Italy Build up to WWI

  • Italy signs Triple Alliance

  • Period: to

    Italy: Build up to WWI

  • General Act of Berlin is signed

  • Prime Minister Luigi Pelloux reforms his government and policies

  • Giovanni Giolitti is appointed Prime Minister of Italy

  • First Italo-Ethiopian War begins

  • Italy suffers major defeat at Battle of Adwa

  • Guglielmo Marconi files patent for wireless cable

  • Public Safety Bill introduced to Parliament

  • Prime Minister Luigi Pelloux totally reforms government

  • Fiat S.p.A is founded and first Italian car is produced

  • Eight Nation Alliance troops are moved to Beijing

  • Luigi Pelloux resigns and Guiseppi Saracco takes office of Prime Minister

  • King Umberto I is assassinated and Victor Emmanuel III becomes king

  • Giuseppe Saracco resigns and Giuseppe Zanardelli becomes Prime Minister

  • Italy gains concession in Tientsin from Imperial China

  • Guglielo Marconi receives first transatlantic radio signal

  • Genoa wins Italian Football Championship

  • Italy and France sign Franco-Italian agreement

  • The Venezuela Crisis, a naval blockade by Britain, Italy, and Germany

  • Richard Zsigmondy develops the ultramicroscope

  • European blockade is lifted ending the Venezuela Crisis

  • Giuseppe Zanardelli resigns as Prime Minister and Giovanni Giolitti takes office

  • Itala Car Company is founded

  • Italy passes first law on mental health

  • King Emmanuel III's first son, Umberto II, is born

  • The first Giro de Lombardia, a cycling race, occurs for the first time

  • Giovanni Giolitti resigns as prime minister and Tommaso Tittoni takes office

  • Tommaso Tittoni resigns as prime minister and Alessandro Fortis takes office

  • Calabria Earthquake

  • Alessandro Fortis resigns as prime minister and Sidney Sonnino takes office

  • The first of the two Simplon Tunnels were opened

  • Sidney Sinnino resigns as prime minister and Giovanni Giolitti takes office

  • The Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Italy's largest publishing company, is founded

  • Italy wins the Peking to Paris motor race

  • First race of Milan-San Remo, a cycle race, occurs

  • Corriere dei Piccoli, the first Italian magazine to regularly publish cartoons, goes to print

  • Italian National Olympic Committee is created

  • Messina earthquake and tsunami

  • Futurist Manifesto is published

  • The cycle race, Giro dell'Emilia, occurs for the first time

  • Giovanni Giolitti resigns as prime minister and Sidney Sonnino takes office

  • The Italian Nationalist Association is established

  • Sidney Sonnino resigns as prime minister and Luigi Luzzatti takes office

  • Alpha Romeo S.p.A. is founded

  • Luigi Luzzatti resigns as prime minister and Giovanni Giolitti takes office

  • Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire starting the Italo-Turkish war

  • The first aerial bomb ever is dropped on the Ottoman Empire

  • Italy takes Libya and Dodecanese islands from the Ottoman Empire

  • All literate males over 21 are granted suffrage

  • Italy wins Italo-Turkish war with First Treaty of Laussane

  • Gentiloni Pact

  • Bibliotheca Hertziana- Max Planck Institute of Art History is opened in Rome

  • Giovanni Giolitti resigns as prime minister and Antonio Salandra takes office

  • Red Week

  • Benito Mussolini establishes Il Popolo d'Italia, a newspaper

  • Avezzano earthquake

  • Italy signs London Pact

  • Italy declares war against Germany and Austria-Hungary and enters WWI

  • Period: to

    World War I (Italy)

  • Fifth Battle of the Isonzo

  • Battle of Asiago

  • Antonio Salandra resigns as Prime Minster and Paola Boselli takes office

  • Ninth Battle of the Isonzo

  • Bienno Rosso begins

  • Tenth Battle of the Isonzo

  • Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo

  • Paola Boselli resigns as Prime Minister and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando takes office

