2015 Event Members of the E.U. have agreed to relocate 40,000 of the recent migrants to Italy and Greece; over 120,000 of the 150,000 migrants to Europe so far this year have landed in these two countries 2015 Event The Ezadeen, an abandoned ship carrying 450 Syrians, is rescued from choppy waters and brought safely to shore in Italy; the ship is the second to be abandoned by human traffickers off the nation's coast in the last four days 2014 Event 29-year-old Italian cyclist Vincenzo Nibali wins the Tour de France, becoming the first winner from Italy in 16 years; the victory makes Nibali one of only six cyclists to have won the Grand Tours of Italy, Spain and France 2014 Event Reality star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West are married in Florence, Italy, about 7 months after the birth of their daughter, North West; the celebrities have been together since early 2012 2014 Event New Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announces plans to cut government spending and use the funds to decrease taxes on individuals and regional businesses; Italy's unemployment rate increased 0.2 percent in January to 12.9 percent 2014 Event 39-year-old Former Florentine mayor Matteo Renzi has been inaugurated as Prime Minister of Italy 2014 Event Italy's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta resigns following friction within his own Democratic party 2014 Event Italy's Democratic leader Matteo Renzi calls for a new government and for the country's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, to resign 2013 Event Engineers working off of Italy's Tuscan coast pull the MS Costa Concordia cruise ship upright after it ran aground in early 2012 2013 Event The first case of the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome conavirus is announced in Italy 2013 Event The sixth straight quarter of recession is announced by the Eurozone; Germany reports weak growth and negative growth is recorded in Spain, Italy and France 2013 Event In Rome, Italy, Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy, dies at age 94 2013 Event In Italy, a deal on forming a new government is finalized two months after the 2013 Italian parliamentary election 2013 Event Italy's vice-secretary of the Democratic Party , Enrico Letta, receives the mandate for form a new government from president Giorgio Napolitano 2013 Event Italy re-elects President Giorgio Napolitano 2013 Event In Rome, Italy, the papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis is held in St. Peter's Square; hundreds of thousands attend 2013 Event In Vatican City, Italy, Pope Francis delivers his first message at the Vatican, telling journalists wants "a poor Church, for the poor" 2013 Event In Rome, Italy, Roman Catholic Cardinals meet in a conclave to appoint a successor to Pope Benedict XVI 2013 Event More than 100 Catholic cardinals meet in Rome, Italy, to begin the process of selecting the successor to Pope Benedict XVI 2013 Event Nestle removes its beef pasta meals from supermarkets in France, Spain and Italy after tests confirm the food giant has products contaminated with horsemeat 2012 Event Physics professor Enzo Di Fabrizio, of Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy, successfully takes the first direct photograph of DNA 2012 Event Several European countries protest against unemployment and austerity measures; Spain and Portugal hold the largest protests, with Greece, Italy and Belgium holding smaller ones 2012 Event Turin, Italy, is selected as the European Capital of Sport for 2015 2012 Event Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a sentence of four years for fiscal fraud 2012 Event The Egan-Jones Ratings Company projects Italy has a one-year default probability of 22%, downgrading the country to CCC+ from B+ 2012 Event Northern Italy, near Bologna, experiences a 5.8-magnitude earthquake; at least 24 people are killed 2012 Event The credit ratings of European Union members including Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain are downgraded by Moody's Investors Service 2011 Event In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns, as an emergency government takes his place to deal with the country's economic crisis 2011 Event Italy's credit rating is lowered from A+ to A by Standard and Poor's rating agency, a result of its high level of debt and the stability of its government 2011 Event Venice, Italy hosts the 68th Venice International Film Festival 2011 Event The European Central BAnk appoints Italy's Mario Draghi as its new President, set to replace Jean-Claude Trichet on November 1 2011 Event In Rome, Italy, over 500,000 people demonstrate, demanding same-sex rights 2010 Event Italy's plan to ban plastic bags goes into effect; the country was using 20 billion plastic bags a year - about 300 per person 2010 Event In Italy, a package at the Bologna Airport, addressed to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi bursts into flames during an inspection by police 2010 Event Planes return to the air in Germany, France and Italy after being grounded by ash clouds from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano 2009 Event Italian Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi is knocked to the ground and hit in the face after a political rally in Milan, Italy 2009 Event Tens of thousands in Rome, Italy, participate in a demonstration demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi 2009 Event Nearly 300 people are killed and 1,500 injured near L'Aquila, Italy, after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes 2007 Death Luciano Pavarotti, died in Modena, Italy, of pancreatic cancer, at 71 2007 Death Michelangelo Antonioni, dies in Rome, Italy, at 94 2006 Event Italy wins the World Cup 5-3 vs. France 2006 Event 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Turin, Italy 1998 Event 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die and 50 hurt 1998 Event U.S. military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20 1997 Event Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map 1996 Event 27th New York City Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54 1996 Death Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 1996 Death Amelia Rosselli, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, dies at 65 1994 Birthday Ricardo Dela Corte, Italy, test tube baby born to oldest, 62, mother 1994 Event Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup 1994 Death Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy 1987 - 1988, dies 1994 Event Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election 1992 Event Colombo '92 closes in Genoa, Italy 1992 Birthday Cole Sprouse, born in Arezzo, Italy, actor, Patrick Kelly-Grace Under Fire 1992 Birthday Dylan Sprouse, born in Arezzo, Italy, actor, Patrick Kelly-Grace Under Fire 1992 Event Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy 1992 Event Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy 1991 Death Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy 1954 - 1955, dies 1991 Event Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138 1991 Event Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours and 11 minutes 1991 Death Vasco Pratolini, Italy, writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77 1990 Event Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game 1990 Event 94th Boston