32 events with tag "Italy"
343 BC
ID: 314
First Samnite War begins - Rome begins conquest of Italy, learning mountain warfare
ID: 314
343 BC
ID: 2653
First Samnite War begins - Rome starts 50-year struggle for control of Italy, learns mountain warfare
ID: 2653
295 BC
ID: 2656
Battle of Sentinum - Rome defeats coalition of Samnites, Gauls, Etruscans, and Umbrians, dominance of Italy assured
ID: 2656
275 BC
ID: 2659
Battle of Beneventum - Romans defeat Pyrrhus using anti-elephant tactics, Greek intervention ends, Rome controls southern Italy
ID: 2659
203 BC
ID: 5967
Hannibal abandons Italy - one year after Cybele's arrival, Hannibal withdraws, Romans credit Magna Mater with salvation
ID: 5967
91 BC
ID: 2680
Social War begins - Italian allies revolt for citizenship, Rome forced to grant it to end devastating war
ID: 2680
50 BC
ID: 5425
Italian wine production peaks - estimated 1.8 million hectoliters annually, massive export throughout Mediterranean and beyond
ID: 5425
70
ID: 5403
Gallic wine production surpasses Italian - former barbarians now export wine to Rome, Pliny complains about competition
ID: 5403
452
ID: 4733
Attila invades Italy - destroys Aquileia, Pope Leo I meets him, mysteriously withdraws from Rome
ID: 4733
539
ID: 2835
Theudebert invades Italy - takes advantage of Gothic-Byzantine war, mints gold coins with his image (imperial prerogative)
ID: 2835
540
ID: 4761
Belisarius takes Ravenna - reconquers Italy for Byzantine Empire, Gothic kingdom falls
ID: 4761
552
ID: 4805
Narses completes reconquest of Italy - eunuch general defeats Goths after 20-year war, Italy devastated
ID: 4805
568
ID: 4809
Lombards invade Italy - Alboin leads entire nation across Alps, 200,000+ people, April 2, 568
ID: 4809
574
ID: 4814
Italy permanently divided - Lombards control north, Byzantines hold Ravenna and south, fragmentation until 1861
ID: 4814
756
ID: 2881
Donation of Pepin - defeats Lombards, gives conquered lands to Pope, creates Papal States
ID: 2881
810
ID: 2919
Death of Pepin of Italy - Charlemagne's second son dies, only Louis remains as heir
ID: 2919
817
ID: 2927
Bernard of Italy rebels - nephew Bernard rebels against Ordinatio, captured, blinded, dies from wounds
ID: 2927
1220
ID: 5283
Troubadour diaspora - surviving troubadours flee to Italy and Spain, influence Dante and dolce stil novo
ID: 5283
1327
ID: 2282
First recorded cessio bonorum in Italian city-states - debtor surrenders all assets to creditors in exchange for discharge, prototype of bankruptcy
ID: 2282
1339
ID: 4785
Werner von Urslingen forms Great Company - German mercenaries in Italy, armor inscribed 'Enemy of God, Enemy of Pity'
ID: 4785
1350
ID: 2284
Societas (partnership) forms standardized in Italian city-states - general and limited partnerships distinguished in notarial practice
ID: 2284
1362
ID: 4788
John Hawkwood arrives in Italy - joins White Company at Pisa, begins 30-year Italian career
ID: 4788
1544
ID: 5669
Pietro Andrea Mattioli names tomato 'pomi d'oro' (golden apple) - first European description, notes similarity to nightshade
ID: 5669
1723
ID: 488
Reportedly first Masonic lodge 'Fidelitas' founded at Girifalco in Calabria (documentation sparse)
ID: 488
1732
ID: 497
Lord Charles Sackville establishes first English Masonic Lodge in Italy - 'La Loggia degli Inglesi' in Florence
ID: 497
1815
ID: 712
Post-Napoleon, Carbonari spread rapidly among those dissatisfied with Congress of Vienna settlement
ID: 712
1866
ID: 5125
Venice joins Kingdom of Italy - after Austrian defeat in Austro-Prussian War, Venice votes to join unified Italy
ID: 5125
1870
ID: 975
Kingdom of Italy captures Rome; Pope Pius IX becomes prisoner of the Vatican
ID: 975
1870
ID: 976
November 1, 1870
Pope Pius IX refuses to recognize Kingdom of Italy with encyclical Respicientes
ID: 976
1882
ID: 1034
Triple Alliance formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
ID: 1034
1925
ID: 1334
Fascist Suppression of Freemasonry - Mussolini dissolves Freemasonry in Italy entirely
ID: 1334
1956
ID: 1713
Don Pasquale Uva discovers infiltrator 'Sanomonte' from Communist Party at House of Divine Providence
ID: 1713