Alvise Contarini, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alvise Contarini

Doge of Venice

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1601

Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy

Date of Death: 15-Jan-1684

Profession: diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Not to be confused with Alvise Contarini (1597–1651), Venetian diplomat who negotiated the Peace of Westphalia. Alvise Contarini (24 October 1601 – 15 January 1684) was the 106th Doge of Venice, reigning from his election on 26 August 1676 until his death seven and a half years later.
He was the eighth and final member of the House of Contarini to serve as Doge of Venice (with the first being Domenico I Contarini, who became Doge in 1043). His reign was largely peaceful, as the Republic of Venice was still recovering from the defeat to the Ottoman Empire in the 1645–69 Cretan War.
However, in the last days of Contarini's reign, hostilities with the Ottoman Empire were rekindled once again, and Venice soon entered the Sixth Ottoman-Venetian War, better known as the Morean War (1684–99).