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2012 Event - Naples' Casoria Contemporary Art Museum begins burning its artworks to protest government budget cuts affecting cultural institutions

1982 Event - Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion

1979 Death - Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in Naples), dies at 53

1976 Event - Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic

1975 Event - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic

1974 Event - Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic

1970 Birthday - Diego Nargiso, Naples Italy, tennis pro

1966 Birthday - Valeria Golino, Naples Italy, actress, Rain Man, Little Flames

1963 Birthday - Alessandra Mussolini, Naples Italy, actress, Ferragosto OK

1963 Birthday - Patrizia Pellegrino, born in Naples, Italy, Italy's Miss Teenager 1980

1963 Event - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament

1962 Birthday - Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Naples Italy, TV actress, Passioni

1962 Event - Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament

1961 Event - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament

1954 Birthday - Tony Rosato, Naples Italy, comedian, SCTV, SNL, Amanda's

1954 Birthday - Lina Polito, born in Naples, Italy, actress, Love and Anarchy

1944 Event - Churchill and Tito meet in Naples

1943 Event - Allied forces captured Naples during WW II

1943 Event - King's Dragon Guards liberates suburbs of Naples

1943 Event - Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples

1935 Birthday - Bruno Canino, born in Naples, Italy, composer, pianist, chamber musician, accompanist, studied with Vincenzo Vitale, and in Milan with Bruno Bettinelli, music director of Biennale di Venezia, recordings include Bach Goldberg Variations

1922 Birthday - Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director, Lucky Luciano

1922 Birthday - Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor, All in the Family, LA Law

1914 Birthday - Emilio Pucci, Naples, fashion designer, Neiman-Marcus Award-1954

1898 Birthday - Toto, Antonio de Curtis, Naples Italy, actor, Motorizzate, Noi Duri

1879 Event - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples

1873 Birthday - Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor, Faust

1860 Death - Carolina, duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples, dies

1858 Event - Opera "I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples)

1857 Event - Earthquake in Naples, Italy

1849 Event - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller," premieres in Naples

1848 Event - King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution

1835 Event - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor," premieres in Naples

1834 Birthday - John Acton, born in Naples, Italy, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie

1825 Death - Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies

1825 Death - Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73

1821 Event - Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna

1816 Event - Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire

1815 Death - Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15), executed

1815 Event - Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death

1815 Event - Joachim Murats fleet sails from Corsica to Naples

1815 Event - Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples

1815 Event - Austria declares war on realm of Naples

1811 Death - John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77

1808 Event - French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples

1805 Event - Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die

1800 Event - Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples

1799 Event - King of Naples flees before advancing French armies

1798 Birthday - Carolina F L duchess of Berry, daughter of crown prince of Naples

1788 Death - Carlos III, King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at 72

1770 Birthday - Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian, Naples Revolution 1799

1767 Birthday - Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples, 1808-15

1762 Event - England declares war on Spain and Naples

1751 Birthday - Ferdinand I, king of Sicily and Naples

1740 Event - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily

1734 Event - Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples

1734 Birthday - John F E Acton, cruel premier of Naples

1716 Birthday - Carlos III, king of Naples/Spain, 1759-88, Pompei/Jesuits

1685 Birthday - Domenico Scarlatti, Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist

1648 Event - Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples

1647 Event - People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples

1626 Event - Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die

1608 Birthday - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer

1586 Death - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, viceroy of Naples (1571-75), dies at 69

1562 Event - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)

1555 Event - Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan

1554 Event - Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem

1534 Event - Turkish Admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap and plunder Naples

1530 Death - Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies

1517 Birthday - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples, 1571-75

1515 Death - Gonzalo de Cordoba, Spanish general/strategist/viceroy of Naples, dies

1504 Event - By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon

1504 Event - King Louis XII loses last bulwark in Naples, Caeta

1500 Event - Treaty of Granada: France and Aragon divide Naples

1496 Death - Ferdinand II, king of Naples, dies

1495 Death - Alfonso II, king of Naples (1494-95), dies

1495 Event - French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders

1495 Event - King Ferdinand II returns to Naples

1495 Event - French King Charles VIII leaves Naples

1495 Event - French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown

1494 Event - Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples

1494 Death - Ferdinand I, cruel king of Naples, dies

1467 Birthday - Ferdinand II, King of Naples

1458 Death - Alfonso V, King of Aragon/Sicily/Naples (Alfonso I), dies

1456 Event - Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die

1442 Event - King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples

1442 Event - King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples

1435 Death - Johanna II, lawless Queen of Naples (1414-35), dies at 61

1413 Event - King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome

1384 Death - Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers), dies

1382 Death - Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies

1373 Birthday - Johanna II, Queen of Naples, 1414-35

1343 Death - Robert of Anjou, king (Naples), dies

1339 Birthday - Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples, Battle at Poitiers

1309 Death - Charles II, the Lame, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies

1285 Death - Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58

1268 Death - Konradijn Hohenstaufen, son of Koenraad IV, beheaded in Naples

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