By November 3, the city of Milan itself had surrendered, although the Austrian governor, Count Wirich Philipp von Daun, still held the fortress.

In 1328 it finally surrendered to Azzone Visconti, and thereafter shared the political fortunes of Milan.

He was in that No. 5 shirt as Leeds surrendered the FA Cup to Sunderland in the final ; and then switched back to the left wing and the No. 11 shirt for the European Cup Winners Cup final a few days later in Greece, which Leeds lost to A. C. Milan.

Eugène surrendered on April 23, and was exiled to Bavaria by the Austrians, who occupied Milan on April 28.

On April 29, 1945, Visconti surrendered to communist partisans near Malpensa airfield, Milan, only after he was assured that none of the air and ground personnel of his unit would be killed in retaliatory attacks.

* The Franks cross the Rhine, the Alamanni reach Milan.

Ambrose was the Governor of Aemilia-Liguria in northern Italy until 374 when he became the Bishop of Milan.

" When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday ; when I am at Milan, I do not.

It is against this background that two religious orders or congregations, one of men and one of women, when founded in the Milan area during the 13th and 15th centuries, took Saint Ambrose as their patron and hence adopted his name.

Zoff's career got off to an inauspicious start, when at the age of fourteen he had trials with Inter Milan and Juventus F. C., but was rejected due to a lack of height.

He also held the records for the oldest Serie A player and most Serie A appearances ( 570 matches ) for more than 20 years, until the season 2005 – 06 when the record was broken by S. S. Lazio goalkeeper Marco Ballotta and A. C. Milan defender Paolo Maldini respectively.

That did not come to the Sforza Dukes until 1494, when Emperor Maximilian formally invested Francesco's son, Lodovico ( also known as Ludovico Sforza ), as Duke of Milan.

* Players still living who, though past their best in 1950, were recognised as having been world class when at their peak: Ossip Bernstein, Oldřich Duras, Ernst Grünfeld, Borislav Kostić, Grigory Levenfish, Géza Maróczy, Jacques Mieses, Viacheslav Ragozin, Akiba Rubinstein, Friedrich Sämisch, Savielly Tartakower, and Milan Vidmar.

Verdi went to Milan when he was twenty to continue his studies.

reports that, when the Va, pensiero chorus was sung in Milan, then belonging to the large part of Italy under Austrian domination, the audience, responding with nationalistic fervor to the exiled slaves ' lament for their lost homeland, demanded an encore of the piece.

The most famous example occurred in 1954, when Milan ( enrollment 161 ) defeated Muncie Central ( enrollment over 1, 600 ) to win the State title.

This style, which had been in use since 1554, was replaced when Philip inherited the Spanish Crown in 1556 with " Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God King and Queen of England, Spain, France, both the Sicilies, Jerusalem and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Burgundy, Milan and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol ".

Many Italian artists came to Poland with Bona Sforza of Milan, when she married King Zygmunt I of Poland in 1518.

The first known documented tarot cards were created between 1430 and 1450 in Milan, Ferrara and Bologna in northern Italy when additional trump cards with allegorical illustrations were added to the common four-suit pack.

According to the commentators, Virgil received his first education when he was five years old and he later went to Cremona, Milan, and finally Rome to study rhetoric, medicine, and astronomy, which he soon abandoned for philosophy.

* May 7 – May 9 – Bava-Beccaris massacre: Hundreds of demonstrators are killed when General Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris orders troops to fire on a rally in Milan, Italy ( in 1900, King Umberto I of Italy is killed in an act of vengeance for his praise of the shooting ).

However, the Republic collapsed when in 1450, Milan was conquered by Francesco Sforza, of the House of Sforza, which made Milan one of the leading cities of the Italian Renaissance.

The economic boom was however overshadowed in the late 1960s and early 1970s during the so-called Years of Lead, when Milan witnessed an unprecedented wave of street violence, labour strikes and political terrorism.

Espresso machines were introduced at the beginning of the 20th century when Luigi Bezzera of Milan filed the first patent in 1901., and although the first generations of machines certainly did not make espresso the way we define it today, coffee making in Cafés changed in the first decades of the 20th century.

