History of Italy

Roman Empire was founded

27 BCE

The Roman Empire was founded by Augustus Caesar in 27 BC.

Timline of Italy

Period: 27 BCE to Dec 25, 2000

Events in italy

Period: 27 BCE to Dec 25, 2000

The Italian wars started

Dec 24, 1494

The italian wars was a series of wars in Italy that caused a great negative impact on italy.

During the Napoleonic era, Italy was a client state of the French republic.

Nov 9, 1799

Italy was being helped by the French Republic with supplies in exchange of italy being on the French Republic's side.

Napoleon Bonaparte occupies Rome

Dec 24, 1809

Exiles Pope Pius VII to Savona and then to France, and takes the Papal States' art collections to the Louvre

A revolt in Piedmont, led by Annibale Santorre di Rossi de Pomarolo

Dec 24, 1821

Takes place in an attempt to remove the Austrians from Italy and unify the Italian territories under the House of Savoy.

The political movement Young Italy is formed by activist Giuseppe Mazzini

Dec 24, 1831

promoting insurrection in Italian states and Austrian lands to help unify Italy

Although formerly aligned with Germany and Austria-Hungary, Italy enters World War I on the side of the Anglo-French Allies

Dec 24, 1915

After the war, Italy expands his borders well beyond Trento and Trieste, including Bolzano/Bozen and Fiume/Rijeka

Nazi troops occupy Northern Italy

Dec 24, 1943

release Mussolini from prison and have him leading the puppet Italian Social Republic. Anglo-American troops fight in the following two years to free the whole peninsula. The Italian Resistance play a growing role in harassing German occupation forces