Bologna History Timeline

• 1482-01-26 "Pentateuch" the Jewish Bible is 1st printed as a book in Bologna, Italy

• 1512-02-05 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescue Bologna, which was under siege from a combined Papal-Spanish army
• 1549-09-13 Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna
• 1796-09-05 General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna, Italy

• 1847-11-28 Church of San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali in Bologna, Italy initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo

• 1922-06-01 Over 50,000 Fascists gather for a meeting in Bologna where Mussolini warns that he will lead a full-scale revolt against a government favoring 'anti-Fascist reaction'
• 1978-04-15 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy
• 1980-08-02 Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
• 1988-09-18 Magna Charta Universitatum signed to celebrate university traditions and mark 900th anniversary of the founding of Bologna University, the oldest in the world
• 2012-05-29 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, Italy
• 2014-12-01 Utility Claudio Liverziani becomes first 3-time MVP in the Italian Baseball League; 291/.444/.472 season, with 30 HRs and 20 RBI in 38 games for Fortitudo Bologna

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• 1463-10-29 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1512)
• 1474-02-12 Lorenzo Campeggio Italian cardinal (legate for the Pope over English Henry VIII's first marriage), born in Milan (d. 1539)

• 1513-02-14 Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian Renaissance composer and singer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1574)
• 1519-07-20 Pope Innocent IX [Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591), born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1591)
• 1522-09-11 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist and naturalist, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1605)
• 1530-08-22 Bartolomeo Spontone, Italian composer and singer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1592)
• 1531-08-24 Ercole Bottrigari, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal Sates (now Italy) (d. 1612)
• 1543-01-18 Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer who brought madrigal music to England, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1588)
• 1544-11-27 Ascanio Trombeti, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1590)
• 1549-06-01 Allesandre Spontone, Bolognese composer and Maestro Di Capella, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. c. 1590)
• 1552-04-15 Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1626)
• 1552-08-24 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1614)
• 1554-01-09 Gregory XV [Alessandro Ludovisi], Italian Catholic pope (1621-23) and Archbishop of Bologna, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1623)
• 1555-03-02 Ludovico Spontoni, Italian Renaissance composer, baptized in Bologna, Papal States (d. pre 1609)
• 1555-04-21 Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1619)
• 1557-08-16 Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (Communion of St. Jerome), born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1602)
• 1557-12-07 Girolamo Trombetti, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1628)
• 1560-11-03 Annibale Carracci, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1609)
• 1566-12-30 Alessandro Piccinini, Italian lutenist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1638)
• 1567-08-10 Girolamo Giacobbi, Italian singer, choirmaster, conductor, and composer of sacred music and opera, baptized in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1629)
• 1568-09-03 Adriano Banchieri, Italian organist, composer, poet, and monk, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1634)
• 1569-11-27 Ottavio Vernizzi, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1649)
• 1574-09-18 Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer and poet, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1640)
• 1575-11-04 Guido Reni, Italian Baroque painter, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1642)
• 1578-03-17 Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Mary's Ascension), born in Bologna (d. 1660)
• 1585-09-10 Ercole Porta, Italian church composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1630)
• 1589-08-10 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, Italian composer (Missa defunctorum), and percussionist, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy (d. 1635)
• 1595-07-31 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1654)
• 1611-04-09 Giacomo Maria Predieri, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1695)
• 1618-04-02 Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (light defraction), born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1663)
• 1628-03-10 Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician who founded the science of microscopic anatomy, born in Crevalcore, near Bologna, Papal States (d. 1694)
• 1632-02-18 Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1692)
• 1636-11-10 Francesco Passarini, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1694)
• 1637-06-16 Giovanni Paulo Colonna, Italian composer and organ builder, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1695)
• 1643-07-03 Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1682)
• 1651-04-15 Domenico Gabrielli, Italian Baroque composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1690)
• 1655-01-14 Angelo Predieri, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1731)
• 1657-08-18 Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect and designer, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1743)
• 1659-12-12 Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1739)
• 1661-06-06 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, and Maestro di Cappella (San Petronio, 1696-1756), born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1756)
• 1663-09-20 Pirro Capacelli, Italian aristocrat and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1735)
• 1666-11-05 Attilio Ariosti, Italian baroque composer (Court of Kingdom of Prussia, 1697-1703), viola d'amore player, and harpsichordist, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1729)
• 1671-03-26 Giacomo Cesare Predieri, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Papal States (d. 1753)
• 1675-03-31 Benedict XIV [Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini], Italian Pope (1740-58), born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1758)
• 1685-08-01 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1748)
• 1688-09-13 Luca Antonio Predieri, Italian composer and violinist, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1767)
• 1690-08-09 Lorenzo Zavateri, Italian violinist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1764)
• 1690-10-19 Giuseppe Maria Carretti, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1774)
• 1701-06-13 Angelo Antonio Caroli, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1778)
• 1706-04-24 Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1784)
• 1711-10-31 Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and scholar, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1778)
• 1716-10-25 Petronio Maria Pio Sgabazzi, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. after 1740)
• 1728-04-19 Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian writer and playwright, born in Bologna (d. 1804)
• 1729-01-22 Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi, Italian tenor and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. c. 1790)
• 1736-09-08 Bernardo Ottani, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1827)
• 1737-09-07 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist and physicist ("animal electricity"), born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1798)
• 1738-10-14 Giovanni Zanotti, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1817)
• 1750-02-10 Stanislao Mattei, Italian composer, teacher, musicologist, and monk, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1825)
• 1756-01-22 Vincenzo Righini, Italian composer and singer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1812)
• 1757-11-20 Giovanni Battista Gaiani, Italian organist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1819)
• 1762-01-21 Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, Italian music publisher and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1827 or 1828)
• 1762-04-10 Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist, born in Bologna (d. 1834)
• 1772-03-27 Giovanni Liverati, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1846)
• 1774-09-17 Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal, linguist and hyperpolyglot (understood 70 languages), born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1849)
• 1789-10-18 Giovanni Tadolini, Italian conductor and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1872)
• 1800-12-23 Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, Italian classical guitarist and composer, born in Bologna, Cisalpine Republic (d. 1878)
• 1807-03-15 Gaetano Gaspari, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1881)
• 1818-10-26 Stefano Golinelli, Italian pianist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1891)
• 1865-09-08 Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (Amore & Amore, Top), born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1924)

