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Modern history of Italy
- Treaty of Campo FormioThe Treaty of Campo Formio was signed on the 17th of October 1797 in an old house on the main square of a small village west of Udine.
- Stresa FrontGermany declared its intention to build an air force in March 1935. This declaration marked a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
- Unification of ItalyThe Unification of Italy, known in Italian as the Risorgimento, a word meaning "rising again", produced a nation from a peninsula that had been divided for…
- Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935Italy entered World War I expecting to gain territory from the defeated German colonial empire. The Treaty of Versailles denied Italy these lands, dividing…
- Congress of ViennaThe Congress of Vienna gathered representatives of virtually every European power in one city at one time - a feat that had never been attempted before on a…
- Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacreSant'Anna di Stazzema is a hill village in Tuscany, and on the morning of the 12th of August 1944, it ceased to exist as its inhabitants had known it.
- Treaty of London (1915)On the 26th of April 1915, four diplomats signed a document in London that would reshape Europe. The United Kingdom, France, Russia, and Italy agreed to keep…
- Italian Republic (Napoleonic)The Italian Republic existed for just three years, from 1802 to 1805, a northern Italian state with Napoleon Bonaparte as its president and Milan as its…
- Italian resistance movementIn 1921, a militant group called Arditi del Popolo formed in Italy to fight the violent Blackshirts of Benito Mussolini.
- Kingdom of ItalyOn the 17th of March 1861, Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy in Turin. This event marked the birth of a new state from decades of…
- Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul IIAt 17:17 on the 13th of May 1981, four shots rang out across St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. Pope John Paul II, riding through a crowd of supporters, was…