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Although it is formerly aligned with Germany and Austria-Hungary , Italy enters World War I on the side of the Anglo-French Allies.
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Enzo Ferrari, having no other job perspective, eventually settles for a job at a small car company called CMN redesigning used truck bodies into small passenger cars.
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The German-speaking inhabitants of South Tirol are incorporated within Italy under the Versailles peace terms
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Within a five-week period the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello writes two masterpieces, Six Characters in Search of an Author immediately followed by Henry IV
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After the lack of a compromise between socialists and Christian-democrats, and the March on Rome of the fascist militias, Benito Mussolini is named by the King as prime minister of Italy
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The Italian king Victor Emmanuel III, alarmed at the prospect of a Fascist march on Rome, asks Mussolini to form a government
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Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI
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The Italian novelist Italo Svevo has his first great success when The Confessions of Zeno is published in France
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The Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is murdered by Mussolini's Fascists
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Benito Mussolini became the dictator and ruler of Italy
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The novelist Grazia Deledda is the first Italian woman who is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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All non-Fascist political activity is banned in Italy, parliament being replaced with the Fascist Grand Council
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Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli introduces a successful new line for women in the form of the padded shoulder
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The Italian national football team wins its first FIFA World Cup
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Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, resulting in an international alienation and leading to Italy's withdrawal from the League of Nations.
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Mussolini appoints his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as his minister for foreign affairs
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Mussolini and Hitler signed the Rome-Berlin Axis .
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Enrico Fermi is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.
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The Italian national football team wins its second FIFA World Cup.
