Timeline of Brescia

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brescia in the Lombardy region of Italy.

Prior to 15th century[]

  • 350 BCE – Celtic Cenomani take  [it; ] from the Etruscans (approximate date).[1]
  • 225 BCE – Gallic Cenomani Brixia allies with Rome.[2]
  • 89 BCE – Brixia "granted Latin citizenship."[3]
  • 49 BCE – Brixia granted "Roman citizenship."[3]
  • 7 CE – Brixia becomes part of the Regio X Venetia et Histria.[1]
  • 73 CE – Capitolium of Brixia built.[4]
  • 320 CE – Roman Catholic Diocese of Brescia established (approximate date).[5]
  • 387 – Gaudentius of Brescia becomes bishop.
  • 452 – Brescia sacked by forces of Attila.[4]
  • 562 – Lombards in power.[3]
  • 753 – San Salvatore monastery founded.[3]
  • 756 – Desiderius in power.[3]
  • 1135-1138 – The commune of Brescia revolts against the Bishop Manfred.[6]
  • 1139 - Bishop Manfred, having received Pope Innocent II's support, has Arnold of Brescia exiled.[6]
  • 1167 – Brescia joins Lombard League.[4]
  • 1222 – 25 December: 1222 Brescia earthquake.
  • 1235 – Broletto palace built.[2]
  • 1238 – Attempted siege by forces of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.[2]
  • 1258 – Scaligeri in power.[4]
  • 1266 – Charles of Anjou in power.[2]
  • 1339 – Visconti in power.[2]

15th–19th centuries[]

  • 1426 – Venetians in power.[4]
  • 1473 – Printing press in operation.[7][8]
  • 1478 – Plague.[9]
  • 1487 – Santa Maria dei Miracoli church construction begins.[3]
  • 1512 – 19 February: Sack of Brescia by French forces during the War of the League of Cambrai.[4](it)
  • 1563 – Accademia degli Occulti founded.[10]
  • 1574
    •  [it] built.[4]
    • Guazzo's Civil Conversazione (etiquette book) published in Brescia.[11]
  • 1604 – New Cathedral construction begins.[4]
  • 1745 – Biblioteca Queriniana (library) founded.[12]
  • 1769 – 18 August: Lightning causes explosion.
  • 1797 – Venetian rule ends; Brescia becomes part of the French client Cisalpine Republic.[1]
  • 1805 – Brescia becomes part of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.[3]
  • 1813 –  [it] (cemetery) established (approximate date).
  • 1814 – Austrians in power.[1]
  • 1848 – March: Political unrest.[1]
  • 1849 – Uprising against Austrian rule; crackdown.[4]
  • 1850 – August: Flood.[9]
  • 1859
    • June: Garibaldi and the Cacciatori delle Alpi military unit enter city.[1]
    • Brescia becomes part of the Kingdom of Sardinia.[13]
    • Provincial  [it] (district) established.
  • 1875 – Dismantling of city walls begins.[3]
  • 1882 –  [it] begins operating.
  • 1888 – Banca San Paolo di Brescia (bank) established.
  • 1897 – Population: 67,923.[14]

20th century[]

  • 1909 – Aerodrome built.
  • 1911 – Population: 83,338.[15]
  • 1925 –  [it] publisher in business.
  • 1927 – Mille Miglia car race begins.[16]
  • 1932 –  [it] remodelled.[1]
  • 1936 –  [it] begins operating.
  • 1944 – Bombing of Brescia in World War II.[3]
  • 1945
  • 1948 –  [it] becomes mayor (until 1975).
  • 1974
  • 1982 – University of Brescia established.[19]
  • 1992 – Paolo Corsini becomes mayor.
  • 1999 – Museo di Santa Giulia [it] (museum) established.[16]

21st century[]

See also[]

Timelines of other cities in the macroregion of Northwest Italy:(it)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Domenico 2002.
  2. ^ a b c d e Armstrong 2004.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Giuseppe Pinna. "Brescia". Oxford Art Online. Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 14 December 2016
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Britannica 1910.
  5. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  6. ^ a b Greenway, George William (1931). Arnold of Brescia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 51, 56–7.
  7. ^ Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
  8. ^ Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy: Brescia". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company.
  9. ^ a b Overall 1870.
  10. ^ James E. McClellan (1985). Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-05996-1.
  11. ^ Michael Wyatt, ed. (2014). "Timeline". Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. p. xxi+. ISBN 978-1-139-99167-4.
  12. ^ "(Comune: Brescia)".  [it] (Registry of Italian Libraries) (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  13. ^ Haydn 1910.
  14. ^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899 – via HathiTrust.
  15. ^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913.
  16. ^ a b "Storia di Brescia". Turismo Brescia (in Italian). Comune di Brescia. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  17. ^ a b "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
  18. ^ Zygmunt G. Baranski; Rebecca J. West, eds. (2001). "Chronology". Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55982-9.
  19. ^ Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 576+. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
  20. ^ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

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