When Florence shook off the papal yoke in 1527, Alamanni returned, and took a prominent part in the management of the affairs of the republic.

When in Florence Leonardo and Michelangelo were each given a commission by Gonfaloniere Piero Soderini to decorate a wall in the “ Hall of Five Hundred ”.

When, in 1887, the French and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce, in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the Petite Messe Solennelle, " the last musical composition by Rossini ", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and " demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro ," of singing it herself in her " dear and beloved homeland ".

When in 1489, Lorenzo de ' Medici, de facto ruler of Florence, asked Ghirlandaio for his two best pupils, Ghirlandaio sent Michelangelo and Francesco Granacci.

When Cosimo was exiled from Florence, Donatello went to Rome, remaining until 1433.

When, on his return to Rome, he heard of Benedict X's election, he decided to oppose it, and obtained the support of the Duke of Lorraine-Tuscany and Empress Agnes for the election of Gerhard of Burgundy, Bishop of Florence, as Pope instead.

When ambassadors from Emperor Zara Yaqob attended the Council of Florence in 1441, they were confused when council prelates insisted on referring to their monarch as Prester John.

When the bubonic plague struck Florence in 1400, Ghiberti emigrated to Rimini, where he assisted in the completion of wall frescoes of the castle of Carlo I Malatesta.

* " When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose " w. Marion Gillespie m. Florence Methuen

When disc jockeys across the nation began to play the track from the album in the fall of 1967 and demanded its release as a single, Florence Greenberg, President of Scepter Records, complied and " I Say a Little Prayer " became Warwick's biggest US hit to that point, reaching # 4 on the U. S. and Canadian Charts and # 8 on the R & B Charts.

When the prudish government of Louis-Philippe refused to purchase it, Count Anatole Demidoff bought it and took it to his palazzo in Florence.

When World War I broke out in Europe in 1914, Canada immediately joined the war, and as a result, several of Florence La Badie ’ s young male friends and relatives back home in Montreal were immediately shipped overseas.

When he died, he was one of the richest men in Florence.

When Freddie accuses Florence of conspiring against him, she decides to leave him (" Florence Quits " / " Nobody's Side ").

" When Hong Kong ordained two further women priests in 1971 ( Joyce Bennett and Jane Hwang ), Florence Li Tim-Oi was officially recognised as a priest by the diocese.

When detailing the construction of the Florence Cathedral and the artist Giotto di Bondone as the designer of the new bell tower, Villani called him " the most sovereign master of painting in his time.

However, the early 20th century historian Philip Wicksteed stated of Villani, " When dealing with his own times, and with events immediately connected with Florence, he is a trustworthy witness, but minute accuracy is never his strong point ; and in dealing with distant times and places he is hopelessly unreliable.

Members of the Dixie Club, Florence State Normal College, 1909. When the Methodist Church deeded Florence Wesleyan to the State of Alabama in 1872, the institution became the State Normal School at Florence, the first state-supported teachers college south of the Ohio River.

When he was 11 years, he had the opportunity to touch the holy festival of the patron of a small town near Florence.

When he died he was buried in the church of the Santa Croce at Florence by the side of Michelangelo.

* When Selma Diamond, the first female bailiff, died after two seasons, Florence Halop played a replacement character, only to die one season later.

When his mother died, Confucius ( aged 23 ) is reported to have mourned for three years as was the tradition.

When the Azzuri crashed out to France in the 1986 tournament and Scirea retired, the mantle was passed to Baresi who returned to the side, a responsibility that become more poignant when Scirea was killed in a car accident aged 36, only months before Italy was to host the World Cup.

When Scotland finally paid the ransom in 1424, James, aged 32, returned with his English bride determined to assert this authority.

When he was aged 10, his family scraped together the money to send him to Midland District Grammar School in Kingston.

When her father died in November 1810 ( aged 44 ) he had been suffering from tuberculosis and injuries he suffered from a fall off a cliff — he left the family with no savings and a significant amount of debt, forcing them to apply for parish relief.

When John was aged, he trained Polycarp who later became Bishop of Smyrna.

When John was aged, he trained Polycarp who later became Bishop of Smyrna.

When his father died, both Daniel ( aged 16 ) and his younger brother Gottfried Chodowiecki went to live with their uncle in Berlin, who offered to educate them, and where Daniel received an artistic training with the painter Haid in Augsburg.

When Winfield Scott Stratton died on 14 September 1902, he left the bulk of his estate for the establishment of the Myron Stratton Home, for " the aged poor and dependent children ;" named for his father Myron Stratton.

When fully aged ( five months to a year ) it tends to have small cracks which impart a slightly grainy mouthfeel.

When Frodo and the other Hobbits stopped in Rivendell on their quest to destroy the Ring, Bilbo was still alive but now visibly aged, the years having caught up with him after he surrendered the Ring.

When she dies in 1914, aged only 42, Edith has to take over all of Ada's chores and duties (" Your mother's dead.

When Cornelius died in 1880, aged 90, he was a very respected family man but over time he has been honored by the citizens of Duckburg as the " father " of the city.

When Haig was 10, his father, aged 38, died of cancer.

When he was aged five or six, his family moved to a plantation in St. George, a parish on Winyah Bay.

When Hélène's sister, Colette de Chambes, was believed to have been poisoned by her aged husband Louis d ' Amboise, Viscount of Thouars, in a fit of jealousy over her affair with Charles de Valois, Louis XI's brother, the king had confiscated most of his properties.

When a port is described as tawny, without an indication of age, it is a basic blend of wood aged port that has spent at least two years in barrels.

When he learned, aged 19, she had committed suicide, he admitted in later life that he had not grieved long for her.

When Rome waged a Third Punic War on Carthage 70 years later, the Carthaginians had little power, and could not even defeat the by-then very aged Masinissa in Africa.

When Mesrine and company drove back along the track, two forest rangers, Médéric Cote, aged 62, and Ernest Saint-Pierre, aged 50, were waiting.

When Elizabeth's only brother Gilbert, 7th Earl of Hertford was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 aged only 23 and leaving no surviving issue, his property was equally divided between his three full sisters, Elizabeth, Eleanor and Margaret.

When he was aged nineteen, she married him, and retained great influence over court and military.

When shipments of hard cheese from Europe were subsequently interrupted as World War I intensified, he rediscovered the stored Jack, which had become a well-aged hard cheese his customers found to be a good substitute for classic, aged hard cheeses such as parmesan.

When the teenage Queen grew bored with her aged and obese husband, it was Lady Rochford who helped organise secret meetings between Queen Catherine and the handsome courtier Thomas Culpeper.