| Year | Month | Day | Event |
|---|
| 62 |
Feb |
05 |
Earthquake In Pompeii, Italy |
| 421 |
Mar |
25 |
Legend Says Venice Founded At Noon |
| 461 |
Aug |
02 |
General Deposes Roman Emperor Near Tortona |
| 489 |
Aug |
28 |
Theodoric Forces Into Italy By Defeating Odoacer |
| 915 |
Dec |
03 |
Italian Berengar I Crowned Holy Roman Emperor |
| 1077 |
Apr |
03 |
The First Parliament Of Friuli Is Created |
| 1341 |
Apr |
14 |
Manfred V Sacked Saluzzo, Italy |
| 1355 |
Jan |
06 |
Charles I Crowned King Of Italy |
| 1377 |
Feb |
03 |
Cesena, Italy: Papal Troops Kill 2,000 |
| 1494 |
Nov |
18 |
French King Charles VIII Occupies Florence Italy |
| 1498 |
May |
23 |
Savonarola Burned At Stake In Italy |
| 1502 |
Jun |
15 |
Columbus Lands On Martinique On Fourth Voyage |
| 1503 |
Feb |
13 |
Italian And French Knights Battle At Barletta |
| 1524 |
Oct |
27 |
French Troops Lay Siege To Pavia |
| 1527 |
May |
16 |
Florentines Defeat Medici Forces, Again |
| 1544 |
Jul |
19 |
Boulogne Is Beside In The Italian Wars |
| 1555 |
Jul |
02 |
Targut Reis Attacks Paola |
| 1556 |
Jun |
13 |
Pomponio Nenna was Born |
| 1571 |
Oct |
07 |
Holy League Annihilates Turkish Fleet |
| 1737 |
Nov |
04 |
The Teatro Di San Carlo Is Inaugurated |
| 1738 |
Apr |
15 |
Handel Opera ""Serse"" Premiers In London |
| 1783 |
Feb |
05 |
Tremors In Calabria |
| 1797 |
Jan |
07 |
The Modern Italian Flag Is First Used |
| 1805 |
Mar |
17 |
Napoleon Becomes King Of Italy |
| 1814 |
Jul |
13 |
Carabinieri Is Established |
| 1860 |
Sep |
07 |
Garibaldi Occupies The City Of Naples |
| 1861 |
Mar |
17 |
The Kingdom Of Italy Is Proclaimed |
| 1866 |
Jun |
24 |
Custoza: Austrians Defeat Italians |
| 1866 |
Oct |
22 |
Venento, Mantua Plebiscite Ratifies Italian Annexation |
| 1870 |
Sep |
20 |
Rome Taken, Italian Unification Complete |
| 1882 |
May |
20 |
The Triple Alliance Is Formed |
| 1890 |
Jan |
01 |
Italy Makes Eritrea A Colony |
| 1895 |
Jan |
13 |
Italians Attack Ethiopia At Coatit |
| 1898 |
May |
08 |
Italian Football League First Plays |
| 1907 |
Jan |
06 |
A Daycare And School Opened In Rome, Italy |
| 1911 |
Sep |
29 |
Italy Declares War On Ottoman Empire |
| 1912 |
May |
04 |
Italy Occupies The Greek Island Of Rhodes |
| 1912 |
Oct |
19 |
Italy Takes Tripoli, Libya |
| 1915 |
May |
23 |
Italy Joins World War 1 Allies |
| 1915 |
Jul |
07 |
First Battle Of Isonzo Ends |
| 1916 |
Aug |
28 |
Italy Declares War On Germany |
| 1918 |
Nov |
04 |
Austria-Hungary Surrenders To Italy |
| 1922 |
Oct |
28 |
Mussolini's Fascists March On Rome |
| 1922 |
Oct |
30 |
Mussolini Becomes Prime Minister Of Italy |
| 1922 |
Nov |
17 |
Sultan Mehmen Exiled In Italy |
| 1924 |
Mar |
03 |
Free State Of Fiume Annexed |
| 1924 |