Marathon won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy in 2:08:19 1990 Death Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93 1990 Death Mariano Rumor, Italy's Prime Minister 1968 - 1970, 1973 - 1974, dies 1989 Event Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy 1988 Death Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at 90 1988 Event Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy 1988 Death Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89 1988 Death Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73 1988 Death Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92 1988 Event Italy government of De Mita forms 1987 Event Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy 1987 Death Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67 1985 Event U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody 1985 Event Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die 1984 Death Enrico Berlinguer, Secretary-General (CP) Italy, dies 1984 Event Revised concordat between Italy and Vatican signed 1984 Event Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km 1983 Event Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy 1983 Death Umberto of Piemonte, King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies 1982 Event Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF) 1982 Event Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid 1982 Event U.S. General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy 1980 Event 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy 1980 Event Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mount Everest 1980 Event Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed 1979 Event 68th Davis Cup: USA beats Italy in San Francisco (5-0) 1978 Birthday Denny Mendez, Miss Italy Universe 1997 1978 Event Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy 1978 Event Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair 1978 Event Italy legalizes abortion 1978 Event 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy 1978 Event Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed 1978 Death Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists 1977 Birthday Francesca Lubiani, Bologna Italy, tennis star, Futures-Amadora-POR 1977 Event Italy legalizes abortion 1976 Event Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy 1976 Event Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy 1976 Birthday Adriana Serra-Zanetti, born in Modena Italy, tennis star, 1995 Moscow semi 1975 Birthday Asia Argento, born in Rome, Italy, actress, director, films include, 'La Chiesa', 'Trauma', 'The Phantom of the Opera', 'Scarlet Diva', 'Red Siren' 1975 Birthday Gloria Pizzichini, born in Italy, tennis star 1975 Event Italy's Communist party PCI, wins 1975 Birthday Rita Grande, born in Napoli, Italy, tennis star, 3rd round 1996 Australia Open 1975 Event Italy broadens abortion law 1975 Birthday Leo Insam, hockey defenseman, Team Italy 1998 1974 Event Rumor's government in Italy resigns 1973 Birthday Andrea Gaudenzi, born in Faenza, Italy, tennis star, 1990 French Open junior 1973 Birthday Markus Brunner, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1973 Birthday Stefano Margoni, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1972 Event Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy) 1972 Birthday Roland Ramoser, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1972 Birthday Brigitta Boccoli, Milan, Italy, actress, Manhattan Baby 1972 Birthday Silvia Farina, born in Milan, Italy, tennis star, 1995 Maria Lankowitz doubles 1972 Event Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy 1971 Event Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy 1970 Birthday Dino Felicetti, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1970 Event 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy 1970 Birthday Michela Rocco, born in Udine, Italy, Miss Italy, 1987 1970 Birthday Flora Perfetti, born in Faenza, Italy, tennis star 1970 Birthday Fabio Casartelli, born in Como, Italy, raced with Ariostea team in 1993, won Olympic gold medal in 1992 Summer Olympics road race 1970 Event Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship 1970 Event Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City 1970 Event Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup, in Mexico City 1970 Death Giuseppe Ungaretti, writer, poet, modernist, academic, best known work 'L'allegria' or 'The Joy', dies in Milan, Italy, at age 82, of bronchopneumonia 1970 Birthday Renzo Furlan, born in Conegliano, Italy, professional tennis player, represented Italy at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, 1996 1970 Birthday Stefania Croce, Bergamo Italy, golfer, 95 State Farm Rail Classic-11 1970 Birthday Giuseppe Busillo, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1970 Birthday Cristiano Caratti, born in Italy, tennis star, 1987 Orange Bowl boys doubles 1970 Birthday Patrick Brugnoli, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1970 Birthday Diego Nargiso, Naples Italy, tennis pro 1970 Birthday Chris Bartolone, hockey defenseman, Team Italy 1998 1969 Birthday Flora Perfetti, Faenza Italy, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Reims-FRA 1968 Birthday Scott Donie, Vicenza Italy, diver, Olympics-4th-96 1968 Event Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hour 1968 Birthday Stefan Figliuzzi, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1968 Birthday Omar Camporese, born in Bologna, Italy, professional tennis player, won two top-level singles and five tour doubles titles, ranked 18th in the World in singles, 27th for doubles, 1992 1968 Birthday Deborah Caprioglio, Miestre, Italy, actress, Big Game Hunter 1968 Birthday Chad Biafore, hockey defenseman, Team Italy 1998 1968 Birthday Sabrina [Salerno], born in Genoa, Italy, Miss Italy, 1984, and singer, Boys 1968 Birthday Bob Nardella, hockey defenseman, Team Italy 1998 1968 Birthday Michael Rosati, hockey goaltender, Team Italy 1998 1967 Birthday Laura Garrone, born in Milan, Italy, professional tennis player, won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, ranked 32nd in the World, January 1987 1967 Birthday Mario Chitarroni, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1967 Birthday Valeria Marini, Rome, Italy, sports commentator, Italian Soccer 1967 Birthday Lawrence Rucchin, hockey defenseman, Team Italy 1998 1967 Birthday Roberto Baggio, born in Caldogno, Italy, retired Italian footballer, greatest of 125 footballers in 2004 FIFA 100 list 1967 Birthday Laura Golarsa, born in Milan, Italy, professional tennis player, played on the WTA tour from 1985 to 2001, 124 - 184 singles record included wins over Jana Novotna and Zina Garrison 1967 Birthday Mario Brunetta, hockey goaltender, Team Italy 1998 1966 Event Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113 1966 Birthday Valeria Golino, Naples Italy, actress, Rain Man, Little Flames 1966 Birthday Angela Cavagna, Genoa Italy, singer 1966 Birthday Michael De Angelis, hockey defenseman, Team Italy 1998 1965 Birthday David Delfino, hockey goaltender, Team Italy 1998 1965 Birthday Raffaella Ragge, Italy, tennis star 1965 Birthday Raffaella Reggi, Italy, tennis star 1965 Birthday Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Turin Italy, actress, Normal People 1965 Birthday Robert Oberrrauch, hockey defenseman, Team Italy 1998 1965 Birthday