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Benito Mussolini

dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945

14 dated entries naming Benito Mussolini, drawn from 13 separate years between 1914 CE and 1945 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1914November 24 – Benito Mussolini is expelled from the Italian Socialist Party.source
  • 1919March 23 – Benito Mussolini founds his Italian Fascist political movement in Milan.source
  • 1922October 28 – In Italy, the March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power. Italy begins a period of dictatorship that lasts until the end of the Second World War.source
  • 1925January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship.source
  • 1926April 7 – An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.source
  • 1928April 12 – A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in Milan kills 17 bystanders.source
  • 1932February 11 – Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in Vatican City.source
  • 1934June 14 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for the first time, at the Venice Biennale.source
  • 1935January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.source
  • 1936May 9 – Speaking in Rome, Benito Mussolini announces the foundation of the empire, as Italian East Africa is formed from the Italian territories of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland.source
  • 1938March 30 – Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini is granted equal power over the Italian military to that of King Victor Emmanuel III, as First Marshal of the Empire.source
  • 1938November 30 – Benito Mussolini and his Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, order "spontaneous" demonstrations in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, demanding that France cede Tunisia, Nice, Corsica and French Somaliland to Italy. This begins an acute crisis in Franco-Italian relations, that lasts until March 1939.source
  • 1943July 25 – Benito Mussolini, Fascist Prime Minister of Italy since 1922, is arrested after the Grand Council of Fascism withdraws its support. "Il Duce" is replaced by General Pietro Badoglio.source
  • 1945April 28 – The bodies of Benito Mussolini, his mistress, Clara Petacci, and other followers are hung by their heels at a gas station in the public square of Milan, Piazzale Loreto, following their execution by Italian partisans after an attempt to flee the country.source

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