The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.

* 1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian topographer ( d. 2001 )

* 2001 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer ( b. 1946 )

In Italy, FNC was launched on the now-defunct Italian digital satellite-television platform Stream TV in 2001.

Fabio Taglioni ( September 10, 1920 – July 18, 2001 ) was an Italian engineer.

In 2007, in a statement published by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Cossiga commented on the 11 September attacks and on a video attributed to Osama Bin Laden 2001.

* Keolker, James, " Last Acts, The Operas of Puccini and His Italian Contemporaries ", 2001.

In 2001, the Holy See had a revenue of 422. 098 billion Italian lire ( about 202 million USD at the time ), and a net income of 17. 720 billion Italian lire ( about 8 million USD ).

* Passeggiata in tram in America e ritorno ( 2001 ) ( text by Dino Campana ) for female Italian voice, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, electric guitar, electric violin, double bass, piano, percussion, 1998 ( also version for voice, flute, horn, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, amplified violin, double bass, piano

* 2001 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver ( b. 1937 )

* 1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer ( d. 2001 )

* Plumb, J. H., The Italian Renaissance, Houghton Mifflin, 2001, ISBN 0-618-12738-0

though the dance was " almost certainly of Italian origin " ( Brown 2001 ).

* Plumb, J. H. The Italian Renaissance ( 2001 ) excerpt and text search

Silvio Berlusconi (; born 29 September 1936 ) is an Italian politician and media tycoon who served three times as Prime Minister of Italy from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011.

* 1920 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer ( d. 2001 )

* Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600, University of California Press, 2001 ISBN 0-520-22131-1

In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).

** Giovanni Luigi Bonelli, Italian comic book author and writer ( d. 2001 )

* June 12 – Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author ( d. 2001 )

* August 10 – Franco Dino Rasetti, Italian scientist ( died 2001 )

* November 2 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer ( d. 2001 )

* December 23 – Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver ( d. 2001 )

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

* 2001 – The Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists.

Its capabilities and political implications were investigated by a committee of the European Parliament during 2000 and 2001 with a report published in 2001, and by author James Bamford in his books on the National Security Agency of the United States.

The report to the European Parliament of 2001 states: " If UKUSA states operate listening stations in the relevant regions of the earth, in principle they can intercept all telephone, fax and data traffic transmitted via such satellites.

In 2001 the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System recommended to the European Parliament that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy, because economic espionage with ECHELON has been conducted by the US intelligence agences.

In 2001, the party experienced a further crisis as some Green Members of Parliament refused to back the government's plan of sending military personnel to help with the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

In early 2001 Massoud addressed the European Parliament in Brussels asking the international community to provide humanitarian help to the people of Afghanistan.

He was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Huntingdon from 1979 to 2001.

In three subsequent elections to the Sejm, he ran all the time from Łódź, each time gaining more and more votes ( from 50 thousand in 1991 up to 146 thousand in 2001 ); he held a seat in Parliament till 2005.

The Natural Law Party never won any seats in Parliament, and was removed from the register of official political parties in February 2001.

The NLP did not run any candidates for Parliament in the 2001 general election or in the succeeding by-elections.

The circumstances in which Railtrack had been put into administration were highly controversial, with allegations in Parliament on 24 October 2005 that the company had not been insolvent at the time ( 7 October 2001 ) and therefore that the administration order had been wrongly obtained.

In March 2001, the ULP, led by Ralph Gonsalves, assumed power after winning twelve of the fifteen seats in Parliament.

In 2001, then treasurer, Michael Egan made a statement of public acknowledgment in Parliament.

In early 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud with ethnic leader from all of Afghanistan addressed the European Parliament in Brussels asking the international community to provide humanitarian help to the people of Afghanistan.

The assassination of Massoud is believed to have a connection to the September 11, 2001 attacks on U. S. soil, which killed nearly 3000 people, and which appeared to be the terrorist attack that Massoud had warned against in his speech to the European Parliament several months earlier.

Opposition parties won a majority of parliamentary seats in the December, 2001 election, but subsequent by-elections gave the ruling MMD a slim majority in Parliament.

On 27 June 2001, the Intelligence Services Act 2001 ( ISA ) was introduced into Parliament by then Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer, which proposed significant changes to the Australian Intelligence Community ( AIC ).

The Act was passed by Parliament on 29 October 2001.

On 15 October 2003, the Intelligence Services Amendment Bill 2003 was introduced into Parliament by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, as an amendment to the original Intelligence Services Act 2001 ( ISA ).

A large portion of the history of ASIS was adapted from the Parliament of Australia Bills Digest No. 11 of 2001 – 02 of Intelligence Services Act 2001