Lucio Topatigh, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1965 Birthday Francesca Dellera, Cervellera, Rome, Italy, actress, Capriccio 1965 Birthday Maurizio Mansi, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1965 Event Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens 1965 Birthday Gianluca Pozzi, born in Bari, Italy, tennis star, 1991 Brisbane 1965 Birthday Paolo Cane, born in Italy, tennis star 1965 Event Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy 1965 Birthday Sandra Cecchini, Bologna Italy, tennis star, 1995 Warsaw doubles 1965 Birthday Federica Moro, Carate Brianza Italy, Miss Italy, 1982 1965 Birthday Loredana Romito, Benevento Italy, model/actress, Fatal Temptation 1964 Event President Segni of Italy resigns 1964 Birthday Amanda Sandrelli, Rome, Italy, actress, The Key 1964 Birthday Marco Masini, born in Florence, Italy, entertainer, singer, songwriter 1964 Birthday Giuseppe Giannini, Rome, Italy, soccer player, Rome A Team 1964 Birthday Isabelle Ferrari, born in Italy, Italy's Miss Teenager 1964 Birthday Francesca Neri, Trento Italy, actress, Ages of Lulu 1963 Birthday Alessandra Mussolini, Naples Italy, actress, Ferragosto OK 1963 Event Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die 1963 Event Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die 1963 Event Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy) 1963 Birthday Patrizia Pellegrino, born in Naples, Italy, Italy's Miss Teenager 1980 1963 Event King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia 1963 Birthday Francesco Cancellotti, Italy, tennis star 1963 Event 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of U.S.) 1963 Birthday Madusa Miceli, Debra Ann, Milan Italy, wrestler, WCW 1962 Birthday Gaetano Orlando, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1962 Birthday Martin Pavlu, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1962 Birthday Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Naples Italy, TV actress, Passioni 1962 Event Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy 1962 Event Antonio Segni elected president of Italy 1961 Event Train accident in Italy, 70 die 1961 Death Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president Italy, dies 1961 Birthday Alba Parietti, born in Torino, Italy, actress, Galagoal, Abbronzatissima 1961 Birthday Mike Francis, born in Florence, Italy, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis' 1961 Birthday Fabio [Lanzoni], born in Italy, romance novels model, Fabio After Dark 1961 Birthday Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rome, Italy, concert violinist 1960 Event Italy beats U.S. in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years U.S. not in finals) 1960 Birthday Diego A Maradona, Argentina/Italy soccer player, World Cup 1960 Birthday Monica Bellucci, Citta di Castello Italy, actress, Dracula 1960 Birthday Cinzia De Ponti, Fiordeponti, Pescara Italy, Miss Italy 1979 1960 Event 17th Olympic games close in Rome, Italy 1960 Death Albrecht von Kesselring, German Field Marshal (Italy), dies at 74 1960 Birthday Greta Scacchi, Milan Italy, actress, Coca-Cola Kid, White Mischief 1959 Birthday Carmen Russo, Genoa Italy, Miss Teenage Italy, 1972 1959 Event Italy government of Fanfani resigns 1958 Birthday Pamela Prati, Rome, Italy, Million $ Cap, 1984, actress 1958 Birthday Lory Del Santo, Verona Italy, Miss Italy, 1980 1957 Death Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 in Italy 1957 Birthday Luca Urbani, Rome, Italy, MD/astronaut, STS-78-alt 1957 Event Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy 1956 Death Pietro Badoglio, Premier of Italy (1943-44), dies at 85 1956 Birthday Lili Carati, Varese Italy, Miss Italy, 1975, actress, Alcove 1956 Event 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 1956 Event 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 1955 Birthday Gloria Guida, Merano Italy, Miss Teenage Italy, 1974 1955 Birthday Bruno Zarrillo, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 1955 Event Antonio Segni forms government in Italy 1955 Event G. Gronchi elected president of Italy 1955 Birthday Ornella Muti, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife 1955 Birthday Daniele Masala, Italy, pentathelete, Olympics-1976 1955 Birthday Enrico Mentana, Milan Italy, Italian newscaster, RAI 1954 Birthday Tony Rosato, Naples Italy, comedian, SCTV, SNL, Amanda's 1954 Birthday Umberto Guidoni, Rome, Italy, PhD/astronaut, STS-75 1954 Birthday Lina Polito, born in Naples, Italy, actress, Love and Anarchy 1954 Event Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy 1954 Event Italy's Fanfani government resigns 1953 Birthday Arnella Flynn, Rome, Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter 1953 Birthday Eleonora Giorgi, Rome, Italy, actress, Nu de Femme, To Forget Venice 1953 Birthday Sara Simeoni, Italy, high jumper, 1980 Olympics gold 1953 Birthday Riccardo Chailly, born in Milan, Italy, conductor, West Berlin Symphony Orchestra 1953 Birthday Dalila di Lazzaro, Udine Italy, covergirl/model, Vogue 1952 Birthday Roberto Benigni, born in Manciano, Italy, actor, comedian, screenwriter, best known for movie, 'Life Is Beautiful', Academy-Award winner for Best Actor 1952 Birthday Isabella Rossellini, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Big Night, Blue Velvet 1952 Birthday Giuliano Ferrara, born in Rome, Italy, activist, atheist, communist turned Centre-Right and pro-life, admired Pope Benedict XVI 1951 Event United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via United Nations 1951 Birthday Silvia Dionisio, Rome, Italy, actress, Riavanti Marsh!, Amici Miei 1951 Birthday Daria Nicolodi, Florence Italy, actress, Terror, Shock 1951 Birthday Gustavo Thoeni, Italy, giant slalom, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1951 Birthday Rolando Thoeni, Italy, slalom 1972 Olympics bronze 1950 Birthday Loredana Berte, Milan Italy, singer/2nd ex wife of Bjorn Borg 1950 Birthday Franco Moschino, born in Abbiategrasso, Italy, fashion designer, created colorful, provocative designs poking fun at the fashion establishment 1948 Event Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy 1948 Event Italy adopts constitution 1947 Death Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78 1947 Birthday Klaus Dibiasi, Italy, platform diver, Gold Medals 1968, 1972, 1976 Olympics 1947 Event Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia 1947 Birthday Giorgio Chinaglia, soccer star, Lazio of Italy, New York Cosmos 1946 Birthday Giuseppe Sinopoli, Venice Italy, conductor and composer, Sunnyata 1946 Birthday Franco Malerba, Genoa Italy, astronaut, STS-46 1946 Event Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st President of Italy 1946 Event King Umberto II of Italy abdicates 1946 Birthday Stefania Sandrelli, born in Viareggio, Italy, actress, Afredo, Key 1946 Birthday Michele Placido, Foggia Italy, actor, La Lupa, Poliziotti 1946 Event Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy 1946 Event King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto 1946 Birthday Stefania Sandrelli, Viareggio Italy, actress, Lie, Conformist, 1900 1945 Event German Army in Italy surrenders 1945 Event Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed 1945 Death Bernito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), tried and shot 1945 Event U.S. troops in Italy cross river Po 1945 