Italian History Timeline (Part 5)

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• 2020-03-19 Italian death toll from COVID-19 at 3,405 surpasses China's official total (3,245) making it then the worst-affected country in the world
• 2020-03-21 Italy records record daily death toll of 793 for COVID-19 as the worldwide death tolls surpasses 12,000 with 299,000 known infections (Johns Hopkins figures)
• 2020-03-25 Spain's death toll from COVID-19 overtakes China's at 3,434 to become then second worldwide behind Italy with 7,503 deaths with a worldwide toll of 20,836

• 2020-04-14 Parts of Europe begin to ease lockdown restrictions after 5-6 weeks with some shops opening in Austria and parts of Italy
• 2020-04-15 Revised death count for New York taking into account assumed COVID-19 deaths makes the city's per-capita death rate higher than Italy at 10,367 at this date
• 2020-05-04 Countries in Europe begin cautious reopening after COVID-19 lockdown, Italy restarts construction and takeaways, Germany reopens schools
• 2020-07-01 Word record drug haul of 14 tonnes of amphetamines seized by Italian police in Salerno worth $1.1 billion. Thought made in Syria by Islamic State.

• 2020-10-10 Italian teenage computer genius Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at 15, beatified by the Catholic Church in Assisi, Italy

• 2021-03-12 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi imposes new COVID restrictions warning of a new wave as cases again exceed 25,000 a day
• 2021-03-15 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine halted in Germany, France and Italy joining some other countries despite little evidence of unusual blood clotting

• 2021-08-11 Sicily records highest-ever temperature in Europe of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in city of Siracusa (unverified)
• 2021-10-03 Record rainfall in Europe when 36 inches (925 mm) of rain begins falling in northern Italian town of Rossiglione [1]
• 2022-04-23 59th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition opens, with 80 participating. Main exhibition "The Milk of Dreams" curated by Cecilia Aleman. [1]
• 2022-04-23 American Simone Leigh is the first Black woman artist to win the main prize at Venice Biennale for her sculpture "Brick House" [1]
• 2022-04-23 Venice Biennale's top award, The Golden Lion (Best National Participation) awarded to UK's Sonia Boyce for her work "Feeling Her Way" [1]
• 2022-04-27 Italian women footballers finally turn professional after Italian Football Federation changes status of top division (takes effect 1 July) and ends capped amateur salaries [1]

• 2022-07-06 Rocco Morabito, Italian second-most wanted and one of the world's most power drug brokers extradited from Brazil to Italy, after being on the run for 28 years [1]
• 2022-07-20 An intense heatwave across Europe results in over 1000 deaths in Portugal and 500 in Spain; while starting wildfires across Spain, France, Italy and Greece [1]
• 2022-07-20 Italian government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi falls after his coalition partners pass a no confidence vote against him [1]
• 2022-09-10 Best film at 79th Venice international film festival awarded to Laura Poitras’ documentary about photographer Nan Goldin "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" [1]
• 2022-10-22 Italy forms new coalition government, choosing far-right Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia - FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni as Prime Minister, the 1st female to hold the office [1]

• 2022-11-08 Archaeologists announce the most significant find of Etruscan and Roman bronze statues for 50 years excavating an ancient spa in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy [1]
• 2022-11-26 Large mudslide after intense rain tears across Italian island of Ischia, killing at least eight people, on an island where 50% of the houses were illegally built [1]
• 2023-01-04 US and other countries including Italy, Japan and India re-introduce Covid testing of people arriving from China as WHO warns China under-representing Covid's true impact in the country [1]
• 2023-01-16 Italy's most wanted mobster Matteo Messina Denaro (61) arrested at a private cancer clinic in Palermo, Sicily after being on the run for 30 years [1]
• 2023-02-26 At least 59 migrants are killed after a boat breaks up in rough seas off the eastern coast of Calabria, Italy, with 80 survivors [1]
• 2023-08-03 Forty-one migrants form Ivory Coast and Guinea drown and just four survive after their boat capsizes off Italian island of Lampedusa [1]
• 2023-10-04 21 people are killed after a bus crashes off a bridge and plunges 15m (50ft) at Mestre, near Venice, Italy [1]
• 2023-11-11 Kimba, an escaped circus lion, roams the streets of Italian seaside town of Ladispoli for five hours before being recaptured [1]

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