Thursday, May 30, 2013
0069-04-15 - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
0394-09-06 - Battle of Frigidus North-Italy
0452-06-08 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
0489-08-28 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
0493-03-15 - Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
0554-08-14 - Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt governor in Italy
0657-07-30 - St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
0668-09-15 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
0672-01-27 - St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0876-01-31 - Charles becomes king of Italy
0878-05-21 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
0951-09-23 - Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy
1004-05-15 - Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy
1026-03-23 - Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy
1071-04-16 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
1158-11-11 - Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy
1167-12-01 - Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
1208-02-24 - St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy
1223-12-25 - St Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
1310-06-09 - Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1327-04-06 - Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
1336-05-09 - Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux
1341-04-14 - Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1377-02-03 - Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy
1382-03-15 - Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
1467-04-26 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy.
1474-04-09 - Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians
1494-11-08 - Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy
1497-02-25 - Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France
1497-05-10 - Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to the New World
1498-04-07 - Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1503-02-13 - Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights
1509-04-27 - Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
1509-05-14 - Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
1509-10-12 - Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy
1512-11-01 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in Vatican, Italy 1st exhibited
1524-08-19 - Emperor Charles V's troops besiege Marseille, Italy
1526-01-14 - Charles V & Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid, forcing Francis to give up claims to Burgundy, Italy & Flanders
1544-07-19 - Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
1550-04-02 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1555-07-02 - Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
1559-04-02 - Genoa Italy, expels Jews
1567-06-15 - Genoa Italy expels Jews
1571-03-25 - Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland
1571-10-07 - Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain & Italy) destroys Turkish fleet
1582-10-05 - Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
1598-01-08 - Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy
1616-09-15 - The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1629-07-30 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
1630-05-17 - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
1631-12-16 - Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
1633-02-13 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun
1649-09-02 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1669-03-11 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1737-03-12 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1738-04-15 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
1769-08-18 - Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
1775-03-19 - 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
1783-02-04 - Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
1796-04-13 - Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians
1796-09-05 - General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy
1796-11-17 - Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy
1797-01-07 - The modern Italian flag is first used.
1798-06-07 - Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews
1802-01-25 - Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1803-05-18 - Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland
1805-05-26 - Napoleon is crowned king of Italy
1808-04-30 - 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1811-07-11 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
1814-03-30 - Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
1815-10-08 - Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo Italy
1824-07-30 - Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
1825-11-29 - 1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC)
1834-11-23 - Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premieres
1843-06-24 - Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy
1848-07-23 - Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
1848-07-25 - 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
1849-03-23 - Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)
1849-07-03 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
1849-08-22 - The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
1852-11-04 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
1855-04-26 - Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy
1857-12-16 - Earthquake in Naples, Italy
1858-01-14 - French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed
1858-05-15 - Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London
1859-06-24 - Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria
1860-04-02 - 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
1860-05-26 - Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy
1861-02-18 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st King of Italy
1861-03-17 - Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
1862-03-22 - San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
1862-08-29 - Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1866-04-08 - Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary.
1866-06-20 - Italy declares war on Austria
1866-06-24 - 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army
1866-07-17 - Italian fleet under adm Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa
1866-07-20 - Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy
1866-11-04 - Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
1870-09-20 - Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French
1870-10-02 - Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
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