Event Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360 1945 Event Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy 1944 Event Nazi murders in Marzabotto, Italy (SS-major Reder) 1944 Birthday Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991 1944 Event Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie," Italy 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy 1944 Event British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy 1944 Event U.S. troops occupy Pisa, Italy 1944 Event Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy 1944 Event Allied breakthrough in Italy 1944 Event British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy 1944 Event British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy 1944 Event German defense line in Italy collapsed 1944 Event Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy 1944 Event CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy 1944 Event Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes 1944 Event Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy 1944 Event Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy 1944 Event Bombing and shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins 1944 Event German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy 1944 Event Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy 1944 Event Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy 1944 Event During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy 1943 Event British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy 1943 Event Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins 1943 Event Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins 1943 Event Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany 1943 Event British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy 1943 Event Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy 1943 Event General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II 1943 Event British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy 1943 Birthday Giuseppi Gentile, Italy, triple jumper 1968 Olympics bronze 1943 Event British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) 1943 Event Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II 1943 Event 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission, over Italy 1943 Event Anti fascist strikes in Italy 1943 Birthday Mauro Checcoli, Italy, 3 day equestrian, won Olympic gold in 1964 1943 Event Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach 1942 Event Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy 1942 Event Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy 1942 Birthday Giancarlo Giannini, La Spezia Italy, actor, Seduction of Mimi 1942 Birthday Giancarlo Giannini, born in Spezia, Italy,actor, New York Stories, Sensual Man 1942 Birthday Giacomo Agostini, born in Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion 1942 Birthday Maurizio Pollini, Milan Italy, pianist 1941 Event Dutch government in London declares war on Italy 1941 Event Germany and Italy declare war on US 1941 Event China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy 1941 Birthday Marina Ripa, Rome, Italy, countess/writer, My First 40 Years 1941 Birthday Mariangela Melato, Milan Italy, actress, Flash Gordon, Summer Night 1941 Birthday Riccardo Muti, born in Napoli, Italy, conductor, Philadelphia Orchestra 1941 Event Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II 1941 Birthday Terence Hill, born in Venice, Italy, actor, Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity 1941 Event Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy 1941 Birthday Franco Nones, Italy, 30K cross country skier, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics 1940 Event Greece successfully resists Italy's attack 1940 Event Nazi-Germany, Italy and Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis) 1940 Event France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II 1940 Event Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta 1940 Event Italy declares war on France and Britain during WW II 1940 Birthday Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma, Italy, director, 1900, Last Emperor 1940 Birthday Giorgio Moroder, born in Ortisei, Italy, composer, Let it Ride, Cat People, Top Gun 1940 Birthday Ira von Furstenberg, Virginia Caroline, Rome, Italy, Princess, Monaco 1940 Event Italy annexes Albania 1940 Birthday Bernardo Bertolucci, born in Parma, Italy, director, Last Tango in Paris 1939 Birthday Sandro Lopopolia, Italy, lightweight boxer, Silver Medal 1960 Olympics 1939 Birthday Rosanna Schiaffino, Genoa Italy, actress, Minotaur, Mazzabubu 1939 Birthday Carmelo Bossi, Italy, light middleweight boxer 1960 Olympics silver 1939 Event Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis 1939 Event Italy invades Albania 1938 Birthday Leonardo Boff, Italy, Brazilian Catholic theologian 1938 Event Italy passes their own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws 1938 Birthday Pupi Avati, Bologna Italy, director, Festival, Bix, Impiegati 1938 Event Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School 1938 Event Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris 1937 Event Italy withdraws from League of Nations 1937 Birthday Virna Lisi, Italy, actress, Assault on a Queen, Bluebeard 1937 Event Italy and Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade) 1937 Birthday Liliana Cavani, Bologna Italy, director, Berlin Affair 1936 Event Germany and Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco 1936 Event Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis" 1936 Birthday Carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina 1936 Event League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy 1936 Event Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy 1936 Birthday Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italy, singer and actress, Cinderfella 1936 Event Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia) 1936 Event Italy, Austria and Hungary sign Pact of Rome 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 1935 Birthday Luciano Pavarotti, born in Italy, Italian operatic tenor 1935 Event Italy invades Ethiopia 1935 Birthday Abdon Pamich, Italy, 50K walker 1964 Olympic gold 1935 Birthday Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano, Madame Butterfly 1935 Birthday Renata Scotto, born in Savona, Italy, singer, soprano, performed La Traviata at age 18, received 15 curtain calls performing Walter in La Wally at La Scala, 1953, directs opera and teaches at her opera academy in Italy, New York 1934 Birthday Giorgio Armani, born in Milan, Italy, fashion designer, American Gigolo 1934 Event Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome 1934 Birthday Gia Scala, born in Italy, actress in Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water 1934 Birthday Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier, 1983-87 1934 Birthday Aldo Ceccato, born in Milan, Italy, conductor, Detroit Symphony Orchestra 1973 - 1977 1933 Birthday Claudio Abbado, Milan Italy, composer and conductor, London Symph-1982 1933 Event Italy and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement 1933 Birthday Gian Maria Volonte, born in Milan Italy, actor, Fistful of Dollars 1932 Birthday Valentino, born in Milan, Italy, fashion designer, Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis 1932 Birthday