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=**Leonardo da Vinci's Life**=

1452 - Leonardo da Vinci is born on April 15, in Vinci.

1457 - Leonardo moves to his father's home in Vinci at the age of five.

1460 - Leonardo moves to Florence with his father.

1467 - Leonardo is apprenticed to Andrea del Verrocchi, in Florence.

1472 - Leonardo becomes a member of the painter's guild in Florence.

1473 - Leonardo draws a landscape on the Feast of Santa Maria delle Neve.

1476 - Leonardo is charged with sodomy on April 9, but is released from the charges on June 16.

1477 - Leonardo paints a part of the //Annunciation to the Virgin//.

1478 - Leonardo records in his notebooks that he has begun working on "two Virgin Marys." He also paints the //Portrait of Ginevra de Benci//.

1481 - Leonardo is comissioned to paint the //Adoration of the Magi//.

1482 - Leonardo moves from Florence to Milan, and enters the patronage of Ludovico Sforza.

1483 - Leonardo recieves a comission to paint the //Virgin of the Rocks//.

1485 - Leonardo paints //Lady with an Ermine//.

1489 - Leonardo studies anatomy.

1490 - Leonardo begins to work on a bronze horse for his patron Ludovico Sforza, as well as a book on landscape and hydraulic works, but never finishes.

1493 - Leonardo's mother becomes a member of his household.

1495 - Leonardo begins painting the //Last Supper// in the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie.

1496 - Leonardo illustrates mathematician Fra Luca Pacioli's //De devina proportione//.

1498 - Leonardo decorates the walls and ceiling of the Sala delle Asse. He also attempts planning a flying machine.

1499 - Leonardo leaves Milan after the French invasion.

1500 - Leonardo and Pacioli go to Mantua, then Leonardo continues alone to Florence. In Mantua, he draws the //Portrait in Profile of Isabelle d'Este//. In Florence, he paints the //Virgin and Child with Saint Anne//.

1502 - Leonardo becomes Cesare Borgia's military, and travels around the Romagna inspecting fortifications.

1503 - In Florence again, Leonardo begins the //Battle of Anghiari//. Also, he trys to divert the Arno River away from Pisa in order to defeat Pisa in war.

1504 - Leonardo's father dies on July 9.

1505 - Leonardo attempts a second time to build a flying machine, begins sketches for the //Mona Lisa//, and gives up painting the //Battle of Anghiari//.

1506 - In May, Leonardo is summoned to Milan by Charles d'Amboise, the French governor.

1507 - Leonardo is appointed Louis XII's painter and engineer. He paints a second version of the //Virgin on the Rocks//, meets his beautiful assistant Francesco Melzi, and travels yet again to Florance pursuing a lawsuit against his brothers concerning his inheritance from his deceased uncle.

1508 - Leonardo returns to Milan and spends a long period studying anatomy, town-planning, optics, and hydraulic engineering.

1513 - Leonardo moves to Rome, and while living in the Vatican studies the properties of mirrors.

1515 - Leonardo paints //John the Baptist// and constructs a mechanical lion for the coronation of the new king of France, Francis I.

1516 - Leonardo permanently leaves Italy for France, where he serves Francis I at court in Amboise.

1519 - Leonardo dies on May 2 at Cloux France, and is buried in the Church of St. Valentine at Amboise.