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 century CE – Saena Julia founded by Romans.
• 1205 – Palazzo Tolomei built (approximate date).[1]
• 1240 – Studium Senese established.
• 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.[2]
• 1328 – Famine.[3]
• 1348
  • Black Death plague.
  • Torre del Mangia built.
• 1360 – Public clock installed.[4]

15th century

• 1419 - Fonte Gaia built.
• 1423 - Council of Siena begins.
• 1438 - Loggia della Mercanzia built (approximate date).[5]
• 1459 – Palazzo Marsili rebuilt.[5]
• 1462 – Loggia del Papa erected.[5]
• 1463 – Palazzo Piccolomini-delle Papesse built.[5]
• 1472
  • Monte dei Paschi di Siena founded.
  • Palazzo Spannocchi built (approximate date).
• 1484 – Printing press in operation.
• 1490 – Basilica dell'Osservanza built (approximate date).
• 1495
  • Palazzo delle Papesse completed (approximate date).
  • Piccolomini Library built (approximate date).[5]

16th–18th centuries

Map of Siena, 1640

• 1504 – Santo Spirito renovated.
• 1506 – Palazzo Chigi-Saracini renovated.
• 1508 – Palazzo del Magnifico built.[5]
• 1520 – Palazzo Bichi built (approximate date).[5]
• 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.
• 1604 – Porta Camollia rebuilt.[5]
• 1613 – San Martino renovated.
• 1656 – Palio di Siena horse race begins.
• 1691 – Accademia dei Fisiocritici founded.[6]
• 1729 – Consolidation of districts; elimination of contrade Gallo, Leone, Orso, Quercia, Spadaforte, and Vipera.

19th century

• 1816 – Fine Arts Institution founded.[7]
• 1848 – Palazzo Buonsignori restored.[5]
• 1854 – Palazzo del Capitano restored.[5]
• 1856 – Orto Botanico dell'Università di Siena laid out.
• 1858 – Municipal Archivio instituted.[8]
• 1865 – Empoli-Siena railway begins operating.
• 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.[7]
• 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
• List of Governors of Siena
• List of mayors of Siena
• Republic of Siena, 11th–16th centuries
• Archivio di Stato di 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 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

References

1. Hastings 1902.
2. Gardner 1909.
3. Schevill 1909.
4. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). "The First Public Clocks". History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
5. Baedeker 1909.
6. "La Storia dell'Accademia". Accademia dei Fisiocritici Onlus. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
7. Britannica 1910.
8. Heywood 1905.
9. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899 – via HathiTrust.
10. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913.
11. "(Comune: Siena)". Anagrafe delle biblioteche italiane (Registry of Italian Libraries) (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
12. "Forty-three museums scattered throughout the Province of Siena are part of the Fondazione Musei Senesi". Siena: Fondazione Musei Senesi. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
13. "Our history". Aeroporto di Siena. Retrieved August 13, 2012.

Further reading

• Josiah Conder (1834), "Siena", Italy, The Modern Traveller, 33, London: J.Duncan
• Gilbert Hastings (1902), Siena: its architecture and art, London: De La More Press, OCLC 3571094, OL 7173091M
• William Heywood; Lucy Olcott (1905), Guide to Siena: History and Art (3rd ed.), Siena: E. Torrini, OCLC 6980800, OL 22881481M
• "Siena", Central Italy and Rome: Handbook for Travellers (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 423237
• Edmund Garratt Gardner (1909), The story of Siena and San Gimignano, Mediaeval Towns (3rd ed.), London: J.M. Dent & Co., OL 23342474M
• Ferdinand Schevill (1909), Siena: the story of a mediaeval commune, New York: Scribner, OL 7186295M
• "Siena", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: New York : Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive