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Italy

430 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Italy, 1100 CE to 1984 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

12th century

50 entries, 1100 CE to 1192 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1100William IV, Marquess of MontferratItalysource
  • 1102Henry, Count of Monte Sant'AngeloItalysource
  • 1108Gregory III, Count of TusculumItalysource
  • 1112Benedict of Cagliari – Benedictine Bishop of Dolia, SardiniaItalysource
  • 1115William V, Marquess of MontferratItalysource
  • 111615 July – Venetian forces under Doge Ordelafo Faliero defeat forces connected with Stephen II near Zara. The victory strengthens Venetian control over parts of Dalmatia, although the conflict continues into the following year.Italysource
  • 11163 February – Coloman, King of Hungary dies and is succeeded by his son Stephen II. The succession occurs during the wider Venetian-Hungarian struggle over the Dalmatian coast.Italysource
  • 1116Emperor Henry V crosses the Alps into Italy and takes possession of the lands associated with the inheritance of Matilda of Tuscany, who had died the previous year. The disputed succession to the Matildine lands becomes an important issue in relations between the empire and the papacy.Italysource
  • 1123Pactum Warmundi treaty between the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Republic of Venice signedItalysource
  • 1123Saint Peter of Pappacarbone (?-1123) abbotItalysource
  • 1137The Battle of Rignano was the second great defeat of the career of Roger II of Sicily and, like the first, the Battle of Nocera, it too came at the hands of Ranulf II, Count of Alife. The prime difference was the position of the two combatants.Italysource
  • 1137Sergius VII of Naples (?-1137) - last Duke of NaplesItalysource
  • 1137Emperor Lothar II (1075–1137) - Holy Roman Emperor, died on return to GermanyItalysource
  • 1156The events in 1156 left the pope alone in opposition to the Normans. The army of Michael Palaeologus had been annihilated, the army of Frederick Barbarossa had returned to Germany, and the internal rebels against royal authority in Apulia, men like Robert II of Capua or Richard II of Aquila, had either reconciled or been imprisoned. In short, the pope had no support to continue hostilities. He was also barred from Rome by the populace. He was staying at Benevento, which had been papal territory for over a century. The Sicilian army approached Benevento and the pope was forced to make terms.Italysource
  • 1158The Diet of Roncaglia near Piacenza was first convoked by Frederick Barbarossa.Italysource
  • 1158Geoffrey VI, Count of Anjou (1134–1158)Italysource
  • 1167Battle of Monte Porzio - The Battle of Monte Porzio or Battle of Tusculum was fought on 29 May 1167, Whit Sunday, between the Holy Roman Empire and the city of Rome between a small hill outside the city of Tusculum and the city walls, at a place called "Prataporci", about 15 miles southeast of Rome. In the historical book Chronica Universalis, Sicardo wrote about the site of battle:...apud Montem Portium.Italysource
  • 1167Avraham Ibn Ezra (c.1093–1167) - poetItalysource
  • 1176Galdino della Sala (1096–1176) - Saint GaldinusItalysource
  • 1177Treaty of Venice : The Treaty of Venice or Peace of Venice, 1177, was an important peace treaty between the papacy and its allies, the north Italian city-states of the Lombard League, and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor. The Norman Kingdom of Sicily also took part in negotiations and the treaty thereby determined the political course of all Italy for the next several years.Italysource
  • 1177Consecration of The Chiesa di San Salvatore (of the Holy Saviour) in Venice, by Pope Alexander IIIItalysource
  • 1177Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (Italian: Silvestro Guzzolini; 1177 – 26 November 1267), an Italian saint, the founder of the religious order known as the SylvestrinesItalysource
  • 1179Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)Italysource
  • 118918 November – King William II of SicilyItalysource
  • 1191In August, Sicilians defeat an invasion of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor; Empress Constance is captured and later imprisoned at Castel dell'Ovo at Naples.Italysource

13th century

18 entries, 1215 CE to 1287 CE

  • 1215Manfred III of Saluzzo begins reign as Margrave of SaluzzoItalysource
  • 1215(Disputed) — Pope St. Celestine V, pope between July and December 1294, last pope not elected through a papal conclave.Italysource
  • 1215Manfred II, Marquess of SaluzzoItalysource
  • 1237Gualdo Tadino is destroyed by fireItalysource
  • 1248Viam agnoscere veritatis (1248)Italysource
  • 1248University of Piacenza recognized as a universityItalysource
  • 1260April 28 – Blessed Luchesio ModestiniItalysource
  • 126626 February – The Battle of Benevento occurs between the Guelph and Ghibelline factions. The Guelph faction wins a decisive victory, leading to the death of the King of Sicily, Manfred, and the end of Hohenstaufen rule over the Kingdom.Italysource
  • 126626 February – Manfred, King of SicilyItalysource
  • 1283Bonagratia de San Giovanni in PersicetoItalysource
  • 1285September 4 - Battle of Les Formiguestook place probably in the early morning of 4 September 1285 near Les Formigues Islands, about 85 km northeast of Barcelona, when a Catalan-Sicilian galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeated a French and Genoese galley fleet commanded by Guilhem de Lodeva, Henry di Mari, and John de Orrea.Italysource
  • 1285Jacopo Savelli becomes Pope Honorius IV upon election, succeeding Pope Martin IVItalysource
  • 1285Rucellai Madonna painted for the Church of Santa Maria Novella in FlorenceItalysource
  • 1285Pope Martin IV (Simon de Brion, ?-1285)Italysource
  • 1285Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207–1285)Italysource
  • 1285Charles I of Naples (1226–1285) - King of Sicily, Albania, and Naples; also known as Charles of AnjouItalysource
  • 1285Amadeus V, Count of Savoy (ca. 1250-1285) - Amadeus the Great, successor to his uncle Philip IItalysource
  • 1287Robert III of Artois (1287–1342)Italysource

14th century

9 entries, 1300 CE to 1339 CE

  • 1300Battle of Ponza (1300) was a naval battle that occurred on 14 June 1300 near the islands of Ponza and Zannone, in the Gulf of Gaeta (NW of Naples), when a galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeated an Aragonese-Sicilian galley fleet commanded by Conrad d'Oria.Italysource
  • 1300February 22 – The Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII is celebrated.Italysource
  • 1300Birth of Taddeo Gaddi, painter and architect.Italysource
  • 1300August 29 – Guido Cavalcanti, poet (born 1250)Italysource
  • 1300December 12 – Bartolo da San Gimignano, Italian beatified Catholic priest, member of Third Order of Saint Francis (born 1228)Italysource
  • 1300Sack of Lucera by a Christian army under the command of Charles II of Naples; the Muslim inhabitants were killed or sold into slavery.Italysource
  • 1325Pandolfo II Malatesta, condottiereItalysource
  • 1339Alexander V (Petros Philarges, 1339–1410) - antipope 1409-1410Italysource
  • 1339Azzone I Visconti (1302–1339), Signore di Milano (1329–1339)Italysource

15th century

7 entries, 1402 CE to 1494 CE

16th century

1 entry, 1500 CE to 1500 CE

  • 1500April – The Battle of Novara was fought in Milan between the forces of King Louis XII of France and the forces of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan. Ultimately, Sforza was taken to France as a captive after his troops were defeated in battle.Italysource

