A timeline that centers in and around the Serene Republic of Venice and written by Franciscus Caesar.

Beginning in the year 1492, the Serene Republic - along with the Ottoman Empire - decides to offer the expelled populations from the Spanish Inquisition refuge from persecution. From this point onward, the decisions of the Venetian Doges and the machinations of the republic's citizens leads to the nation scrambling to gain control of it's trade with the wider world, slowly diverging world history as we know it.

It can be read in the forum here.

1492, Intro

Prologue: New Arrivals

Part 1, The Italian War: 1494-1498

Part 2, 1499, the Year of Two Wars

Part 3, The Renaissance Man

Part 4, Aiuto

Part 5, The First Light of the Dawn

Part 6, The Bloodied Boot

Part 7, Three Popes and a Stalemate

Part 8, An End to War, Ptolemy Lives Again

Part 9, Quick Work of the Empire.

Part 10, Cambrai

Part 11, Goliaths fall, Davids Succeed.

map #1, map of Italy circa 1508 and the partition plan of the League of Cambrai

Part 12, The Republic is Secure, the Wealthy Celebrate

Part 13, The Great Handshake: St. Mark and Osman

Part 14, Mare Hadriaticum; Mare Nostrum

Part 15, As Italy Calms, the East Rages

Part 16, Desperate Times…

Part 17, Desperate Measures, in the Name of San Marco

Part 18, The Lion and the Pearl

Part 19, Preparations Begin

Part 20, In the Lands of Prester John

Part 21, Luther

Part 22, African Army, African Drink

Part 23, Foundations

footnote 1#, the final placement of the Gran Cavallo

Part 24: All That Glitters Isn’t Gold.

Part 25, So It Begins

footnote 2#, Income Statement of the Serene Republic, year 1519

Part 26, It is Baptized

Part 27, Trouble in Spain

Part 28, In the Orient’s Reach

Part 29, Word from Pechino

Part 30, Housekeeping

map 2#, Italy and the Indian Ocean, year 1521

Part 31, La Masacre

La Serenissima Eterna by Faeelin

Early Modern Timelines