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440
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Completion of Santa Maria Maggiore
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590
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Vision on the Ponte Sant'Angelo
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609
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The Pantheon is the first pagan temple in Rome to be Christianized
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610
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Usurping Roman emperor Phocas is deposed and tortured to death
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805
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Restoration of Santa Sabina under Pope Leo III (795-816).
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824
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The archpresbyter Eugenius II makes some improvements to Santa Sabina in Rome, adding the marble furniture of the chancel and enshrining the relics of three saints in the high altar: Alexander, Theodolus and Eventius.
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1084
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Pope rescued from siege at Castel Sant'Angelo
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18 Jun 1155
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Frederick Barbarossa Crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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1222
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Santa Sabina is given to the newly-created Dominican Order, in whose care it remains today.
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1378
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End of the Avignon Papacy
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1556
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Roman Jews Forced into Ghetto
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18 Feb 1564
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Death of Michelangelo
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7 May 1574
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Birth of Pope Innocent X
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1585
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Fontana creates Sistine Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore
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1585
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Major remodeling of Santa Sabina's interior in the Renaissance style under Pope Sixtus V (1585-90).
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1611
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Ponzio creates the Borghese Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore
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1633
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Galileo condemned for heresy in Rome
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1647
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Pope Innocent X (r. 1644-55) commissions a monumental fountain to support the ancient obelisk he moved from the Circus of Maxentius to the Piazza Navona. He excludes the well-known sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini from his request for designs, but Bernini cr
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1648
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Pope Innocent X grants the commission for the Fountain of the Four Rivers in the Piazza Navona to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, after being shown the artist's designs by Bernini's nephew.
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2 Aug 1667
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Death of Francesco Borromini
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28 Nov 1680
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Death of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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1850
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The Milvian Bridge is restored by Pope Pius IX.
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1870
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Roman Jews Granted Citizenship
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1901
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Great Synagogue of Rome Constructed