17th century

15 entries, 1610 CE to 1695 CE

19th century

108 entries, 1884 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1884Prime Minister – Agostino Depretis (1881–1887)Italysource
  • 188426 June — The first Italian officially to fall ill of cholera on Italian soil is a migrant worker who arrived at Ventimiglia from Toulon.Italysource
  • 18855 February — Italian troops of the Corpo Speciale per l'Africa (Special Corps for Africa), commanded by Colonel Tancredi Saletta, move into Massawa in Italian Eritrea without resistance or protest from its Egyptian garrison. The outbreak of the Mahdist uprising in the Sudan had changed the political situation in the Horn of Africa. Egypt was unable to maintain its garrison in Massawa and, with British approval and using the massacre of the explorer Gustavo Bianchi in 1884 as a pretext, the government had decided to take action in December 1884. The move will eventually lead to the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889.Italysource
  • 188520 May — The sixth International Sanitary Conference opened in Rome convened by the Italian government as a result of the outbreak of cholera in the country in 1884.Italysource
  • 188618 May — Eruption on the southern flank of the Mount Etna volcano on Sicily, following a powerful summit explosion. The eruption builds a row of pyroclastic cones, the largest of which is named Monte Gemmellaro (in honour to the Gemmellaro family of volcanologists from Catania who studied Etna in the 19th century). A lava stream comes very close to Nicolosi. Eruptions continue to 7 June 1886.Italysource
  • 188726 January – An Ethiopian force of about 15,000 men ambushed an Italian battalion sent to reinforce Saati and almost annihilated it at the Battle of Dogali, 10 mi west of Massawa. The Italian response was immediate. The Italian parliament voted 5,000,000 lire for troops to reinforce Massawa. An Italian force was sent to garrison the interior, while Emperor Yohannes IV withdrew his forces to avoid confrontation. Disease ravaged the Italian troops and they were pulled out in March 1887, ending the first phase of the war. The battle marks the start of the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889.Italysource
  • 188830 December – The Crispi government enacted the first Italian law introducing timid regulations on migrant protection to regulate expanding emigration from Italy. The Emigration Act of 1888 is also known as the Crispi Law on emigration. The law proclaimed the freedom to emigrate, as long as those intending to leave were in order with the military draft. It regulated the activities of emigration agents and regulated the contract of maritime transport. Married women could leave but only with their husband's consent. Transatlantic emigration had risen from about 20,000 a year before 1879 to 130,000 in 1887, and to nearly 205,000 in 1888.Italysource
  • 18892 May – Signing of the Treaty of Wuchale between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy after the Italian occupation of Eritrea in the small Ethiopian town of Wuchale. King Menelik II had just won the imperial crown with the aid of Italian money and weapons. The purpose of the treaty was to promote friendship and trade among the two countries. Article 17 of the treaty was translated and interpreted differently by Ethiopia and Italy. Italy claimed the article imposed a protectorate over Ethiopia.Italysource
  • 188918 October – Antonio Meucci, inventor (born 1808).Italysource
  • 18909 December – The Finance Minister, Giovanni Giolitti, and the Minister of Public Works, Gaspare Finali, resign over a contrast on the Ministry of Public Works expenses.Italysource
  • 1891January 15 – Foundation of Critica Sociale by Filippo Turati and Anna Kuliscioff, the most influential Marxist review in Italy from 1891 to 1898, tackling all the serious public problems of 1890s: banking scandals, repression of the Fasci Siciliani unrest, the colonial war in Africa, and food riots.Italysource
  • 1892May 15 – The new government headed by Giovanni Giolitti takes office after Antonio Di Rudinì lost the vote in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, because his financial policy is opposed on both the right and the left.Italysource
  • 1892December 20 – The Socialist deputy Napoleone Colajanni reads out long extracts of a report on the Banca Romana in Parliament and Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti is forced to appoint an expert commission to investigate the Banca Romana scandal.Italysource