Elsa Martinelli, Grosseto Italy, actress, Indian Fighter 1932 Birthday Marisa Pavan, born in Cagliari, Italy, actress, Solomon and Sheba, Rose Tattoo 1932 Birthday Pier Angeli, born in Italy, Sodom and Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge 1932 Birthday Valentino [Garavani], Milan Italy, fashion designer 1931 Birthday Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, Italy, downhill skier 1952 Olympics bronze 1931 Birthday Monica Vitti, Ceciarelli, Rome, Italy, actress, Tigers in Lipstick 1931 Birthday Lucianna Paluzzi, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Five Fingers, Thunderball 1931 Birthday Gustav Thoni, Italy, skiier, World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75 1931 Birthday Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess 1930 Event Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America 1930 Birthday Ugo Gregoretti, Rome, Italy, actor, Rogopag, Common Sense of Modesty 1930 Event Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed 1930 Birthday Silvana Mangano, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Death in Venice, Barabbas 1930 Birthday Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris, France, poet, of Italian origin, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, wrote prose in English, French and Italian, major work, 'Spazi metrici' 1929 Birthday Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy, 1985- 1929 Birthday Elio Petri, Italy, director, Property is no theft 1928 Birthday Ennio Morricone, Rome, Italy, composer/musician 1928 Birthday Buff Cobb, Florence Italy, actress, Masquerade Party 1928 Death Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies 1928 Event Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy 1928 Event Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy 1928 Event Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) 1928 Birthday Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, Prime Minister of Italy, 1988 - 1989 1928 Birthday Eugene Monti, Italy, bobsledder, Olympic-2 golds-1968 1928 Birthday Domenico Modugno, Italy, rocker, Polignano A Mare 1927 Birthday Boris Porena, born in Rome, Italy, Italian composer, didactical expert, studied under Goffredo Petrassi, influenced by neoclassical poetics, wrote texts about music including Musica-Societa which includes social and political analysis 1927 Birthday Gianna Maria Canale, Reggio Calabria Italy, actress, Go For Broke 1927 Birthday Gina Lollobrigida, born in Subiaco, Italy, actress, Trapeze, Falcon Crest 1927 Birthday Lucio Fulci, born in Rome, Italy, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, Zombi 2 and The Beyond, other genres, including giallo, western, comedy 1927 Birthday Ettore Manni, Rome, Italy, actor, Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell 1927 Event Italy and U.S. anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences 1927 Event Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank 1926 Event Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy 1926 Event Facist national symbol elevated in Italy 1926 Birthday Hans Liebold, Germany, auto racer, Nardo, Italy 1926 Event Italy signs treaty with Yemen 1926 Birthday Erico Menczer, Fiume, Italy, cinematographer, Chosen, Miranda 1926 Event Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions 1926 Birthday Cesare Danova, born in Rome, Italy, actor, Garrison's Gorillas 1925 Event Italy, Britain and Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy) 1925 Event U.S. and Italy sign peace accord about war debts 1925 Birthday Luciano Berio, born in Oneglia, Italy, composer, Chemins 1925 Birthday Silvana Pampanini, Rome, Italy, actress, Day in Court, Island Sinner 1925 Birthday Enzo Stuarti, born in Italy, singer, Yesterday 1925 Birthday Valentina Cortesa, Milan Italy, actress, Kidnap Syndicate 1924 Birthday Marcello Mastroianni, Rome, Italy, actor, 8, La Dolce Vita 1924 Event Italy signs treaty of Rapallo 1924 Birthday Nino Bibbia, Italy, bobsled 1948 Olympics gold 1924 Event Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament 1924 Event South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka) 1924 Birthday Luigi Nono, Venice Italy, composer, Canonic Variations 1924 Event Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy 1923 Birthday Og Mandino, born in Italy, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine 1923 Event All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy 1923 Birthday Franco Corelli, born in Anconia, Italy, tenor, Don Jose-Carmen 1923 Birthday Franco Zeffirelli, Florence Italy, director, Romeo and Juliet 1923 Birthday Cesare Siepi, Milan Italy, basso, New York Metropolitan Opera 1923 Event Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy 1923 Event Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini 1922 Birthday Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director, Lucky Luciano 1922 Event Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy 1922 Event Mussolini forms government in Italy 1922 Event Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government 1922 Birthday Vittorio Gassman, born in Genoa, Italy, actor, War and Peace 1922 Event Italy's general strike against fascist violence 1922 Birthday Adolfo Celi, born in Sicily, Italy, director, Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue 1922 Event German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized 1922 Birthday Ugo Tognazzi, born in Cremona, Italy, actor and director, La Cage Aux Folles 1922 Birthday Pier Paolo Pasolini, born in Bologna, Italy, director, Teorema, Pigsty 1922 Event U.S., U.K., France, Italy and Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation 1922 Birthday Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor, All in the Family, LA Law 1922 Birthday Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano 1921 Event Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini 1921 Birthday Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress, Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man 1921 Birthday Mary Douglas, born in San Remo, Italy, British anthropologist, wrote about symbolism, human culture 1920 Event Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna Italy 1920 Event Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige) 1920 Birthday Franco Pandolfini, Italy, water polo 1948 Olympics gold 1920 Birthday Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier 1952 Olympics gold 1920 Event 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell 1920 Birthday Giulietta Masina, Italy, actress, La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik 1920 Birthday Federico Fellini, born in Rimini, Italy, dir, 8, Satyricon, La Dolce Vita 1920 Birthday Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Brescia Italy, pianist 1919 Birthday John Secondari, Rome, Italy, newscaster, Open Hearing 1919 Event Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation 1919 Birthday Dino De Laurentiis, Torre Annunziata Italy, producer, King Kong 1919 Birthday Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer, Survival in Aushchwitz 1919 Birthday Lino Ventura, born in Parma, Italy, actor, Happy New Year 1919 Event Nitti government forms in Italy 1919 Birthday Alberto Sordi, born in Rome, Italy, actor, Miser, Taxi Driver in New York 1919 Birthday Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italy, epee 1952 Olympics gold 1919 