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Italy signs Triple Alliance
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Italy: Build up to WWI
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General Act of Berlin is signed
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Prime Minister Luigi Pelloux reforms his government and policies
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Giovanni Giolitti is appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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First Italo-Ethiopian War begins
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Italy suffers major defeat at Battle of Adwa
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Guglielmo Marconi files patent for wireless cable
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Public Safety Bill introduced to Parliament
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Prime Minister Luigi Pelloux totally reforms government
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Fiat S.p.A is founded and first Italian car is produced
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Eight Nation Alliance troops are moved to Beijing
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Luigi Pelloux resigns and Guiseppi Saracco takes office of Prime Minister
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King Umberto I is assassinated and Victor Emmanuel III becomes king
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Giuseppe Saracco resigns and Giuseppe Zanardelli becomes Prime Minister
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Italy gains concession in Tientsin from Imperial China
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Guglielo Marconi receives first transatlantic radio signal
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Genoa wins Italian Football Championship
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Italy and France sign Franco-Italian agreement
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The Venezuela Crisis, a naval blockade by Britain, Italy, and Germany
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Richard Zsigmondy develops the ultramicroscope
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European blockade is lifted ending the Venezuela Crisis
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Giuseppe Zanardelli resigns as Prime Minister and Giovanni Giolitti takes office
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Itala Car Company is founded
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Italy passes first law on mental health
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King Emmanuel III's first son, Umberto II, is born
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The first Giro de Lombardia, a cycling race, occurs for the first time
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Giovanni Giolitti resigns as prime minister and Tommaso Tittoni takes office
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Tommaso Tittoni resigns as prime minister and Alessandro Fortis takes office
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Calabria Earthquake
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Alessandro Fortis resigns as prime minister and Sidney Sonnino takes office
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The first of the two Simplon Tunnels were opened
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Sidney Sinnino resigns as prime minister and Giovanni Giolitti takes office
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The Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Italy's largest publishing company, is founded
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Italy wins the Peking to Paris motor race
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First race of Milan-San Remo, a cycle race, occurs
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Corriere dei Piccoli, the first Italian magazine to regularly publish cartoons, goes to print
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Italian National Olympic Committee is created
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Messina earthquake and tsunami
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Futurist Manifesto is published
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The cycle race, Giro dell'Emilia, occurs for the first time
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Giovanni Giolitti resigns as prime minister and Sidney Sonnino takes office
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The Italian Nationalist Association is established
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Sidney Sonnino resigns as prime minister and Luigi Luzzatti takes office
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Alpha Romeo S.p.A. is founded
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Luigi Luzzatti resigns as prime minister and Giovanni Giolitti takes office
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Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire starting the Italo-Turkish war
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The first aerial bomb ever is dropped on the Ottoman Empire
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Italy takes Libya and Dodecanese islands from the Ottoman Empire
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All literate males over 21 are granted suffrage
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Italy wins Italo-Turkish war with First Treaty of Laussane
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Gentiloni Pact
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Bibliotheca Hertziana- Max Planck Institute of Art History is opened in Rome
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Giovanni Giolitti resigns as prime minister and Antonio Salandra takes office
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Red Week
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Benito Mussolini establishes Il Popolo d'Italia, a newspaper
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Avezzano earthquake
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Italy signs London Pact
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Italy declares war against Germany and Austria-Hungary and enters WWI
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World War I (Italy)
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Fifth Battle of the Isonzo
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Battle of Asiago
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Antonio Salandra resigns as Prime Minster and Paola Boselli takes office
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Ninth Battle of the Isonzo
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Bienno Rosso begins
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Tenth Battle of the Isonzo
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Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo
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Paola Boselli resigns as Prime Minister and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando takes office
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Battle of Caporetto
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Battle of Piave River
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Flight over Vienna
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Battle of Vittorio Veneto
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Vittorio Emanuele Orlando resigns as Prime Minister and Francesco Saverio Nitti takes office
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Fascist Manifesto
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The Treaty of Versailles
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Verona Crash
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Bienno Rosso
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San Remo Conference
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Francesco Saverio Nitti resigns as Prime Minister and Giovanni Giolitti takes office
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600,000 Italian workers seize and occupy their factories
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Treaty of Rapallo
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Gucci was founded
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Italian Communist Party is founded
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Giovanni Giolitti resigns as Prme Minister and Ivanoe Bonomi takes office
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Fascist Party of Italy is founded
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Ivanoe Bonomi resigns as Prime Minister and Luigi Facta takes office
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Genoa Conference
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Fascist Congress in Naples
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The March on Rome
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Luigi Facta is removed from office and Mussolini is sworn in as Prime Minister
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Treaty of Lausanne
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Acerbo Law
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Treaty of Rome
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Battle for Grain
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Battle for the Lira confirmed in Pessaro Speech
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Battle for Land is confirmed in Pesaro Speech
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Labour Charter of 1927
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Kellogg–Briand Pact
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Period: to
Great Depression in Italy
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Lateran Treaty is signed
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Irpinia Earthquake
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Senigallia Earthquake
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Non Abbiamo Bisogno
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Convention between Italy and Turkey
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Four Power Pact
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Italy Hosts the FIFA World Cup
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Italy wins the FIFA World Cup
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Italian-Ethiopian War
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Italy Invades Ethiopia
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Italy wins the second Ethiopian War
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Period: to
Italian Involvement in Spanish Civil War
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Italy Signs Anti-Comintern Pact
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Easter Pact
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Manifesto of Race
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Munich Agreement
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Pact of Steel
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Italian Declaration of War
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Italy in WWII
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Italy successfully conquers British Somaliland
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Italian attempted invasion of Egypt
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Tripartite Pact
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Greco-Italian War begins
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Battle of the Duisburg Convoy
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Battle of Gondar
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Raid on Alexandria
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Second Battle of Sirte
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Battle of Skerki Bank
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Raid on Algiers
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Mussolini is removed from ruling position
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Allied Invasion of Italy
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Armistice between Italy and Allied forces
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Mussolini establishes the Salo Republic, a fascist state
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Air Raid on Bari
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Operation Shingle
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Operation Diadem
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Allies win Battle of Monte Cassino
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Allies win the Battle of Argenta Gap
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Allies win Battle of Bologna
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Germany and Italy surrender to the Allies
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Constitutional Referendum
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Paris Peace Treaties are signed
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Republican Constitution was approved
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Christian Democrats achieve power in government by landslide
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Superga Air Disaster
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The Korean War begins
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Period: to
Italian Economic Miracle
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The United Socialist Party joined with the Italian Socialist Workers Party forming the Italian Democratic Socialist Party
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Marshall Plan Ends
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Italy is defeated by the US in the finals for the Davis Cup
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BOAC Flight 781 crashes
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Italy becomes a member of the United Nations
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Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community
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Euratom Treaty- treaty that established European atomic energy community
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British European Airways Flight 142 crashes en route to Naples
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Urbino European Law Seminar is inaugurated
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Via Canosa 7 building collapse
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Opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics hosted in Rome
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Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations
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Fiumarella rail disaster
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Castel Bolognese train disaster
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Voghera train crash
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Ciaculli Masacre
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Flaminio Costa v ENEL
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TWA Flight 800 crashes during takeoff
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Vittorio Adorni wins Giro d'Italia
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Flood of the Arno River
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Belice earthquake
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Battle of Valle Giulia
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The political movement Hot Autumn begins
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Piazza Fontana bombing