1907 in Italy

Events from the year 1907 in Italy.

Kingdom of Italy[]

• Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)
• Prime Minister – Giovanni Giolitti (1906–1909)
• Population – 33,952,000

Events[]

In 1907, the Banco di Roma founds a branch in Tripoli and builds significant interests in banking, shipping and agriculture. The bank has powerful connections; the president Ernesto Pacelli is the uncle of the future Pope Pius XII, and the vice-president is , the brother of Tommaso Tittoni, Italy's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister several times between 1903 and 1909. The bank also financed the important newspaper that would campaign for the Italo-Turkish War in 1911.^[1]
Emigration out of Italy is expected to reach 1 million, mainly to the United States. Minimum wages in the US are five times higher than in Italy and remittances are an important source of income.^[2]

January[]

Maria Montessori

• January 6 – Education reformer Maria Montessori opens her first Casa dei Bambini, or Children's House, in Rome.

April[]

• April 28 – The vulcano on the island of Stromboli is erupting large quantities of ash, damaging vineyards in Calabria and Sicily.^[3]

June[]

• June 22 – Bakers declare a general strike throughout the whole of Italy after the government postponed consideration of a bill prohibiting night work.^[4]

July[]

• July 15 – Former Minister of Public Instruction, , is imprisoned on charges of embezzling USD 300,000.^[5]
• July 21 – Hundreds are wounded in Palermo (Sicily) in a clash between crowds and the police at a demonstration in favour of Nunzio Nasi, former Minister of Public Instruction, charged with embezzlement.^[6]

August[]

Borghese (left) and Barzini (right) in the 1907 Peking to Paris race

• August 10 – Prince Scipione Borghese and , the prince's driver, win the Peking to Paris motor race with a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala, accompanied by journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr.

October[]

• October 23 – A magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes Calabria, at a depth of 33.0 km. The event caused 167 deaths and major damage. The town Ferruzzano was the epicentre where many houses collapsed almost completely, and 158 persons, or 8% of its population, were killed.^[7]

November[]

• November 11 – Due to financial difficulties in the United States, the stock exchange in Rome, unable to reverse a downward trend, is closed.^[8]
• November 17 – The area of Ferruzzano, Brancaleone and Bianco in Calabria was hit again by an earthquake.^[9]
• November 21 − Ernest Nathan is appointed the first Jewish mayor of Rome, after a victory of anti-clericals at the municipal elections.^[10]

Sports[]

• April 14 – Lucien Petit-Breton wins the first official edition of Milan–San Remo, organised by La Gazzetta dello Sport.
• April 22 – Felice Nazzaro wins the 1907 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.
• April 27 – A.C. Milan wins the 1907 Italian Football Championship.
• November 3 – Gustave Garrigou wins the Giro di Lombardia.

Births[]

• March 2 – Lea Schiavi, Italian dissident journalist writing for left-wing journals in opposition to the Italian fascist government led by Benito Mussolini (d. 1942)
• July 24 – Vitaliano Brancati, Italian novelist and screenwriter (d. 1954)
• August 31 – Altiero Spinelli, Italian political theorist and a European federalist (d. 1986)
• November 21 – Giorgio Amendola, Italian writer and politician (d. 1980)
• November 28 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (d. 1990)

Deaths[]

• January 19 – Giuseppe Saracco, Italian politician and Prime Minister (b. 1821)
• February 16 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1835)
• June 14 – Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Italian neo-impressionist painter (b. 1868)

References[]

• Clark, Martin (2008). Modern Italy: 1871 to the present, Harlow: Pearson Education, ISBN 1-4058-2352-6