Event Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan, Italy 1919 Birthday Giulio Andreotti, 7 x premier, Italy 1918 Birthday Jose Greco, Italy, flamenco dancer, Holiday for Lovers 1917 Event Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey 1917 Birthday Patricia Burke, born in Milan, Italy, actress, Forbidden 1917 Event Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy 1916 Birthday Guido Turchi, Rome, Italy, composer, Invettiva 1916 Birthday Andrea Checchi, Firenze Italy, actress, Attack and Retreat 1916 Birthday Rossano Brazzi, Bolognia Italy, actor and director, Antaeus-Survivors 1916 Event Italy declares war against Germany during WW I 1916 Birthday Elsa Morante, Italy, writer, L'isola di Arturo 1916 Event Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front 1916 Birthday Raf Vallone, Tropea Italy, actor, El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon 1915 Birthday Dario Mangiarotti, Italy, fencing, gold, 2 silver, Olympic-1948, 52 1915 Event Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria 1915 Event Italy declares war on Turkey 1915 Birthday Mariano Rumor, premier Italy 1915 Event Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary 1915 Event Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I 1915 Event Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany 1915 Event Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France and Russia 1915 Event Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800 1914 Event Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party 1914 Birthday Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor and director, Divorce Italian Style 1914 Birthday Tullio Pandolfini, Italy, water polo 1948 Olympics gold 1914 Birthday Giorgio Almirante, born in Italy, fascist, member of parliament, 1948-87, 1914 Birthday Fiorenzo Marini, born in Italy, epee, 1960 Olympics gold 1913 Birthday Carlo Ponti, Milan Italy, married to Sophia Loren/director, 2 Women 1913 Birthday Licia Albanese, born in Bari, Italy, operatic soprano, New York Met Opera 1912 Birthday Michelangelo Antonioni, born in Ferrara, Italy, Italian modernist film director, 'Blow-up', 'Red Desert' 1911 Birthday Nino Rota, Milan Italy, composer, Torquemada 1911 Event New York receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy 1911 Event Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli and Cyrenaica 1911 Event Italy declares war on Turkey 1911 Event Italy declares war on Turkey 1911 Birthday Gian Carlo Menotti, born in Italy, composer, librettist, Pulitzer Prize winner 1910 Event 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy) 1909 Event Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands 1908 Event Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die 1908 Event Messina, Italy struck by an earthquake (nearly 80,000 died) 1908 Birthday Giacomo Manzu, Italy, sculptor, St. Peter, Laurenskerk, Lenin Prize 1908 Event Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay and Montgomery 1908 Birthday Amintore Fanfani, premier of Italy 1908 Birthday George Dolenz, Trieste Italy, actor, Count of Monte Cristo 1907 Birthday Amedeo Nazzari, Cagliari Sardinia Italy, actor, Lure of Sila 1907 Birthday Renzo Cesana, Rome, Italy, TV host, First Date, Continental 1907 Event Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF 1906 Birthday Andreina Pagnani, Rome, Italy, actress, Il Commandante 1906 Birthday Luchino Visconti, born in Milan, Italy, director, Damned, Death in Venice 1906 Event Great Britain, France and Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia 1906 Birthday Roberto Rossellini, Rome, Italy, director, Open City 1905 Birthday Nino Martini, Verona Italy, actor, Here's to Romance 1905 Birthday Annunzio Mantovani, born in Venice, Italy, orchestra leader, Mantovani 1905 Birthday Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic, Byron in Italy 1905 Birthday Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki 1904 Event Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors 1904 Birthday Umberto II, van Piemonte, king of Italy, 1946 1904 Birthday Goffredo Petrassi, born in Zagarolo, Italy, composer, Beatitudines 1904 Birthday Fosco Giachetti, born in Livorno, Italy, actor, Wastrel, We the Living 1902 Birthday Joe Adonis, Italy, American crime-syndicate boss in New York and New Jersey 1902 Birthday Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist, Of Fear and Freedom 1902 Birthday Franco Giorgetti, Italy, cyclist, Gold Medal 1920 Olympics 1902 Birthday Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor, 2 Women 1901 Birthday Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, bicycle manufacturer, Fiat 1901 Birthday Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet, critic and translator Nobel 1959 1901 Birthday Gino Cervi, Bologna Italy, actor, Les Miserables, Naked Maja 1901 Birthday Mario Scelba, premier Italy, 1954-55 1900 Event General Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy 1900 Event World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens 1900 Birthday Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician, Bread and Wine 1898 Birthday Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy, 1964-71 1898 Birthday Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer, Ferrari 1898 Birthday Toto, Antonio de Curtis, Naples Italy, actor, Motorizzate, Noi Duri 1897 Birthday Frank Capra, Italy, director, Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace 1896 Event Abyssinia and Italy sign peace treaty 1896 Birthday Eugenio Montale, born in Italy, poet/translator, Xenia-Nobel 1975 1896 Birthday Sandro Pertini, president Italy 1896 Birthday Denise Grey, Edouardine Verthuy, Turin Italy, actress, Julietta 1895 Birthday Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, 1925-32 1895 Birthday Rudolph Valentino, Castellaneta, Italy, sheik/actor, Eagle 1895 Birthday Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze, Florence, Italy, composer 1894 Birthday Tullio Carminati, Zara Dalmatia Italy, actor, Roman Holiday 1893 Birthday Carlo Emilio Gadda, born in Milan, Italy, writer, poet, innovator of pre-war Italian language with dialects, jargon, wordplay 1893 Birthday Palmiro Togliatti, founder, Communist Party of Italy 1892 Event Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Austria forms 1892 Birthday Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy, bass singer, South Pacific, RCA Victor Show 1892 Birthday Giorgio Cesana, born in Italy, coxswain, Olympics gold 1906 1892 Birthday Victor de Sabata, born in Trieste, Italy, conductor and composer, Il Macigno 1892 Birthday Frank Puglia, born in Sicily, Italy, actor, Black Orchid, Jungle Book 1892 Birthday Francesca Bertini, Florence Italy, actress, Odette, Assunta Spina 1891 Birthday Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs, 1946-47 1891 Birthday Antonio Segni, premier/president, Italy 1890 Birthday Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor, Enzo-La Gioconde 1889 Birthday Edward Ciannelli, Ischia Italy, actor, You Can't Escape Forever 1889 Event Abyssinian emperor Menelik II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale 1889 Birthday Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer, La Rondine 1888 Event Italy and Spain sign military covenant 1888 Birthday Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general, WW I/Italy/Netherland 1887 Event Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great Britain signs military treaty of Balkan 1887 Birthday Eduardo Ciannelli, Italy, actor, Waldo-Johnny Staccato 1887 Birthday Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy 1887 Birthday Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor, Brass Buttons, Victory 1887 Event Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy 1885 Birthday George S Patton, U.S. general, Sicily/Italy/Normandy, "Old Blood and Guts" 1885 Birthday Giovanni Martinelli, Montagnana Italy, opera singer, New York Met 1884 Event Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Birthday Amedeo Modigliani, born in Italy, painter/sculptor, Reclining Nude 1883 Event Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000 1883 Birthday Alfredo Casella, born in Turin, Italy, composer, La Giara 1883 Event Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary and Germany 1882 Birthday Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano, Cave of the Winds 1882 Event St. Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy opens 1882 Birthday Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italy, writer, La Voce, La Cultura Italiano 1881 Birthday John XXIII, Angelo Roncalli, Bergamo Italy, 261st pope, 1958-63 1881 Birthday Guy de Pourtales, Swiss/French writer, Nietzsche in Italy 1881 Birthday Giovanni Papini, Italy, writer, Il Diavolo 1880 Event Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed 1879 Birthday Ottorino Respighi, born in Bologna, Italy, composer, Pines of Rome 1878 Death Victor Emmanuel II, king of Sard (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies at 57 1876 Birthday Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Venice Italy, composer 1875 Birthday Grazia Deledda, Italy, novelist, Old Man of the Mtn-Nobel 1926 1875 Birthday Giovanni and Giacomo Tocci, Italy, siamese twins 1874 Birthday Guglielmo Marconi, born in Bologna, Italy, inventor, radio, Nobel 1909 1874 Birthday Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy, 1948-55 1873 Birthday Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor, Faust 1873 Birthday Luigi A, duke of the Abruzzes, Italy, explorer/climber, Mount St. Elias 1872 Death Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66 1871 Birthday Pietro Badoglio, Italy, general/Libya Governor, 1928 - 1933, Prime Minister of Italy, 1943 - 1944 1870 Event Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree 1870 Event Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital 1870 Birthday Maria Montessori, Italy, educator, spontaneous response 1869 Birthday Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy, 1900-46, Ethiopia 1867 Birthday Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer, 6 Characters-Nobel 1934 1867 Birthday Arturo Toscanini, born in Parma, Italy, temperamental conductor, NBC 1866 Event Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia 1866 Event Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy 1866 Event Italy declares war on Austria 1866 Birthday Ferruccio D M B Busoni, born in Italy, pianist, composer and conductor, Arlecchino 1866 Birthday Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher 1863 Birthday Gabriele D'Annunzio, born in Italy, writer and military hero, Intruder 1862 Event San Marino and Italy conclude treaty of friendship and cooperation 1861 Event Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed 1861 Event King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st king of Italy 1860 Event Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy 1860 Birthday Victor E Orlando, Italy's premier, 1917-19 1859 Birthday Elenora Duse, Italy, actress, Hedda Gabler 1858 Birthday Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy, opera composer, La Boheme, La Tosca 1858 Birthday Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo, Piemonte Italy, mathematician 1858 Birthday Giovanni Segantini, Italy, painter 1857 Event Earthquake in Naples, Italy 1857 Birthday Pius XI, Ambrogio DA Ratti, Italy, 259th Pope, 1922-39 1855 Event Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy 1853 Birthday Giacomo Puccini, Italy, composer 1852 Birthday Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer, Political Struggle in Italy 1844 Birthday King Umberto I, of Italy, 1878-1900 1843 Birthday Camillo Golgi, Italy, physician, cytologist, Nobel 1906 1843 Event Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy 1842 Birthday Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy, 1892..1921 1835 Birthday Giosue Carducci, born in Italy, poet, Nobel 1906 1835 Birthday Giovanni Schiaparelli, born in Italy, astronomer, discovered canals of Mars 1834 Event Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premieres 1834 Birthday Amilcare Ponchielli, Paderno Italy, composer, I Lituani 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 1833 Birthday Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italy, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize 1907 1828 Birthday Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, Voyage in Italy 1823 Death Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter, studied in Italy and painted for wealthy Parisians in Paris, influenced by Romanticism and Neoclassicism dies 1820 Birthday Florence Nightingale, Florence, Italy, nurse, Crimean War 1820 Birthday Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia, 1849-61, Italy, 1861-78 1815 Event Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo, Italy 1810 Birthday Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM 1807 Birthday Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter, Risorgimento, unified Italy 1805 Event Napoleon is crowned king of Italy 1803 Event Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy and Switzerland 1798 Event Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews 1796 Event Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy 1796 Event General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy 1796 Event Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians 1792 Birthday Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro, Italy, composer, Barber of Seville 1785 Birthday Alessandro Manzoni, born in Italy, poet and novelist, Betrothed 1783 Event Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy) 1778 Birthday Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis 1777 Birthday Filippo Traetta, Italy, composer/musicologist 1775 Event 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy) 1769 Event Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000 1768 Death Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France and Italy), dies 1768 Birthday Francis II, Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor, 1792-1806 1765 Birthday Gregory XVI, Bartolomeo A Cappellari/Mauro, Italy, Pope 1763 Birthday Samuel Rogers, English poet, Italy, a poem 1761 Birthday Pius VIII, Francesco S Castiglioni, Italy, 253rd Pope, 1829-30 1760 Birthday Leo XII, Annibale Sermattei, Italy, Pope, 1823-29 1758 Birthday Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, born in France, painter, studied in Italy and painted for wealthy Parisians in Paris, influenced by Romanticism and Neoclassicism 1750 Birthday Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer, Tatare 1743 Birthday Alessandro Cagliostro, Palermo Italy, adventurer 1743 Birthday Count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist 1740 Birthday Giambattista