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Born as Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini. In Predappio, Italy.
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Benito grew up with very harsh disipline and hardly any affection
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Mussolini became a member of the socialist party
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The Fasci Italiani di Combattimento (League of Combat) is founded by Benito Mussolini and other war veterans in Milan. It is named for the fasces, an ancient symbol of Roman power.
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Not long after the founding meeting of his fascist party, a group of Benito Mussolini's friends attack the Milan offices of a Socialist newspaper and destroy the presses.
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The Fascist Party congress in Naples, Italy, ends. There are no acts of violence at this meeting of fascists, but Benito Mussolini does vow to assume control of the government soon.
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Benito Mussolini leads his Blackshirts on Rome so he can seize power. He succeeds, creating the world's first fascist government.
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Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister, Minister of Interior, and Foreign Minister of the Italian government. Mussolini arrived in Rome yesterday and was invited by King Victor Emanuel III to form a new cabinet.
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for the first time in Venice, Italy. The two fascist leaders meet and talk one-on-one for several hours.
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Benito Mussolini issues an official declaration that there is no "Jewish Problem" in Italy and the Fascist government isn't considering any special anti-Semitic measures.
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Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini in Rome where they start dividing up Europe. In exchange for a free hand with Czechoslovakia, Hitler lets Mussolini keep control over South Tyrol.
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Italy's Fascist Party bans Jews from joining. This is a significant change in fascist policy under Mussolini which is only made to please Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in Germany.
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Benito Mussolini is summoned by King Victor Emmanuel III, who informs the fascist dictator that he is being replaced by Marshal Pietro Badoglio as Prime Minister of Italy.
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The Italian resistance executes Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci by firing squad. Mussolini and Petacci had been trying to flee to Switzerland and from there eventually to Spain when they were captured the previous day.
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the body of former Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini is stolen from an unmarked grave by neo-fascist politician Domenico Leccisi. Only a few people were supposed to know the exact location of the grave.
