554 – Battle of Marciano.
• 1555 – Republic of Siena surrenders to Spain; Siena ceded to Duchy of Florence.^[2]
• 1604 – Porta Camollia rebuilt.^[6]
• 1613 – San Martino renovated.
• 1656 – Palio di Siena horse race begins.^[2]
• 1691 – Accademia dei Fisiocritici founded.^[7]
• 1729 – Consolidation of districts; elimination of contrade Gallo, Leone, Orso, Quercia, Spadaforte, and Vipera.

19th century

• 1816
  • Fine Arts Institution founded.^[2]
  • The natural history museum of the Royal Academy of the Physiocritics founded.^[2]
• 1848 – Palazzo Buonsignori restored.^[6]
• 1854 – Palazzo del Capitano restored.^[6]
• 1856 – Orto Botanico dell'Università di Siena laid out.
• 1858 – Municipal Archives established.^[8][2]
• 1865 – Empoli-Siena railway begins operating.^{[citation needed]}
• 1866 – Cemetery della Misericordia established.
• 1871 – Mens Sana in Corpore Sano 1871 formed.
• 1897 – Population: 30,468.^[9]

20th century

Allied bombing of Nazi railyard, Siena, c. 1944

• 1901 – Population: 25,539.^[2]
• 1904 – Società Studio e Divertimento formed.
• 1911 – Population: 41,673.^[10]
• 1923 – Stadio Artemio Franchi – Montepaschi Arena opens.
• 1932
  • Accademia Musicale Chigiana founded.
  • Pinacoteca Nazionale inaugurated.
• 1935 – Siena railway station opens.
• 1944 – Bombing by Allies.
• 1959 – Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati (library) active.^[11]
• 1976 – Palasport Mens Sana arena opens.
• 1995 – Santa Maria della Scala museum opens.

21st century

Siena, 2009

• 2003
  • Fondazione Musei Senesi established.^[12]
  • Siena–Ampugnano Airport renovated.^[13]

See also

• Siena history
• History of Siena (it)
• List of governors of Siena
• List of mayors of Siena
• Republic of Siena, 11th–16th centuries
• State Archives of Siena (state archives)

Other cities in the macroregion of Central Italy:^(it)

• Timeline of Ancona, Marche region
• Timeline of Arezzo, Tuscany region
• Timeline of Florence, Tuscany
• Timeline of Grosseto, Tuscany
• Timeline of Livorno, Tuscany
• Timeline of Lucca, Tuscany
• Timeline of Perugia, Umbria region
• Timeline of Pisa, Tuscany
• Timeline of Pistoia, Tuscany
• Timeline of Prato, Tuscany
• Timeline of Rome, Lazio region