Short answers, pulled from the story.
The year 1183 BC marks the legendary founding of Padua by Antenor, a Trojan prince who fled the fall of Troy. Archaeological evidence suggests the town center actually dates between the 11th and 10th centuries BC.
The Veneti people established Padua as one of their principal centers on the banks of the river Brenta by the 5th century BC. This waterway was known as Medoacus Maior during the Roman era when the city became a Roman municipium in 49 BC.
Padua came under Venetian rule on a specific date in 1405 and mostly remained that way until 1797. A brief period occurred in 1509 during wars of the League of Cambrai when Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I received Padua along with other territories.
The University of Padua founded in 1222 hosts the oldest anatomy theatre built in 1594. Galileo Galilei observed moons of Jupiter through homemade telescope in Padua during 1610 marking second phase of Copernican Revolution while Nicolaus Copernicus also taught or studied there alongside figures like Vesalius Fallopius and William Harvey.
Heaviest raids struck 16 and the 30th of December 1943 each causing 300 victims. Over 300 tons dropped by 111 bombers on the 11th of March 1944 destroyed 950 homes and damaged 1,400 more across the city.