• 1879-07-09 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Pines of Rome), born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1936)
• 1891-04-19 Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian playwright and poet (La Ronda), born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1985)
• 1898-08-04 Ernesto Maserati, Italian auto racer and engineer (director, chief engineer Maserati of Modena), born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1975)
• 1901-05-03 Gino Cervi, Italian actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja), born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1974)
• 1904-07-23 Adone Zecchi, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1995)
• 1904-08-28 Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer, born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1980)
• 1908-03-03 Riccardo Nielsen, Italian composer and music director, born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1982)
• 1916-03-04 Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (Botteghe Oscure), born in Bologna,Kingdom of Italy (d. 2000)
• 1919-02-12 Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian soccer midfielder and manager (Bologna; Atalanta, Italy 1974 World Cup), born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (d. 2005)
• 1920-05-18 Lucia Mannucci, Italian jazz singer (Quartetto Cetra, 1947-88), born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2012)
• 1922-03-05 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, journalist, novelist (Ragazzi di vita), and film director (Teorema; Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte), born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1975)
• 1923-02-22 Gigliola Frazzoni, Italian operatic soprano, born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2016)
• 1934-12-30 Joseph Bologna, American actor (Citizen Cohn, My Favorite Year), born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1937-01-12 Liliana Cavani, Italian director (Berlin Affair), born in Carpi, Italy
• 1938-01-21 Romano Fogli, Italian soccer midfielder (13 caps; Torino FC, Bologna FC 1909, A.C. Milan, Calcio Catania) and manager (Bologna FC), born in Santa Maria a Monte, Italy (d. 2021)
• 1938-11-03 Pupi Avati, Italian director (Festival, Bix: Impiegati; The House WIth Laughing Windows), born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy
• 1939-07-16 Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director, born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1995)
• 1941-10-26 Harald Nielsen, Danish soccer forward (14 caps; Olympic silver 1960; Frederikshavn fI, Bologna FC), born in Frederikshavn, Denmark (d. 2015)
• 1943-06-18 Raffaella Carrà [Pelloni], Italian singer ("Forte forte forte"), actress, and television presenter, born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2021)
• 1947-08-31 Luca di Montezemolo, Italian businessman (Chairman of Ferrari, NTV trains), born in Bologna, Italy
• 1950-02-07 Mauro Bellugi, Italian soccer defender (32 caps; Inter Milan, Bologna, Napoli), born in Buonconvento, Italy (d. 2021)
• 1950-03-01 Nick Mike-Mayer, American NFL and USFL football placekicker, 1972-88 (Pro Bowl 1973; Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills), born in Bologna, Italy
• 1958-03-23 Serena Grandi [Fagioli], Italian actress (Miranda), born in Bologna, Italy
• 1960-02-13 Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee, born in Bologna, Italy
• 1966-09-02 Massimo Cuttitta, Italian rugby union prop (69 caps [captain 16]; Milano, Harlequins, Bologna), born in Latina, Italy (d. 2021)
• 1966-10-23 Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver who raced with prosthetic limbs, born in Bologna, Italy
• 1966-12-19 Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier (Olympic gold Slalom 1988, Giant slalom 1988, 1992; silver Slalom 1992, 94), born in San Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna, Italy

• 1971-10-27 Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek soccer midfielder (120 caps; Kavala, PAOK, Leicester City, AEK Athens, Bologna) and politician (Member European Parliament), born in Kavala, Greece

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