Bodoni, Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer, Bodoni 1737 Death Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in Cremona Italy at 93 1737 Event Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy 1729 Birthday Lazzaro Spallanzani, Modena Italy, physiologist 1718 Birthday Maria G Agnesi, Italy mathematician curves= xy=a, a-y 1717 Birthday Pius VI, Giovanni A Braschi, Italy, Pope, 1775 - 1799 1714 Birthday Niccolo Jommelli, Italy, composer 1707 Birthday Carlo Goldoni, Italy, lawyer/playwright, Belisario, Love of 3 Oranges 1705 Birthday Farinelli, Carlo Broschi, Andria Italy, castrato 1692 Birthday Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet 1692 Birthday Giuseppe Tartini, born in Italy, violinist and composer, Trillo del Diavolo 1685 Birthday Domenico Scarlatti, Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist 1675 Birthday Benedict XIV, Prospero L Lambertini, Italy, Pope, 1740-58 1669 Event Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1660 Birthday Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer, Tigrane 1658 Birthday Giuseppe Torelli, Italy, composer, Concert Grossi op 8 1655 Birthday Innocent XIII, Michelangiolo dei Conti, Italy, 244th Pope, 1721-24 1655 Birthday Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder 1653 Birthday Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist and composer, Concerto Grossi 1652 Birthday Clement XII, Lorenzo Corsini, Italy, Pope, 1730 - 1740 1649 Birthday Clement XI, Giovanni F Albani, Italy, Pope, 1700-21 1649 Birthday Benedict XIII, Pierfrancesco Orsini, Italy, 245th pope, 1724 - 1730 1642 Death Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy 1632 Birthday Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer, Bellerophen 1632 Birthday Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer 1631 Event Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages and kills 4,000 1611 Birthday Innocent XI, Benedetto Odescalchi, Italy, 240th Pope, 1676-89 1610 Birthday Alexander VIII, Pietro Ottoboni, Italy, lawyer/Pope, 1689 - 1691 1600 Birthday Clement IX, Giulio Rospigliosi, Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope, 1667-69 1599 Birthday Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi, Siena Italy, pope, 1655-67 1598 Birthday Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor, St. Teresa in Ecstasy 1598 Event Genoa Italy expels Jews 1598 Event Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy 1596 Birthday Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker, Stradivari and Guarneri 1590 Birthday Clement X, Emilio Altieri, Italy, Pope, 1670 - 1676 1582 Event Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries 1576 Birthday Enrico C Davila, Padua Italy, writer, Storia delguerre civili Francia 1573 Birthday Caravaggio, Italy, painter 1571 Event Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet 1567 Event Genoa Italy expels Jews 1567 Birthday Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer, L'Orfeo 1564 Birthday Galileo Galilei, born in Pisa, Italy, astronomer and physicist 1562 Death Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist, dies 1561 Birthday Santorio Sanctorius, born in Italy, physician 1553 Birthday Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician, De Medocoma Aegyptorum 1552 Birthday Paul V, Camillo Borghese, Italy, Pope, 1605 - 1621 1550 Event Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy 1544 Birthday Torquato Tasso, born in Italy, Renaissance poet, Aminta, Apologia 1537 Birthday Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician, De Formato Foetu 1536 Birthday Clement VIII, Ippolito Aldofireini, Fano Italy, Pope, 1592-1605 1535 Birthday Leo XI, Alessandro O de' Medici, Italy, Pope, 1605 1526 Event Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy and Flanders 1511 Birthday Giorgio Vasari, Italy, painter/art historian, Vasari's Lives 1510 Death Georges d'Amboise, French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy, dies at 49 1509 Event Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy 1509 Event Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy 1501 Birthday Girolamo Cardano, born in Italy, mathematician and astrologer, Ars Magna-1545 1501 Birthday Marcellus II, Marcello Cervini, Italy, humanist/Pope, 1555, 22 days 1498 Event Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy 1494 Event Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy 1494 Birthday Jacopo Pontormo II, Italy, painter, Sepulture of Christ 1492 Birthday Pietro Aretino, born in Arezzo, Italy, Italian author, poet and playwright 1486 Birthday Andrea del Sarto, Italy, painter, Recollets 1484 Birthday Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar, On the Subtlety of Things 1483 Birthday Raphael, born in Urbino, Italy, painter, School of Athens 1478 Birthday Clement VII, Giulio de' Medici, Italy, Pope, 1523-34 1475 Birthday Leo X, Giovanni de' Medici, Italy, Pope, 1513 - 1521 1474 Birthday Ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet, Orlando Furioso 1470 Birthday Charles VIII, King of France, 1483-98, invaded Italy 1469 Birthday Niccolo Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer, Prince 1463 Birthday Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist 1452 Birthday Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary 1449 Birthday Domenico Ghirlandajo, Italy, renaissance painter 1432 Birthday Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet, Morgante 1417 Birthday Paul II, Pietro Barbo, Italy, Pope, 1464 - 1471 1404 Birthday Leon Battista Alberti, born in Genoa, Italy, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura' 1400 Birthday Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor, Madonna of Rose Garden 1397 Birthday Nicholas V, Tommaso Parentucelli, Italy, Pope, 1447-55 1382 Event Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy 1380 Birthday Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italy, humanist 1377 Event Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy 1304 Birthday Francesco Petrarch, Italy, poet, Italia Mia 1223 Event St. Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy) 1208 Event St. Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy 1194 Birthday Frederick II, Iesi Italy, German Emperor, 1212-1250, King of Sicily 1158 Event Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy 1026 Event Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy 1004 Event Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy 1004 Event Henry II the Saint crowned as king of Italy 966 Death Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963) 951 Event Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy 950 Death Lotharius, King of Italy (947-50), dies 947 Death Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies 924 Death Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered 876 Event Charles becomes king of Italy 875 Death Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50 818 Death Bernhard I, King of Italy, dies 810 Death Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies (birth date unknown) 554 Event Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines military governor in Italy 526 Death Theodorik the Great, King of Italy, dies 493 Event Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy 493 Death Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies 452 Event Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