  • 1893August 16–17 – Massacre of Italian workers of the Compagnie des Salins du Midi in Aigues-Mortes (France) by French villagers and workers. The New York Times, reporting from the trial of ringleaders later in the year, reported that "ten men were killed and twenty-six wounded". Anti-French riots erupt in Italy. In Rome the windows of the French Embassy were smashed and for a while the angry mob seemed to get out of hand.Italysource
  • 189331 July – A peasant conference at Corleone drafted model agrarian contracts for labourers, sharecroppers and tenants and presented them to the landowners. When those refused to negotiate, a strike against landowners and against state taxes broke out over a large part of western Sicily. The so-called Patti di Corleone (Corleone Covenants), are considered by historians to be the first trade union collective contract in capitalist Italy.Italysource
  • 1894February 28 – Prime Minister Crispi reveals the "evidence" for a widespread conspiracy in parliament: the so-called "International Treaty of Bisacquino", signed by the French Government, the Czar of Russia, Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida, the anarchists and the Vatican, with the goal to detach Sicily from the rest of the country and put it under a Franco-Russian protectorate. The Radical deputy Felice Cavallotti ridicules the conspiracy of Crispi.Italysource
  • 1894July 19 – A package of anti-anarchist laws and public safety measures is enacted.Italysource
  • 1894August 16 – Sante Geronimo Caserio, Italian anarchist and the assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic (born 1873)Italysource
  • 1895April 24 – The Supreme Court decides that former Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti cannot not be tried by an ordinary civil court, as Giolitti had argued since he had made his accusations against the involvement of current Prime Minister Crispi in the Banca Romana scandal in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Only the Senate could hear the case. Giolitti had been accused of embezzlement of judiciary document as well as libel against Crispi and his wife, and had been summoned before the courts after the Public Prosecutor, sustained by lower courts, had started the prosecution.Italysource
  • 1896March 1 – The Battle of Adwa between Ethiopia and Italy near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigray. It was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, securing Ethiopian sovereignty and ending Italian attempts at its conquest for another three and a half decades. The Italians suffered about 7,000 killed and 1,500 wounded in the battle and subsequent retreat back into Eritrea, with 3,000 taken prisoner. Ethiopian losses have been estimated at around 4,000–5,000 killed and 8,000 wounded. When the news reached Italy, street demonstrations and rioting broke out in major cities.Italysource
  • 1896March 4 – The government of Prime Minister Francesco Crispi collapsed after the humiliating defeat of the Italian army at Adwa in Ethiopia during First Italo-Ethiopian War amidst Italian disenchantment with "foreign adventures".Italysource
  • 1897Monarch – Umberto I (1878–1900)Italysource
  • 189828 May – Fall of the administration of Antonio di Rudinì following the May massacres in Milan. Indignation at the results of his policy against the uprisings in May left him without support of both the Left – who blamed him for the bloodshed – and the Right – who blamed him for the permissiveness that allegedly had promoted the uprisings and led to his overthrow.Italysource
  • 189814 May – Bread riots continue in various areas in Italy, such as Naples and Pontedera, with several people killed.Italysource
  • 1899May 14 – Prime Minister Pelloux resigns over his Chinese policy. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Felice Napoleone Canevaro had demanded that the Chinese Empire grant it a lease for a naval coaling station at China's Sanmen Bay (known as "San-Mun Bay" to the Italians) similar to the lease the German Empire had secured in 1898 at Kiautschou Bay. China refused to comply and Italy had to withdraw its ultimatum, becoming the first and only Western power to fail to achieve its territorial goals in China. The fiasco was an embarrassment that gave Italy – still stung by its defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian Empire in the Battle of Adowa in 1896 – the appearance of a third-rate power. Pelloux and his fellow cabinet ministers stated that Canevaro had acted without informing them, and it was widely believed that king Umberto I was the one who had given Canevaro the orders to acquire a concession in China. Pelloux forms a new government, the most decisively conservative since 1876, without Canevaro.Italysource

