* 2009 – A 6. 3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L ' Aquila, Italy, killing 307.

* 2010 – A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.

* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

* 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona ( Northern Italy ) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

* 1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.

* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

* 1945 – World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.

* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

He enhanced this by bribing the German king Henry IV with 360, 000 gold pieces to attack the Normans in Italy, which forced the Normans to concentrate on their defenses at home in 1083 – 1084.

* 476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes ( Herulic-Scirian foederati ), is proclaimed rex Italiae (" King of Italy ") by his troops.

Andrea Andreani ( 1540 – 1623 ) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.

* 489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.

* 1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.

* 1902 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy ( d. 1981 )

* 1341 – Sack of Saluzzo ( Italy ) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.

* 1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.

* 1945 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.

" Italy ", says he, in writing of the occurrence to a friend, " Italy is my country – is the country and native soil of the arts.

Early plate in Italy, and elsewhere in the 13th – 15th century were made of iron.

* 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician and statesman, Prime Minister of Italy ( b. 1873 )

* 1866 – Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire.

* 1810 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian diplomat and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy ( d. 1861 )

Their first honour outside of Italy was recorded in 1960 – 61 when Roma won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup by beating Birmingham City 4 – 2 in the finals.

Published by the presiding praetor, it states the substance of a decree of the Roman Senate prohibiting the Bacchanalia throughout all Italy, except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.

Published on a weekly basis, it not only serves the students and faculty of the various colleges of the university in the United States and Italy, but it also serves the northside Chicago neighborhoods of Edgewater and Rogers Park and has a readership that extends through the twenty-eight member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

Published in various countries in magazines that ranged from monthly to fortnightly, Pepito proved surprisingly more popular outside of Italy than in its country of origin.

Published in Turin, it is distributed in Italy and other European nations.

* Lonigo in Italy since 1999

As part of the continuing investigations, police raids of social centers, media centers, union buildings, and law offices have continued across Italy since the G8 summit in Genoa.

*-Forlì, Italy, since 1990

*-Venezia, Italy, since 1998

This policy has been in place since late 2004 but excludes the EU countries ( namely, Slovenia and Italy ).

At one point, almost every major city in the US had a velodrome or two for track racing events, however since the middle of the 20th century cycling has become a minority sport in the US whilst in Continental Europe it continues to be a major sport, particularly in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.

A Discourse of Sallets: " Sellery, apium Italicum, ( and of the Petroseline Family ) was formerly a stranger with us ( nor very long since in Italy ) is an hot and more generous sort of Macedonian Persley or Smallage ... and for its high and grateful Taste is ever plac'd in the middle of the Grand Sallet, at our Great Men's tables, and Praetors feasts, as the Grace of the whole Board ".

The word has been used to refer to a gun since 1326 in Italy, and 1418 in England.

Rommel could afford these losses even less since shipments from Italy had been substantially reduced ( in June, he received of supplies compared with in May and 400 vehicles compared with 2, 000 in May ).

It caused a great stir on its arrival in Florence, being reputedly the first living giraffe to be seen in Italy since antiquity.

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

Some scholars have observed that revenge tragedies come from traditionally Catholic countries, such as Spain and Italy ; and they present a contradiction, since according to Catholic doctrine the strongest duty is to God and family.

Italy has been a democratic republic since 2 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum ( see birth of the Italian Republic ).

Even though many repeat the cliché that Italy had over fifty governments in its first fifty years of democracy to stigmatise its alleged political instability, Italy's main political problem was actually the opposite: in all the course of the so-called First Republic, the government was in the hands of the Christian Democrats and their allies, since it was unacceptable for a communist party to rule a western country during the Cold war.

The Unification of Italy in 1861-70 broke down the feudal land system that had survived in the South since Middle Ages, especially where land had been the inalienable property of aristocrats, religious bodies, or the king.

Italy has always had a distinctive dialect for each city, since the cities, until recently, were thought of as city-states.

Rioplatense Spanish, and particularly the speech of the city of Buenos Aires, has intonation patterns that resemble those of Italian languages, because Argentina has had a continuous large influx of Italian settlers since the second half of the nineteenth century: initially primarily from northern Italy ; then, since the beginning of the twentieth century, mostly from southern Italy.

Finding himself on his own, since his father and uncle had more or less disowned him, the teenage Rousseau supported himself for a time as a servant, secretary, and tutor, wandering in Italy ( Piedmont and Savoy ) and France.

Founded in 1897 as Sport Club Juventus by a group of young Torinese students, among them, who was their first president, Eugenio Canfari, and his brother Enrico, author of the company's historical memory ; they are managed by the industrial Agnelli family since 1923, which constitutes the oldest sporting partnership in Italy, thus making Juventus the first professional club in the country.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

His favorite holiday place to do this was in Cadenabbia, Italy, in a rented villa overlooking Lake Como, which has since been acquired as a conference centre by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the political foundation established by Adenauers political party Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ).