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14 January – Hank Biasatti, basketball player (died 1996) 16 January – Ernesto Bonino, Italian pop and jazz singer whose peak of popularity was during the 1940s and 50s (d. 2008) 1 February - Renata Tebaldi, soprano (d. 2004) 5 March – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual (d. 1975)
159 Italian civilians killed by SS soldiers as reprisal for partisan activity Padule di Fucecchio massacre: 23 August 1944 Padule di Fucecchio, Tuscany 184 26th Panzer Division: Up to 184 Italian civilians as a reprisal for a partisan attack on two German soldiers. Massacre carried out by soldiers of the 26th Panzer Division. [76] Vinca massacre
The March on Rome (Italian: Marcia su Roma) was an organized mass demonstration in October 1922 which resulted in Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF) ascending to power in the Kingdom of Italy. In late October 1922, Fascist Party leaders planned a march on the capital.
Fascist Italy (Italian: Italia Fascista) is a term which is used in historiography to describe the Kingdom of Italy when it was governed by the National Fascist Party from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as prime minister and dictator.
The Second Italo-Senussi War, also referred to as the Pacification of Libya, was a conflict that occurred during the Italian colonization of Libya between Italian military forces (composed mainly by colonial troops from Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia) [4] and indigenous rebels associated with the Senussi Order.
1929: 3 January: Italian film director Sergio Leone is born. 1934: The Italy national football team wins its first FIFA World Cup. 1936: Following the invasion of Ethiopia, Italy is expelled from the League of Nations. Mussolini and Hitler signed the Rome-Berlin Axis. 1938: The Italy national football team wins its second FIFA World Cup.
Fascist austerity imposed from 1922 to 1928 resulted in workers' gross wage share tumbling back to 1913 levels by 1929, reversing the gains made during 1919–1920, when, according to political economist Clara Mattei, "average Italian nominal daily industrial wages quintupled (around a 400 percent increase) compared to their prewar levels" by ...
The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 2 June 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic.