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
