War of the League of Cognac

Timeline

1. 1526Cognac · FrancePope Clement VII, King Francis I of France (after his release), Venice, Florence, and Milanese exiles concluded an anti-Habsburg league aimed at curbing Charles V's hegemonic expansion in Italy and Europe.
2. 1526–1528Italian Peninsula · Italian PeninsulaAllied forces fought imperial troops and Italian noble factions such as the Colonna in Lombardy, Romagna, and Tuscany. The war reached the heartland of the Papal States, and the problem of unpaid imperial troops grew ever more serious, planting the seeds for the subsequent Sack of Rome.
3. 1528–1530Tuscany · TuscanyFrance and Venice successively made peace with the empire, and Florence became the last stronghold resisting imperial troops. After Florence fell in 1530, the War of the League of Cognac ended in a Habsburg victory, and the Medici family was restored.