Timeline of Brindisi

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brindisi in the Apulia region of Italy.

Prior to 15th century[]

  • 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 –  [it] (church) built.[1]
  • 1089 –  [it] dedicated.[1]
  • 1192 –  [it] (fountain) installed.[1]
  • 1225 – Wedding of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella II of Jerusalem.[1]
  • 1227 –  [it] (castle) built.[1]
  • 1230 –  [it] (church) built.[6]
  • 1310 –  [it] (church) built.[6]
  • 1322 –  [it] (church) built.[6]
  • 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[]

20th century[]

  • 1905 – Harbour railway station built.[4]
  • 1911 – Population: 25,692.(it)
  • 1912 – F.B. Brindisi 1912 (football club) formed.
  • 1916 –  [it] (seaplane base) built in the Port of Brindisi.
  • 1923 – Brindisi – Salento Airport built.
  • 1927 – Administrative Province of Brindisi formed.[5]
  • 1931 –  [it] (war monument) erected.
  • 1933 –  [it] erected.[9]
  • 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 –  [it] (transit entity) formed.
  • 1979 –  [it] newspaper begins publication.[12]
  • 1991 – Population: 95,383.(it)

21st century[]

See also[]

Other cities in the macroregion of South Italy:(it)

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Barker 2004.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Haydn 1910.
  3. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Britannica 1910.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Domenico 2002.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c Pina Belli D’Elia. "Brindisi". Oxford Art Online. Missing or empty |url= (help) 21 January 2017
  7. ^  [it] (1901). I terremoti d'Italia [Earthquakes in Italy] (in Italian). Turin: Fratelli Bocca.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (includes chronology)
  8. ^ Berger 1899.
  9. ^ Comune di Brindisi. "Storia del comune". Città di Brindisi (in Italian). Halley Informatica. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  10. ^ Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.
  11. ^ "Archivio di Stato di Brindisi: L'Istituto" (in Italian). Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  12. ^ "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
  13. ^ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

in English[]

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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