{"slug": "piacenza", "label": "Piacenza", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piacenza", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13329", "qid": "Q13329", "description": "Italian comune", "entries": 14, "years": 14, "span": [-186, 1796], "span_label": ["187 BCE", "1796 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "parma", "label": "Parma", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "milan", "label": "Milan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "brescia", "label": "Brescia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "po-river", "label": "Po River", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lotharingia", "label": "Lotharingia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-the-bald", "label": "Charles the Bald", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "louis-the-german", "label": "Louis the German", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lothair-ii", "label": "Lothair II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-italy-holy-roman-empire", "label": "Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -186, "year_label": "187 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The construction of the Via Aemilia, a trunk road in the north Italian plains, running from Ariminum (Rimini), on the Adriatic coast, to Placentia (Piacenza) on the river Padus (Po), is completed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1223702100#Roman_Republic", "title": "187 BC", "revid": 1223702100, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -42, "year_label": "43 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Antony marches to Parma (which is sacked) and Placentia. He then crosses the Ligurian Alps to Vada Sabatia, 50 km 0 south-west of Genoa, and joins with Aemilius Lepidus, soon after Decimus Brutus is killed by brigands. The Senate declares Antony a hostis, an enemy of the state. Sextus Pompey becomes supreme commander of the Roman navy and Gaius Cassius proconsul of Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338224737#Roman_Republic", "title": "43 BC", "revid": 1338224737, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 271, "year_label": "271 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Placentia: The Iuthungi invade Italy and sack the city of Piacenza. A Roman army under Emperor Aurelian is ambushed and defeated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347633744#Roman_Empire", "title": "271", "revid": 1347633744, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 456, "year_label": "456 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 17", "text": "October 17 – Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian (comes domesticorum), defeats the usurper Avitus near Piacenza (northern Italy). They compel him to renounce the purple, and Avitus is obliged to become bishop of Piacenza.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752999#Roman_Empire", "title": "456", "revid": 1364752999, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 476, "year_label": "476 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 – Orestes is arrested by Odoacer near Piacenza, and swiftly executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355222972#Roman_Empire", "title": "476", "revid": 1355222972, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 824, "year_label": "824 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 5", "text": "March 5 – Adelard becomes the new Duke of Spoleto upon the death of his father, Suppo I, who ruled much of Italy including Brescia, Parma, Piacenza, Modena, and Bergamo. Adelard reigns for only five months before dying in August.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361215157#By_date", "title": "824", "revid": 1361215157, "section": "Events › By date"}}, {"year": 869, "year_label": "869 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 8", "text": "August 8 – Lothair II, King of Middle Francia (Lotharingia), dies at Piacenza, on his way home from meeting Pope Adrian II at Rome, to get assent for a divorce. Lotharingia is subsequently divided between Lothair's uncles, Charles the Bald of France and Louis the German.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369351830#Europe", "title": "869", "revid": 1369351830, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 894, "year_label": "894 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March", "text": "March – Arnulf of Carinthia proceeds to Piacenza, and from there invades central Italy. After a successful campaign, he calls the invasion off and returns to Pavia – probably because Duke Rudolph I of Burgundy was threatening to invade Lorraine. Arnulf has himself proclaimed King of Italy at Pavia, leaving Berengar I as his vice-regent in Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130298#Europe", "title": "894", "revid": 1341130298, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1162, "year_label": "1162 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – German forces led by Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, capture Milan; much of the city is destroyed three weeks later on the emperor's orders. The fortifications are demolished and the churches are destroyed. The population is dispersed, and the commune abolished. The fate of Milan leads to the submission of Brescia, Piacenza, and many other northern Italian cities.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369184511#Europe", "title": "1162", "revid": 1369184511, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1167, "year_label": "1167 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – Oath of Pontida: Supported by Pope Alexander III, the Lombard League is founded, a military alliance between the municipalities of Milan, Lodi, Ferrara, Piacenza and Parma, against the German invading forces of Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) in Northern Italy. The League (with other Italian cities) openly challenges Frederick's claim to power (Honor Imperii).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361983030#Europe", "title": "1167", "revid": 1361983030, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1236, "year_label": "1236 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July", "text": "July – At a diet (princely convention) in Piacenza, Emperor Frederick II proclaims his wish to recover all Italy for the Holy Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361428601#Europe", "title": "1236", "revid": 1361428601, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1447, "year_label": "1447 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 16", "text": "November 16 – In the War of the Milanese Succession, Francesco Sforza, leader of the forces of the Ambrosian Republic of Milan, overwhelms the city of Piacenza after a siege that began on October 1. According to a contemporary account, Piacenza \"endured every evil\" from the Milanese over the next 50 days. Cristoforo da Soldo comments that \"as for the ravaging of the land that was plundered, it would take a great pile of paper to write down the many cruelties. All the churches were robbed.. virgins, married women, widows, and nuns, all of them were shamed, abused and wrongly molested.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359486325#October_–_December", "title": "1447", "revid": 1359486325, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1547, "year_label": "1547 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 10", "text": "September 10 – Conspirators led by Ferrante Gonzaga murder Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and son of the Pope, and hang his body from a window of his palace in Piacenza.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369359234#July–September", "title": "1547", "revid": 1369359234, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1796, "year_label": "1796 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 6", "text": "May 6 – Napoleon Bonaparte forms an advanced guard (3,500 infantry and 1,500 cavalry) under General Claude Dallemagne. He sends this force along the south bank of the Po River, to cross it with boats at Piacenza.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368676893#April–June", "title": "1796", "revid": 1368676893, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}