Timeline of Brindisi
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brindisi in the Apulia region of Italy.
Prior to 15th century[]
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- 266 BCE – Romans in power.[1]
- 244 BCE – Brundisium becomes a Roman colony.[2]
- 190 BCE – Appian Way (Rome-Brundisium) built (approximate date).[citation needed]
- 49 BCE – "Caesar attempted to bottle up his rival Pompey" in Brundisium.[1]
- 38 BCE – "Foedus brundissinum, a brief reconciliation between Mark Antony and Octavian" takes place in Brundisium.[1]
- 19 BCE – 21 September: Poet Virgil dies in Brundisium.[2]
- 109 CE – Via Traiana (Beneventum-Brundisium road) built.[1]
- 5th–6th century CE – Roman Catholic diocese of Brindisi established.[3]
- 7th century CE – Lombards in power.[1]
- 836 – Brindisi sacked by Saracens.[4]
- 867 – Brindisi taken by forces of Louis II of Italy.[5]
- 1071 – Normans in power.[4]
- 1080 – [1] (church) built.
- 1089 – [1] dedicated.
- 1192 – [1] (fountain) installed.
- 1225 – Wedding of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella II of Jerusalem.[1]
- 1227 – [1] (castle) built.
- 1230 – [6] (church) built.
- 1310 – [6] (church) built.
- 1322 – [6] (church) built.
- 1348 – Plague.[4]
- 1352 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I of Hungary.[1]
- 1383 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I, Duke of Anjou.[1]
- 1385 – Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini in power.[5]
15th–19th centuries[]
- 1456 – [7][4] .
- 1496 – Venetians in power.[1]
- 1509 – Venetian rule ends.[1]
- 1528 – One of Brindisi's collapses.
- 1743 – .
- 1860
- Brindisi becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.[5]
- (provincial district) established.
- 1861 – Population: 9,137.(it)
- 1865 – Brindisi railway station opens.
- 1866 – Adriatic railway (Lecce-Brindisi) begins operating.
- 1870 – Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company adds Brindisi to its route.[4]
- 1881 – Population: 16,618.(it)
- 1886 – Taranto–Brindisi railway begins operating.
- 1892 – Indipendente newspaper begins publication.[8]
20th century[]
- 1905 – Harbour railway station built.[4]
- 1911 – Population: 25,692.(it)
- 1912 – F.B. Brindisi 1912 (football club) formed.
- 1916 – Port of Brindisi. (seaplane base) built in the
- 1923 – Brindisi – Salento Airport built.
- 1927 – Administrative Province of Brindisi formed.[5]
- 1931 – (war monument) erected.
- 1933 – [9] erected.
- 1936 – Population: 41,699.(it)
- 1943 – September: Italian prime minister Badoglio and king Victor Emmanuel flee to Brindisi from Rome after the Armistice of Cassibile during World War II.[10]
- 1944 – February: Administrative seat of national government relocated from Brindisi to Salerno.[5]
- 1961 – Population: 70,657.(it)
- 1963 – Archivio di Stato di Brindisi (state archives) established.[11]
- 1969 – (transit entity) formed.
- 1979 – [12] newspaper begins publication.
- 1991 – Population: 95,383.(it)
21st century[]
- 2006 – Teatro Verdi (Brindisi) (theatre) opens.
- 2012 – 19 May: Brindisi school bombing.
- 2013 – Population: 88,611.[13]
- 2016 – June: Local election held; Angela Carluccio becomes mayor.
- 2018 – June: Local election held; Riccardo Rossi becomes mayor.
See also[]
- History of Brindisi
- List of mayors of Brindisi
- List of bishops of Brindisi
- region
Other cities in the macroregion of South Italy:(it)
- Timeline of Bari, Apulia region
- Timeline of L'Aquila, Abruzzo region
- Timeline of Naples, Campania region
- Timeline of Reggio Calabria
- Timeline of Salerno, Campania
- Timeline of Taranto, Apulia
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Barker 2004.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Haydn 1910.
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Britannica 1910.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Domenico 2002.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Pina Belli D’Elia. "Brindisi". Oxford Art Online. Missing or empty
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(help) 21 January 2017 - ^ I terremoti d'Italia [Earthquakes in Italy] (in Italian). Turin: Fratelli Bocca.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (includes chronology) (1901).
- ^ Berger 1899.
- ^ Comune di Brindisi. "Storia del comune". Città di Brindisi (in Italian). Halley Informatica. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ^ Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.
- ^ "Archivio di Stato di Brindisi: L'Istituto" (in Italian). Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ^ "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
- ^ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.
Bibliography[]
in English[]
- William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Brundisium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray – via HathiTrust.
- "Brindisi". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901 – via Internet Archive.
- "Brindisi", Southern Italy and Sicily (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1908
- Thomas Ashby (1910), "Brindisi", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, OCLC 14782424
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Brundisium", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- Italian Port Guide: Bari, Brindisi, Taranto. Washington, DC: United States Navy Department. 1979. hdl:2027/uiug.30112105110164.
- Roy Domenico (2002). "Apulia: Brindisi". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 23+. ISBN 0313307334.
- John W. Barker (2004). "Brindisi". In Christopher Kleinhenz (ed.). Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 157–158. ISBN 0415939291.
in Italian[]
- A. Della Monaca. Memoria historica dell’antichissima e fedelissima città di Brindisi (Lecce 1674)
- A. De Leo. Dell’antichissima città di Brindisi e suo celebre porto (Naples, 1846)
- "Brindisi". Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian). 4 (6th ed.). Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese. 1877.
- F. Ascoli. La storia di Brindisi (Rimini 1886)
- Henry Berger, ed. (1899), "Giornali Italiani (per ordine di localita): Brindisi", Annuario della stampa italiana (in Italian), Milan
- Touring Club Italiano. "Brindisi". Puglie. Guide Regionali Illustrate (in Italian). circa 1900?
- Guerrieri (1901). Gli Ebrei a Brindisi e a Lecce. Turin.
- "Brindisi", Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) (in Italian), 1930
- R. Alaggio. Brindisi medievale. Natura, Santi e Sovrani in una città di frontiera (Naples, 2009)
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