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1452 - Birth of Leonardo
1457 - Leonardo listed in tax assessment
1462 - Leonardo's father employed by Cosimo de' Medici
1464 - Death of Cosimo de’ Medici
1469 - Leonardo moves to Florence
1471 - Pope Sixtus IV is elected
1472 - Leonardo appears on the book of the “Company of St. Luke”
1473 - Leonardo contributes to Tobias and the Angel
1474 - Leonardo paints the Annunciation
1475 - Leonardo paints the Madonna and Child with a Carnation
1476 - Leonardo in Verrocchio's workshop
1478 - Leonardo's first commission recorded
1480 - Leonardo paints the Benois Madonna and St. Jerome
1481/82 - Leonardo in the service of Ludovico Sforza
1483 - Leonardo signs the contract for the Virgin of the Rocks
1485 - Leonardo starts painting the unfinished Musician
1486 - Vitruvius's De Architectura is published
1487 - Leonardo designs a domed crossing tower for Milan Cathedral
1488 - Leonardo receives payment for the crossing tower of Milan Cathedral
1489 - Leonardo is working on the Sforza horse
1490 - Leonardo paints the Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani
1492 - Leonardo travels to Lombardy
1493 - Leonardo casts model of Sforza horse
1494 - King Charles VIII invades Italy
1495 - Leonardo consults on the building of the Sala del Gran Consiglio, Florence
1496 - Leonardo paints La Belle Ferroniere
1497 - Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape
1498 - The Last Supper and the model for the Sforza horse are completed
1499 - Milan under French control
1500 - Leonardo is working for the Venetian Republic
1501 - Leonardo is working on the Madonna of the Yarnwinder
1502 - Leonardo in the service of Cesare Borgia
1503 - Leonardo begins the Mona Lisa
1504 - Leonardo is paid for the Battle of Anghiari work
1505 - Leonardo begins the Codex Forster I
1506 - Dispute over the price of the Virgin of the Rocks
1507 - Leonardo meets Francesco Melzi
1508 - Leonardo returns to Milan
1509 - De Divina Proportione is published in Venice
1510 - Leonardo is paid by the French state
1511 - Leonardo leaves Milan
1512 - The French withdraw from Italy
1513 - Leonardo moves to Rome
1514 - Leonardo works as engineer for Giuliano de’ Medici
1515 - French King Francis I reoccupies Milan
1516 - Leonardo goes to France
1518 - Leonardo goes to the castle of Cloux at Amboise
1519 - Leonardo dies aged 67
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