20th century

222 entries, 1900 CE to 1993 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1900June 10 – Second round of the Italian general election. The Pelloux government fails to win a majority of seats. The "ministerial" left-wing bloc of the Historical Left led by Giovanni Giolitti remains the largest in Parliament, winning 296 of the 508 seats. The model of strong government advocated by the conservative Sidney Sonnino is discredited. More moderate politicians like Zanardelli and Giolitti resort back to more "conciliatory" politics.Italysource
  • 1901September 7 – The Boxer Protocol is signed in China's capital Beijing between the Qing Empire of China and the Eight-Nation Alliance after China's defeat in the intervention to put down the 1990 Boxer Rebellion. Italy is granted a concession in Tientsin from the Chinese government.Italysource
  • 1902December 9 – Start of the Venezuelan crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela in order to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims and President Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay foreign debts and damages suffered by European citizens in the 1892 Venezuelan civil war.Italysource
  • 1903June 13 – Prime Minister Giuseppe Zanardelli resigns after losing a vote in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. However, after several attempts the Cabinet is reconstructed. The Interior Minister Giovanni Giolitti resigns and is replaced.Italysource
  • 1904April 8–11 – At the Eighth Congress of the Italian Socialist Party in Bologna the revolutionary syndicalists led by Arturo Labriola and Enrico Ferri's left centre together win a clear majority, ending the cautious rapprochement of the reformist leader Filippo Turati with Giolitti to advance social reforms.Italysource
  • 1906February 2 – Prime Minister Alessandro Fortis resigns.Italysource
  • 1907November 21 − Ernest Nathan is appointed the first Jewish mayor of Rome, after a victory of anti-clericals at the municipal elections.Italysource
  • 1908October 29 – The Italian business machine manufacturer Olivetti is founded in Ivrea, producing typewriters.Italysource
  • 1909December 10 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the Nobel Prize for Physics.Italysource
  • 1910May 15 – Tullio Cariolato wins the 1910 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily driving a Franco.Italysource
  • 1911April 24 – The 3rd National Congress of the General Confederation of Labour (Confederazione Generale del Lavoro – CGdL), the most important Italian trade union, in Modena, affirms the independence of the trade union movement from party political constraints.Italysource
  • 1912October 27 – The Italian rider Carlo Oriani wins the 8th Giro di Lombardia bicycle race.Italysource
  • 1913May 11–12 – The Italian driver Felice Nazzaro wins the 1913 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.Italysource
  • 1914April 5 – The Italian rider Ugo Agostoni wins the 8th Milan–San Remo bicycle race.Italysource
  • 1916July 12 – Cesare Battisti and Fabio Filzi, both Austrian subjects but exponents of Trentino irredentism are hanged by the Austrians in Trento. They had enlisted in the Italian army and were captured by the Austrians, who condemned them as deserters.Italysource
  • 1918Due to World War I and the Spanish flu the Italian population declined by 612,937 peopleItalysource
  • 1920April 19–26 – San Remo conference held at Castle Devachan in Sanremo, Italy. Representatives of Italy, France, the United Kingdom and Japan meet to determine the League of Nations mandates for administration of territories following partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The conference was attended by the four Principal Allied Powers of World War I who were represented by the prime ministers of Britain (David Lloyd George), France (Alexandre Millerand), Italy (Francesco Nitti) and by Japan's Ambassador Keishirō Matsui.Italysource
  • 1921July 21 – In Sarzana Fascist squads occupy the station and five or six hundred are preparing to enter the city to impose the release of a dozen arrested fascists, but are attacked by the Carabinieri and the population resulting in eighteen dead and about thirty injured fascists (Fatti di Sarzana).Italysource
  • 192318 June – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homelessItalysource
  • 193021 November: A flying boat airliner I-RONY, operating on a passenger flight for Società Anonima Navigazione Aerea (SANA), disappears over the Mediterranean Sea during a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Marseille, France; all six people on board are lost.Italysource
  • 193830 March – Prime minister Benito Mussolini is granted the same level of power over the Italian military as that of King Victor Emmanuel III, taking the title First Marshal of the Empire.Italysource
  • 1944Ascolto il tuo cuore, città (Alberto Savinio)Italysource
  • 1956February 28: the three employers’ organization, Confindustria, Confcommercio and Confagricoltura constitute a coordination committee, Confintesa.Italysource
  • 197410 March – A ban on private automobiles on alternate days based on odd/even license plates went into effect, replacing the Sunday ban introduced in December of the previous year.Italysource
  • 198427 August – Fininvest buys Rete 4 television channel.Italysource