Italian History Timeline (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 834

• 1925-11-12 US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
• 1925-12-01 Peace Treaty of Locarno signed between Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy
• 1925-12-06 Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)

• 1926-04-03 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
• 1926-05-18 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanishes in Venice, California She shows up a month later saying she's been kidnapped
• 1926-08-10 Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
• 1926-09-02 Italy signs treaty with Yemen
• 1926-09-16 Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
• 1926-10-07 Italian Great Fascist Council forms

• 1926-11-27 Italian & Albania sign peace treaty
• 1926-12-15 Fascist national symbol elevated in Italy

• 1928-05-12 Benito Mussolini announces moves to end women's suffrage in a speech to the Senate in Italy
• 1928-05-23 Anarchist bomb attack on Italian Consulate in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 7 and injures dozens
• 1928-05-24 Italian aviator Umberto Nobile flies airship Italia over North Pole again (crashes onto ice pack a day later)

• 1929-07-23 The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words
• 1929-10-24 Belgian princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto get engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails
• 1930-07-23 Earthquake strikes Ariano in Italy, 1,500 killed
• 1930-09-11 Stromboli volcano, Sicily throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
• 1930-11-03 Bank of Italy renamed Bank of America
• 1933-05-06 Italy and USSR sign trade agreement
• 1934-03-17 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, and Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös sign Donau Pact (Protocols of Rome) guaranteeing Austrian independence

• 1934-11-23 An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
• 1934-12-03 Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
• 1935-01-07 French Foreign minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini sign the Franco-Italian Agreement
• 1935-01-15 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
• 1935-10-03 Italy invades Ethiopia, starting the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
• 1935-10-06 Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
• 1935-10-10 League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
• 1935-12-30 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
• 1936-03-23 Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome

• 1936-05-05 Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa
• 1936-05-09 Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
• 1936-06-30 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie asks the League of Nations for sanctions against Italy
• 1936-07-04 League of Nations ends sanctions against Italy after Italian takeover of Abyssinia
• 1936-10-04 Italian lire devalued
• 1936-11-01 Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis"

• 1937-01-09 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
• 1937-03-25 Italy & Yugoslavia sign non-aggression treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
• 1937-08-24 In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
• 1937-12-11 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
• 1937-12-24 Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia

• 1938-04-16 Great Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
• 1938-08-21 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
• 1938-09-01 Benito Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
• 1938-11-17 Italy passes its own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws

• 1939-04-07 Italy invades Albania
• 1939-04-08 King Zog I of Albania flees after Italy invades
• 1939-04-10 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
• 1939-05-22 Germany's Adolf Hitler and Italy's Benito Mussolini sign the "Pact of Steel" formalizing the 1936 alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
• 1940-03-18 Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler meet at Brenner Pass where the Italian dictator agrees he will, in due course, join Germany's impending war effort in the west
• 1940-04-12 Italy annexes Albania
• 1940-06-10 Canada declares war on Italy
• 1940-06-10 Italy declares war on France and Great Britain as part of its Axis alliance with Nazi Germany
• 1940-06-11 Italy declares war on Allies
• 1940-06-11 World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy
• 1940-06-11 World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta
• 1940-06-15 38 Italian Fiat bombers bomb Luc-en-Province
• 1940-06-24 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
• 1940-08-03 Italian troops invade British Somalia
• 1940-09-12 Italian troops enter Egypt
• 1940-09-13 Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
• 1940-09-18 Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani
• 1940-09-27 Nazi Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)
• 1940-10-28 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
• 1940-10-28 Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Florence, Italy
• 1940-11-11 British Fleet Air Arm attack destroys half of Italian fleet at Taranto
• 1941-01-03 Italian counter offensive in Albania
• 1941-01-18 World War II: A counter-offensive is launched by the British against the Italians in East Africa
• 1941-01-22 British and Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
• 1941-02-06 Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed
• 1941-02-28 British-Italian dogfight above Albania
• 1941-03-24 British troops defeat Italians in Somaliland
• 1941-03-28 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy
• 1941-04-06 Italian forces holding Addis Ababa surrender to British & Ethiopian forces
• 1941-05-16 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi, Ethiopia
• 1941-05-18 Italian army in Ethiopia under general Aosta surrenders to Britain
• 1941-11-18 Benito Mussolini's Italian forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia, forced out by Allied attacks
• 1941-12-09 China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
• 1941-12-11 Axis powers Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy declare war against the United States
• 1941-12-11 Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
• 1941-12-15 North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing

• 1942-01-29 German & Italian troops occupy Benghazi, Libya
• 1942-05-27 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
• 1942-08-22 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
• 1942-08-23 World War II: last cavalry charge in history takes place at Isbushenskij, Russia; the Italian Savoia Cavalleria charges Soviet infantry
• 1942-08-27 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
• 1942-08-31 Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault
• 1942-11-11 WWII: British led Allied forces defeat Erwin Rommel's German and Italian Army Panzers in Second Battle of El-Alamein, North Africa, helping to secure the Suez Canal
• 1942-12-04 US bombers strike Italian mainland for first time in WW II
• 1943-01-19 Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily

• 1943-01-22 Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion of Sicily for July 10th
• 1943-03-05 Anti-fascist strikes in Italy
• 1943-04-28 German-Italian counter offensive in North Africa
• 1943-05-13 German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
• 1943-05-18 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria, an Italian island 100 km southwest of Sicily

• 1943-06-02 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
• 1943-06-11 WWII: British invades Pantelleria, a tiny island south of Sicily
• 1943-07-05 US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily
• 1943-07-10 US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)

• 1943-07-11 US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily
• 1943-07-11 US 82nd Airborne division shot at by "friendly fire" in Sicily
• 1943-07-18 British assault on Catania, Sicily

• 1943-07-23 US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini (Sicily)

• 1943-07-28 Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
• 1943-08-05 Sicily: 3 US A-36's bomb British headquarters
• 1943-08-06 US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
• 1943-08-08 US amphibians land at St Agata on North coast of Sicily
• 1943-08-11 US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
• 1943-08-16 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
• 1943-08-17 US General George S. Patton enters Messina, completing the Allied conquest of Sicily
• 1943-09-03 British 8th Army lands in Southern Italy (Messina)
• 1943-09-03 General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily
• 1943-09-04 British 8th Army lands at Taranto, South Italy

• 1943-09-09 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome
• 1943-09-10 British 8th army occupies Tarento, Italy
• 1943-09-10 Italian fleet anchors at Malta
• 1943-09-11 Allied armed forces conquer Salerno, Italy
• 1943-09-15 Benito Mussolini forms a rival anti-monarchist fascist government in Italy and soon returns to power as a German puppet state
• 1943-10-03 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy
• 1943-10-13 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
• 1943-12-03 World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
• 1943-12-10 British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
• 1944-01-22 Allied forces begin landing at Anzio on the Italian mainland
• 1944-01-24 Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
• 1944-01-29 World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy
• 1944-01-30 The Battle of Cisterna begins in central Italy
• 1944-02-07 Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy
• 1944-02-11 German troops reconquer Aprilia, Italy
• 1944-02-15 Allies begin attack on Axis held Monte Cassino monastery, Italy
• 1944-03-01 Massive strikes in northern Italian towns
• 1944-03-02 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocate 521 in Italy
• 1944-03-04 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
• 1944-03-13 USSR recognizes Italian government of Pietro Badoglio
• 1944-03-15 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
• 1944-03-17 Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts after months of volcanic unrest, destroying several towns near the volcano
• 1944-03-23 Italian resistance group bombs occupying German police at Via Rasella, Rome; killing 33 and wounding 110 of the 156 man force; retaliation kills 335 civilians

• 1944-05-18 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy
• 1944-05-19 German defense line in Italy collapses
• 1944-05-23 British and Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo, Italy
• 1944-05-29 British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy
• 1944-07-18 Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy
• 1944-07-23 US troops occupy Pisa, Italy
• 1944-08-04 British 8th Army reaches suburbs of Florence, Italy

• 1944-08-31 Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie" Italy
• 1944-09-28 Nazi forces begin killing civilians in the Italian village of Marzabotto
• 1945-02-21 Battle of Monte Castello (Italy): Allied forces, including the first land battle of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, defeat Germans after three months of fierce fighting in the foothills of the Apennine Mountains
• 1945-03-12 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
• 1945-04-09 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
• 1945-04-23 US troops in Italy cross river Po
• 1945-04-27 Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como)
• 1945-04-29 German armies in Italy sign an unconditional surrender to the Western Allies to be carried out on 2 May
• 1945-04-29 Venice and Mestre captured by the Allies
• 1945-05-02 More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria
• 1945-05-02 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste, Italy

• 1946-02-10 Charles "Lucky" Luciano is deported to Italy, and never returns to the United States
• 1946-05-01 The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy

• 1946-06-02 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
• 1946-06-10 Italian Republic established
• 1946-06-13 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates after 24 days in the wake of the country declaring itself a republic
• 1946-06-28 Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st President of Italy
• 1947-02-01 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems & communists
• 1947-02-10 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
• 1947-05-31 Italian government of Gasperi forms
• 1947-12-22 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
• 1948-01-01 The Constitution of Italy comes into force
• 1948-03-07 The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending Italian rule
• 1948-05-11 Luigi Einaudi elected President of Italy
• 1948-07-14 Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament in an assassination attempt
• 1950-05-13 First ever race of the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship is run at Silverstone, England and won by Giuseppe Farina of italy in an Alfa Romeo
• 1951-09-19 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
• 1951-12-24 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN
• 1953-02-14 "Trionfo di Afrodite (Triumph of Aphrodite)", the final work of Carl Orff's Trionfi trilogy premieres at La Scala in Milan, Italy
• 1954-01-18 Amintore Fanfani forms Italian government
• 1954-01-30 Fanfani government of Italy resigns
• 1954-02-09 Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy
• 1954-07-31 First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio
• 1954-10-26 City of Trieste returned to Italy
• 1955-04-29 Giovanni Gronchi elected third President of Italy

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