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Timeline of Italian history This page was last edited on 8 March 2022, at 06:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Italy takes part in the Iraq War, although populations show disapproval through peace flags. 2004: 30 March: It is established the National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe. 2005: 4 March: Nicola Calipari, Italian secret agent, is shot dead by friendly fire from a US patrol during the rescue of journalist Giuliana Sgrena from kidnappers in ...
Italy took the initiative in entering the war in spring 1915, despite strong popular and elite sentiment in favor of neutrality. Italy was a large, poor country whose political system was chaotic, its finances were heavily strained, and its army was very poorly prepared. [160] The Triple Alliance meant little either to Italians or Austrians.
Political map of Italy in the year 1843. Following the defeat of Napoleon's France, the Congress of Vienna (1815) was convened to redraw the European continent. In Italy, the Congress restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments, either directly ruled or strongly influenced by the prevailing European powers, particularly ...
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Celebrations held for 4 November at Altare della Patria in Rome (1920) Celebrations for National Unity and Armed Forces Day in Rome on 4 November 1922. Italy entered the First World War in 1915 with the aim of completing national unity: for this reason, the Italian intervention in the First World War is also considered the Fourth Italian War of Independence, [2] in a historiographical ...
The year is marked by widespread bread riots all over Italy. The tariff on the duty on imported wheat is lowered from 75 lire a tonne to 50 lire. In 1897 the wheat harvest in Italy was substantially lower than the years before; it fell from on average 3.5 million tons in 1891–95 to 2.4 million tons that year.
In the same year the Italian Workers' Party was created, which in 1895 became the Italian Socialist Party. [13] In 1895 the intransigent republicans agreed to participate in the political life of the Kingdom, establishing the Italian Republican Party. Two years later, the far left reached its historical maximum level in Parliament with 81 ...