A Companion to Sardinian History, 500–1500

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1637: French invasion of Oristiano, during the Thirty Year War, aggravates the economic
and social conditions of the island
1638: Population drops 25% causing a collapse in agricultural production
1640: Spain declares financial crisis
1650: The Great Plague
1657: Plague leaves Sardinia with half of its population and an economic crisis
May 1668: Viceroy dissolved the parliamentary assembly
1669–1671: First death sentences for Sardinian nobles
1680–1681: Another famine
1698: Last Sardinian parliament
1700: Charles II dies heirless, putting an end to the government
1708: The Piedmontese Savoy family become kings of Sardinia
1714: Spain loses Sardinia
1718: Treaty of London brings the island under the House of Savoy
1836: End of feudalism in Sardinia
1861–1864 Unification of Italy and the birth of the realm of Italy


Timeline of Popes (Mentioned Above)


540–604: Gregory the Great’s term as pope
847–855: Leo IV’s term as pope
1061–1073: Alexander II’s term as pope
1073–1085: Gregory VII’s term as pope
1086–1088: Victor III’s term as pope
1088–1099: Urban II’s term as pope
1130–1144: Innocent II’s term as pope
1159–1181: Alexander III’s term as pope
1181–1188: Lucius III’s term as pope
1188–1191: Clement III’s term as pope
1191–1198: Celestine III’s term as pope
1198–1216: Innocent III’s term as pope
1216–1227: Honorius III’s term as pope
1227–1242: Gregory IX’s term as pope
1243–1254: Innocent IV’s term as pope
1294–1304: Boniface VII’s term as pope
1370–1378: Gregory XI’s term as pope
1378–1394: Urban VI’s term as pope
1394–1429: Benedict XIII’s term as pope
1559–1572: Pius V’s term as pope

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