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827
Arabic Domination
The history of Islam in Sicily and Southern Italy began with the first Muslim settlement in Sicily, at Mazara, which was captured in 827. -
1061
Norman Domination
During the 1010s and 1020s, there were a series of succession crises and Into this, the Normans under Robert Guiscard and his younger brother Roger Bosso came intending to conquer; the pope had conferred on Robert the title of "Duke of Sicily", encouraging him to seize Sicily from the Saracens. Robert and Roger first invaded Sicily in May 1061, crossing from Reggio di Calabria and besieging Messina for control of the strategically vital Strait of Messina. -
1198
Swabian domination
The Swabian dynasty in Sicily lasted from 1198, the year in which Frederick II of Swabia was proclaimed king, to 1266 when Manfredi of Sicily was defeated by Charles I of Anjou. -
1266
French Domination
The government of the rulers of the Angevin dynasty in Sicily lasted from 1266, when the king of the Swabian dynasty of Manfredi di Sicilia, natural son of Frederick II of Swabia, was defeated and killed in Benevento by Charles of Anjou, brother of the king of France . But the government of the Angevin rulers in Sicily was short-lived and ended already in 1282 with the revolt of the Sicilian Vespers and the Aragonese conquest. -
1282
War of the Sicilian Vespers
The War of the Sicilian Vespers or just War of the Vespers was a conflict that started with the insurrection of the Sicilian Vespers against Charles of Anjou in 1282 and ended in 1302 with the Peace of Caltabellotta. -
1516
Spanish Domination
The Spanish rule in the Kingdom of Sicily began on January 23, 1516, with the accession to the throne of Spain of Charles V of Habsburg, and ended June 10, 1713, with the signing of the peace of Utrecht, which sanctioned the passage of the island from Philip V to Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy. -
Emigration of the "Hope"
Between 1861 and 1985, almost 30 million emigrants left Italy. As if the entire Italian population at the beginning of the twentieth century had gone out of business. The majority of Italian emigrants, over 14 million, left in the decades following the Unification of Italy, during the so-called "great emigration" (1876-1915).
The most chosen destinations were: Germnay, Belgium, United States and some South american Countries. -
Marcinel disaster
The Marcinelle disaster occurred on the morning of 8 August 1956 in the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Marcinelle, Belgium. It was a fire caused by the combustion of high pressure oil triggered by an electric spark. The fire, which initially developed in the main air intake duct, filled the entire underground facility with smoke, killing 262 of the 275 people present, including 136 Italian immigrants. -
Albanian landing in Brindisi
It was on the 7th March of the 1991 when Italy became the host country of 27 thousand albanian.
They were fleeing from the economic crisis and from the communist dictatorship in Albania. There was a big debated about this immigration and one of the most considerable thought was the book of Antonio Stella that talk about the history of the italian emigration in the second part of XIX Century and resumes times when this huge population of albanian were like the italian in the US or other country. -
Lampedusa Landing
From 2002, about 500'000 have arrived in Italy (Lampedusa) until today. In 2002(the first year of this immigration from North Africa), 23,719 arrived in our coasts. The largest number of migrants was registered in 2016 with the arrival of 181'400 migrants. -
Intellectual Disoccupation Emigration
According to the Italians in the World 2017 report, edited by the Migrantes Foundation, the flow of Italians who decide to leave their motherland is dramatically increased. More than half of these, are southern. Only in 2016, the exodus involved 124 thousand people and about 40% were young people between the ages of 18 and 35.