  • Battle of Caporetto

  • Battle of Piave River

  • Flight over Vienna

  • Battle of Vittorio Veneto

  • Vittorio Emanuele Orlando resigns as Prime Minister and Francesco Saverio Nitti takes office

  • Fascist Manifesto

  • The Treaty of Versailles

  • Verona Crash

  • Period: to

    Bienno Rosso

  • San Remo Conference

  • Francesco Saverio Nitti resigns as Prime Minister and Giovanni Giolitti takes office

  • 600,000 Italian workers seize and occupy their factories

  • Treaty of Rapallo

  • Gucci was founded

  • Italian Communist Party is founded

  • Giovanni Giolitti resigns as Prme Minister and Ivanoe Bonomi takes office

  • Fascist Party of Italy is founded

  • Ivanoe Bonomi resigns as Prime Minister and Luigi Facta takes office

  • Genoa Conference

  • Fascist Congress in Naples

  • The March on Rome

  • Luigi Facta is removed from office and Mussolini is sworn in as Prime Minister

  • Treaty of Lausanne

  • Acerbo Law

  • Treaty of Rome

  • Battle for Grain

  • Battle for the Lira confirmed in Pessaro Speech

  • Battle for Land is confirmed in Pesaro Speech

  • Labour Charter of 1927

  • Kellogg–Briand Pact

  • Period: to

    Great Depression in Italy

  • Lateran Treaty is signed

  • Irpinia Earthquake

  • Senigallia Earthquake

  • Non Abbiamo Bisogno

  • Convention between Italy and Turkey

  • Four Power Pact

  • Italy Hosts the FIFA World Cup

  • Italy wins the FIFA World Cup

  • Period: to

    Italian-Ethiopian War

  • Italy Invades Ethiopia

  • Italy wins the second Ethiopian War

  • Period: to

    Italian Involvement in Spanish Civil War

  • Italy Signs Anti-Comintern Pact

  • Easter Pact

  • Manifesto of Race

  • Munich Agreement

  • Pact of Steel

  • Italian Declaration of War

  • Period: to

    Italy in WWII

  • Italy successfully conquers British Somaliland

  • Italian attempted invasion of Egypt

  • Tripartite Pact

  • Greco-Italian War begins

  • Battle of the Duisburg Convoy

  • Battle of Gondar

  • Raid on Alexandria

  • Second Battle of Sirte

  • Battle of Skerki Bank

  • Raid on Algiers

  • Mussolini is removed from ruling position

  • Allied Invasion of Italy

  • Armistice between Italy and Allied forces

  • Mussolini establishes the Salo Republic, a fascist state

  • Air Raid on Bari

  • Operation Shingle

  • Operation Diadem

  • Allies win Battle of Monte Cassino

  • Allies win the Battle of Argenta Gap

  • Allies win Battle of Bologna

  • Germany and Italy surrender to the Allies

  • Constitutional Referendum

  • Paris Peace Treaties are signed

  • Republican Constitution was approved

  • Christian Democrats achieve power in government by landslide

  • Superga Air Disaster

  • The Korean War begins

  • Period: to

    Italian Economic Miracle

  • The United Socialist Party joined with the Italian Socialist Workers Party forming the Italian Democratic Socialist Party

  • Marshall Plan Ends

  • Italy is defeated by the US in the finals for the Davis Cup

  • BOAC Flight 781 crashes

  • Italy becomes a member of the United Nations

  • Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community

  • Euratom Treaty- treaty that established European atomic energy community

  • British European Airways Flight 142 crashes en route to Naples

  • Urbino European Law Seminar is inaugurated

  • Via Canosa 7 building collapse

  • Opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics hosted in Rome

  • Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations

  • Fiumarella rail disaster

  • Castel Bolognese train disaster

  • Voghera train crash

  • Ciaculli Masacre

  • Flaminio Costa v ENEL

  • TWA Flight 800 crashes during takeoff

  • Vittorio Adorni wins Giro d'Italia

  • Flood of the Arno River

  • Belice earthquake

  • Battle of Valle Giulia

  • The political movement Hot Autumn begins

  • Piazza Fontana bombing