1482 - Moves to Milan, Italy
In 1482, Leonardo left Florence and moved to Milan, Italy shortly after he had begun "The Adoration of the Magi". There he went to work for Ludovico Sforza, the duke of Milan, as a military engineer and artist. While in the position Leonardo worked to design many new machines and weapons such as the tank and the submarine. Most of these machines never got made and Leonardo himself even destroyed some of them because he hated that they could cause such harm. He stayed with Ludovico Sforza for seventeen years until 1499 when he fell from power. Around this time Leonardo began writing in his notebooks regularly, which we now use to all the time.
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