Jun |
10 |
Matteotti Kidnapped, Killed By Fascists In Rome |
| 1927 |
Oct |
25 |
Principessa Mafalda Sinks. Killing 314 |
| 1929 |
Feb |
11 |
Italy And Vatican Sign Treaty |
| 1929 |
Jul |
23 |
Italy's Government Bans Foreign Words |
| 1935 |
Jan |
07 |
France, Italy Reach Agreement |
| 1935 |
Oct |
03 |
Italy Invades Ehtiopia |
| 1935 |
Oct |
19 |
League Of Nations Places Sanctions On Italy |
| 1936 |
Feb |
10 |
Italy Attacks Ethiopia At Ambra Aradam |
| 1936 |
May |
05 |
Italian Troops Occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| 1936 |
Jul |
26 |
Axis Powers Intervene In Civil War |
| 1937 |
Mar |
18 |
Guadalajara: Spanish Defeat Italians |
| 1937 |
Dec |
11 |
Italy Leaves The League Of Nations |
| 1939 |
Apr |
07 |
Italy Invades Albania |
| 1939 |
May |
22 |
Germany And Italy Sign Pact (WWII) |
| 1939 |
May |
29 |
Albanian Leader Appointed To Italian Chamber |
| 1940 |
Jun |
10 |
Italy Declares War On France And Uk |
| 1940 |
Jun |
17 |
British 11th Army Defeats Italians In Libya |
| 1940 |
Jun |
20 |
WWII: Italians Unsuccessfully Attempt France Invasion |
| 1940 |
Nov |
02 |
Greece, Italy Clash In Elaia, Kalamas |
| 1941 |
Jan |
18 |
British Counter Italian East Africa |
| 1942 |
May |
26 |
Battle Of Gazala Takes Place |
| 1943 |
May |
13 |
World War II, German And Italians Surrendered |
| 1943 |
Jul |
22 |
WWII: Allied Forces Capture Palermo |
| 1943 |
Sep |
08 |
Dwight Announces Armistice With Italy During WWII |
| 1943 |
Sep |
09 |
The Allies Landed In Italy |
| 1943 |
Oct |
13 |
Italy Sides With Allies, Declares War On Germany |
| 1944 |
Jan |
29 |
Bologna Theatre Destroyed In Air Raid |
| 1944 |
Jan |
30 |
WWII: Battle Of Cisterna Begins In Italy |
| 1944 |
Feb |
07 |
German Forces Launch A Counteroffensive |
| 1944 |
Feb |
15 |
Assault On Monte Cassino Begins |
| 1944 |
Mar |
18 |
Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius Kills 23 |
| 1948 |
Jan |
01 |
The Constitution Of Italy Comes Into Force |
| 1951 |
Dec |
24 |
Libya Independent, Idris I Becomes King |
| 1962 |
Oct |
27 |
Mystery Surrounds Enrico Mattei's Plane Crash |
| 1964 |
Feb |
27 |
Italian Government Seeks Help In Saving Pisa Tower |
| 1965 |
Jul |
16 |
France, Italy Linked By Mont Blanc Tunnel |
| 1973 |
Jul |
10 |
Getty III Is Kidnapped In Rome |
| 1973 |
Nov |
22 |
Fascist Ordine Nuovo Is Disbanded |
| 1976 |
Jul |
10 |
The Seveso Disaster Occurs In Italy |
| 1981 |
Dec |
17 |
American General Abducted In Italy |
| 1987 |
May |
22 |
New Zealand Hosts First Rugby World Cup |
| 2000 |
Jun |
13 |
Italy Pardons Agca, Turkish Gunman |
| 2009 |
Apr |
06 |
307 Die In Earthquake In Italy |
| 2013 |
Oct |
03 |
134 Migrants Killed When Boat Sinks Near Italian Island |