1200Family
First Traces of the Name
The name Cocchini is said to appear in the hill country of central Italy. No surviving record has yet been located; the claim rests entirely on family tradition.
Hypothesis / UnverifiedThe Chronicle
Eight centuries of family and world history
Family events are set beside the history that surrounded them. Every entry carries an evidence status; demonstration entries are labelled as such.
12th Century · 14th Century · 15th Century · 16th Century · 17th Century · 18th Century · 19th Century · 20th Century · 21st Century
- 1348Historical context
The Black Death Reaches Tuscany
Plague swept the Italian peninsula, halving the population of Florence and reshaping every household that survived it.
Verified - 1385Family
A Household in Florence
Demonstration entry: the family is placed in Florence, working in the wool trade, in the generation before Lorenzo.
Research in Progress - 1494Historical context
The Medici Expelled from Florence
The republic was restored and the city entered the years of Savonarola. Merchant families realigned their fortunes.
Verified - 1497Family
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Books, paintings and finery were burned in the Piazza della Signoria. Family tradition holds that a book survived the pyre.
Family Tradition - 1536Family
A Marriage into the Veneto
Demonstration entry: a marriage carries one line of the family north toward Venice.
Research in Progress - 1564Historical context
Galileo Born in Pisa
The century of observation begins in Tuscany, a generation before Francesco Cocchini's demonstration lifetime.
Verified - 1610Family
Francesco Marries Lucia Bianchi
Demonstration entry: the marriage of Francesco Cocchini and Lucia Bianchi, remembered in family tradition.
Family Tradition - 1685Historical context
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Confessional upheaval reordered Europe and set families in motion across the continent.
Verified - 1765Family
Parish Registers Consolidated
Demonstration entry: the parish books that would later anchor our research begin to be kept consistently.
Research in Progress - 1776Historical context
American Independence Declared
A destination is created that the family would not reach for another century and a quarter.
Verified - 1849Historical context
The Roman Republic and Its Fall
Revolution and reaction crossed the peninsula; conscription and hardship followed in the provinces.
Verified - 1870Family
A Letter from Collecorvino
The 1889 letter preserved in our archive belongs to this generation in Collecorvino — one of the few genuinely documented threads on this page.
Documented - 1930Family
Identity Papers and Passage
The Carta d'Identità of 1928 and the tessera of Eugenio Cocchini, born 1880 at Collecorvino, both survive in the archive.
Verified - 2025Family
The Archive Is Founded
The family's surviving documents, photographs and letters are gathered into a single digital home.
Verified