ALPHA Timepoint is in alpha Talk to Us
Sack of Rome

Sack of Rome

The Swiss Guard makes a desperate last stand at the foot of St. Peter's Basilica as mutinous Imperial troops breach the city, transforming the center of the High Renaissance into a site of apocalyptic

Year 1527
Date 5/6
Location St. Peter's Basilica And The Teutonic Cemetery, Vatican Hill, Rome
Layer 2
Visibility HIDDEN
tax:siege-and-sack

Key Figures

Kaspar Röist Landsknecht Captain Pope Clement VII Spanish Arquebusier Terrified Altar Boy

Causal neighbors · 241 linked moments

S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
Sack of Rome
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
Sack of Rome
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous
S
Sack of Rome
1527 · contemporaneous