Writing in Rome and Milan in addition to Naples, Donizetti achieved some popular success in the 1820s ( although critics were often unimpressed ), but was not well known internationally until 1830, when his Anna Bolena was premiered in Milan.

The bank was closed in 1796 but re-opened in 1804, when Milan was capital of the Napoleonic Italian Republic, as the Monte Napoleone: from this the street derived its current name.

Another legend states that when Barbarossa was in the process of seizing Milan in 1158, his wife, the Empress Beatrice, was taken captive by the enraged Milanese and forced to ride through the city on a donkey in a humiliating manner.

This process reached its apex in the 12th and 13th centuries, when different Lombard Leagues formed by allied cities of Lombardy, usually led by Milan, managed to defeat the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick I, at Legnano, and his grandson Frederick II, at Parma.

According to a narrative of Landulphus Senior, the eleventh-century chronicler of Milan, Charlemagne attempted to abolish the Ambrosian Rite, as he or his father, Pepin the Short, had abolished the Gallican Rite in France, in favour of a Gallicanized Roman Rite.

After initial successes and having conquered large parts of the territory of Milan, they were utterly defeated by a French army in the Battle of Marignano in 1515, which put an end to military territorial interventions of the confederation, mercenary services under the flags of foreign armies excepted.

The Prague Spring inspired music and literature such as the work of Václav Havel, Karel Husa, Karel Kryl, and Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Milan Kundera set his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being during the Prague Spring.

More recent authors who have used damnatio memoriae as a plot device include Milan Kundera in his 1979 novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, R. A. Salvatore in the 1990 novel Homeland, Lois Lowry in her 1993 novel The Giver ( a version in which the damned name is never given to any new baby ever again ), and Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson in their 1999 Prelude to Dune trilogy.

But he laboriously revised The Betrothed in Tuscan-Italian, and in 1840 republished it in that form, with a historical essay, Storia della colonna infame, on details of the 17th century plague in Milan so important in the novel.

* Von Bach, a fictional superpowered character modeled after Milan Fras, appears in the DC comics graphic novel Kingdom Come, by Alex Ross and Mark Waid.

Milan Kundera, in a 2007 article in The New Yorker, wrote: "( Rabelais ) is, along with Cervantes, the founder of an entire art, the art of the novel.

In 2006, award winning novelist John Green wrote a novel titled An Abundance of Katherines which took place mainly in Milan, Tennessee.

Umberto Eco's novel Baudolino ( Milan: Bompiani, 2000.

* Immortality ( novel ), a 1990 novel by Milan Kundera

They also tended to present films taken from Czech literature, including Jaromil Jireš ' adaptation of Milan Kundera's anti-Communist novel The Joke ( Žert 1969 ).

* Identity ( novel ), by Milan Kundera

* In the 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, the bowler is a vital plot device.

While in prison writing materials were denied him, but he managed to write on rags with a tooth-pick and candle smoke, and thus composed the novel Margherita Pusterla ( Milan, 1838 ).

* The concept is also the central theme of the novel Passenger by Billy Cowie ( published by Old Street Publishing 2008 ) where the main character Milan discovers his sister Roma is embedded in himself and spends the remainder of the book attempting to communicate with her.

In 1535, when Francesco II Sforza ( the last Duke of Milan ) died, there started for Lombardy and for the lands of the Lake of Lario two centuries of onerous Spanish rule ( the period about which the novel The Betrothed was written by Alessandro Manzoni ).

The Unbearable Lightness of Being () is a 1984 existential novel by Milan Kundera, about two men, two women, a dog and their lives in the Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history in 1968.

In 1988, Kaufman was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for The Unbearable Lightness of Being, based on the novel by Milan Kundera.

Defined by Toni Morrison as " a global novel ", the book sets itself in the wide frame of Western and post-colonial culture, through the multilingualism of its characters, the mixture of East and West and the great number of references that span from Greek mythology, European philosophy and contemporaries such as Milan Kundera and the stars of rock ' n roll.

Thirlwell is the author of two novels, Politics ( 2003 ) and The Escape ( 2009 ) described by Milan Kundera as " a novel where the humour is melancholic, the melancholy mischievous, and the talent startling.

* Tereza, from Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being

* Used by the forces of Skye in the Mechwarrior novel, Flight of the Falcon by Victor Milan.