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

They first appear in history in connection with the Gallic invasion of north Italy, 390 BC, when they made the Etruscan city of Felsina their new capital, Bononia ( Bologna ).

* The Charlie Chaplin Archive Online catalogue of Chaplin's professional and personal archives at the Cineteca di Bologna, Italy

One example is Santo Stefano in Bologna, Italy, an agglomeration of seven churches recreating shrines of Jerusalem.

The first university of Western civilization, the University of Bologna, is located in Italy, where until modern times the only degree granted was that of the doctorate, and all other Italian universities followed that model.

A depiction of the University of Bologna, Italy, founded in 1088.

In February 1753, after several years residing in Prussia he returned to Italy, living most of the time in Bologna.

According to the Bologna statistics of the European Union, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 65 million people in the EU ( 13 % of the EU population ), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million ( 3 %).

* 1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.

Reliquary of Saint Louis ( end 13th c .) Basilica of Saint Dominic, Bologna, Italy

Born in Milan, Italy, Lodovico's grandfather, Bartholomew Ferrari, was forced out of Milan to Bologna.

Lodovico settled in Bologna, Italy and he began his career as the servant of Gerolamo Cardano.

Malpighi was born on March 10, 1628 at Crevalcore near Bologna, Italy.

In 1363 he excommunicated Bernabò Visconti, the last great figure of Ghibellinism in northern Italy, who occupied the Papal city of Bologna and valiantly resisted the troops of Cardinal Gil de Albornoz, the Vicar of the Papal States at the time.

Even the scientific handling of law, which has grown up during medieval times in the new universities in Italy ( in particular in Bologna, Mantua ) did not come to a full and clear separation.

Facchinetti, whose family came from Crodo, in the diocese of Novara, northern Italy, was born in Bologna on 20 July 1519.

Albinoni seems to have no other connection with that primary musical establishment in Venice, however, and achieved his early fame as an opera composer at many cities in Italy, including Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Mantua, Udine, Piacenza, and Naples.

One theory relates the name " tarot " to the Taro River in northern Italy, near Parma ; the game seems to have originated in northern Italy, in Milan or Bologna.

The first known documented tarot cards were created between 1430 and 1450 in Milan, Ferrara and Bologna in northern Italy when additional trump cards with allegorical illustrations were added to the common four-suit pack.

Wim Wenders, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy

These watermarks were first introduced in Bologna, Italy, in 1282 (?

* August 2 – A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.

* The technology of watermarks is introduced by paper manufacturers of Bologna, Italy.

* 1282 – The technology of watermarks is introduced by paper manufacturers of Bologna, Italy.

File: Parco di Castello, fontana del Gennaio 1. JPG | Parco di Villa Reale di Castello ( Villa di Castello ) Fountain of January ( Fontana del Gennaio ) in Florence Italy

A red panda in the Parco Natura Viva, Bussolengo near Verona, Italy

Crocodile from Parco delle Cornelle, Italy

The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as the Castel Sant ' Angelo ( English: Castle of the Holy Angel ), is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy.

The oldest and biggest Chinatown of Italy is in Milan around Via Paolo Sarpi, located in the historical centre of the city close to Parco Sempione.

File: Saguinus oedipus. jpg | Cottontop Tamarin in Parco Le Cornelle, Valbrembo, Italy

* Pavarotti & friends for war child, a concert at Parco Novi Sad in Modena, Italy on 20 June 1996 and album to benefit War Child ( charity )

It is located in the Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini, Marche ( Italy ).

In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.

This time, however, he did not return to France, dying while on his way back, probably at Savona in Italy, on 21 August 1271.

* Brazil in World War II ( 1942 – 1945 ): Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany in August 1942 and in 1944 sent 25, 334 soldiers to fight in Italy.

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.

On 6 August 2010, Trenitalia announced its desire to eventually run high-speed trains from Italy to the United Kingdom, using its newly ordered high-speed trains.

Updated 8 August 2009 < http :// rictornorton. co. uk / hervey. htm ></ ref > Algarotti left for Italy and finished his Neutonianismo per le dame (" Newtonism for Ladies "), a work on optics ( 1737 ), dedicated to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

In August 2006 Italy sent about 3, 000 soldiers to Lebanon for the United Nations peacekeeping mission UNIFIL.

Blume announced she was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2012 after undergoing a routine ultrasound as she was preparing to leave for a five-week trip to Italy.

On 25 August 1939, Ribbentrop's influence with Hitler wavered for a moment when the news reached Berlin of the ratification of the Anglo-Polish military alliance and a personal message from Mussolini telling Hitler that Italy would dishonour the Pact of Steel if Germany attacked Poland.

In August 2008 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi signed an agreement to pay Libya $ 5 billion over 25 years – this was a " complete and moral acknowledgement of the damage inflicted on Libya by Italy during the colonial era ", the Italian prime minister said.

Fears of a Spanish Avignon based on the strength of his relationship with the Emperor as his former tutor and regent proved baseless, and Adrian left for Italy at the earliest opportunity, making his solemn entry into Rome on 29 August.

Callixtus was honoured as a martyr in Todi, Italy, on 14 August.

Already in 1059 he had persuaded Robert Guiscard and Richard of Capua to become vassals of St. Peter for their newly-conquered territories: now Gregory VII immediately after his election sent for him to give an account of the state of Norman Italy and entrusted him with the negotiation of an interview with Robert Guiscard on 2 August 1073, at Benevento.

In January 1131, he had also a favourable interview with Henry I of England, and in August 1132 Lothar III undertook an expedition to Italy for the double purpose of setting aside Anacletus as antipope and of being crowned by Innocent.

In August 1940, Northern Transylvania was awarded to Hungary by Germany and Italy through the Second Vienna Award.

The treaty was ratified by Turkey on 23 August 1923, Greece on 25 August 1923, Italy on 12 March 1924, and Japan on 15 May 1924.

Theodoric the Great (; ;, Theuderikhos ; ; ; 454 – August 30, 526 ) was king of the Ostrogoths ( 471 – 526 ), ruler of Italy ( 493 – 526 ), regent of the Visigoths ( 511 – 526 ), and a viceroy of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the " Esposizione Internazionale d ' Arte Cinematografica ", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy.

Italy began operations in the Mediterranean, initiating a siege of Malta in June, conquering British Somaliland in August, and making an incursion into British-held Egypt in September 1940.

Villeroi was now replaced by the Duc de Vendôme, who, despite the drawn Battle of Luzzara in August and a considerable numerical superiority, proved unable to drive Eugene from Italy.

* 1960 Summer Olympics August 25 to September 11, 1960, in Rome, Italy

* August 22 – WWII: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.