Timeline of Mantua

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

Prior to 17th century[]

3rd century BCE - Romans in power.^[1]
601 CE - Forces of Lombard Agilulf take Mantua.^[2]
804 CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Mantua established.^[3]
977 - Canossa in power.^[1]
1007 - Boniface III in power.
1090 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor in power.^[2]
1113 - Forces of Matilda of Tuscany take Mantua.^[2]
1115 - Mantua becomes a "quasi-independent commune."^[1]
1150 - [it] begins circulating.^{[citation needed]}
1167 - Mantua joins the Lombard League.^[4]}
1236 - Forces of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor attempt to take Mantua.^[2]
1272 - Bonacolsi in power (until 1328).^[1]
1281 - Tower built.
1328
- Ludovico I Gonzaga in power.^[2]
- Ducal palace, Mantua built.^[2]
1400 - Public clock installed (approximate date).^[5]
1403 - Mantua Cathedral rebuilt.^[6]
1406 - Castle of St. George (Mantua) built.^[2]
1423 - "Latin grammar school" established by Vittorino da Feltre.^[7]
1444 - Ludovico II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua in power.^[8]
1460 - Artist Andrea Mantegna moves to Mantua.^[4]
1472
- Printing press in operation.^[9]^[10]
- Rebuilding of the Basilica of Sant'Andrea begins.^[4]
1480 - Poliziano's [it] premieres in Mantua.^[7]
1484 - Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua in power.^[8]
1490 - Isabella d'Este becomes wife of Francesco II.^[8]
1530 - Duchy of Mantua established.^[1]
1535 - Palazzo del Te built near Mantua.^[2]
1584 - Jesuit college established.^[11]^(it)

17th-19th centuries[]

1607 - Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo premieres in Mantua.^[12]
1625 - Jesuit Pacifico Ginnasio Mantovano (university) established.^[11]
1630
- City sacked by Austrian forces during the War of the Mantuan Succession.^[2]
- Plague.^[6]
1631 - War of the Mantuan Succession ends; Mantuan Gonzaga-Nevers rulers become "vassals of Vienna" per Treaty of Cherasco.^[1]
1664 - Gazzetta di Mantova newspaper begins publication.^[13]
1686 - [it] founded.^[14]
1708 - Austrians in power.^[1]
1737 - Mantua becomes part of Lombardy.^[1]
1767 - Teatro Bibiena built.^[6]
1768 - "Reale Accademia di Scienze e Belle Lettere" (now, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti) founded.^[15]
1779 - "Museum of antiquities" established.^[2]
1780 - Biblioteca Teresiana (library) established.^[2]^[16]
1796 - 4 June: Siege of Mantua (1796–97) by French forces begins.^[4]
1797
- 2 February: Siege of Mantua ends; French win.^[1]
- City becomes seat of the "Mincio department in Napoleon's puppet Cisalpine Republic."^[1]
1799 - Siege of Mantua (1799) by Austrian forces; Austrians win.^[2]
1801 - French in power again per Treaty of Lunéville.^[2]
1809 - Economic unrest.^[4]
1814 - Austrians in power again.^[2]
1822 - [it] built.^[17]
1853 - Political dissidents executed at nearby Belfiore during the Italian unification movement.^[4]
1866 - Mantua becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.^[4]
1868 - [it] (state archives) established.^[18]
1871 - Banca Agricola Mantovana (bank) in business.
1873 - Mantova railway station opens.
1884 - Economic unrest; military crackdown.^[4]
1886 - [it] begins operating.
1887 - [it] newspaper begins publication.^[19]
1897 - Population: 29,743.^[20]

20th century[]

1905 - [it] demolished.^[6]
1908 - [it] begins operating.^[21]
1911
- Mantova F.C. (football club) formed.
- Population: 32,657.^[22]
1913 - Chamber of Commerce built.^[6]
1930 - Virgil monument erected.^[6]
1934 - [it] (railway) begins operating.
1949
- [it] (bus) begins operating.^[21]
- Stadio Danilo Martelli (stadium) opens.
1971 - Population: 65,703.^{[citation needed]}
1973 - Gianni Usvardi becomes mayor.

21st century[]

2005 - [it] arena opens.
2006 - Mincio Cycleway constructed between Peschiera del Garda and Mantua.
2012 - May: Earthquake.
2013 - Population: 47,223.^[23]
2015 - Mattia Palazzi becomes mayor.

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Domenico 2002.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Britannica 1910.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Lamontagne 1995.
^ [de] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Mantua". Oxford Art Online. Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 7 December 2016
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Michael Wyatt, ed. (2014). "Timeline". Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. p. xxi+. ISBN 978-1-139-99167-4.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Venice and Northern Italy, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
^ Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel (ed.). The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
^ Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy: Mantova". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Paul F. Grendler (2009). The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9783-2.
^ Radio 3. "Opera Timeline". BBC. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
^ "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
^ James E. McClellan (1985). "Official Scientific Societies: 1600-1793". Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia University Press. p. 261+. ISBN 978-0-231-05996-1.
^ Maylender, Michele (1930). Storia delle accademie d'Italia. Vol. 5. Bologna: L. Cappelli. pp. 469–477.
^ "Storia della Biblioteca". Biblioteca Teresiana (in Italian). Comune di Manova. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
^ Restori 1919.
^ "Archivio di Stato di Mantova". Guida generale degli Archivi di Stato italiani (in Italian). Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
^ Castagnoli 2002.
^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899 – via HathiTrust.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Da 60 anni trasportati dall'Apam", Gazzetta di Mantova (in Italian), 14 July 2013
^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913.
^ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 7 December 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

Virgil. "Part 10". Aeneid. (description of Mantua)

in English[]

William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Mantua". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
"Mantua", Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy (16th ed.), London: John Murray, 1897, OCLC 2231483
"Mantua". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
Ismar Elbogen (1904), "Mantua", Jewish Encyclopedia, 8, New York
"Mantua", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Mantua", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
Edward Hutton (1912), "Mantua", Cities of Lombardy, New York: Macmillan Co.
"Mantua", Northern Italy (14th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913 + 1870 ed.
Egerton R. Williams Jr. (1914), "Mantova (etc.)", Lombard Towns of Italy, London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Monique Lamontagne (1995). "Mantua". In Trudy Ring; Robert M. Salkin (eds.). Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 416–419. ISBN 1884964052.
Roy Domenico (2002). "Lombardy: Mantua". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 197+. ISBN 0313307334.
Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. (2004). "Mantua". Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0415939291.
David S. Chambers (2010). "The Gonzaga Signoria, communal institutions, and the 'honour of the city': mixed ideas in quattrocento Mantua". In John E. Law; Bernadette Paton (eds.). Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6508-3.
Charles M. Rosenberg, ed. (2010). Court Cities of Northern Italy: Milan, Parma, Piacenza, Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna, Urbino, Pesaro, and Rimini. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79248-6.

in Italian[]

Leopoldo Cammillo Volta. Compendio cronologico-critico della storia di Mantova dalla sua fondazione sino ai nostri tempi (in Italian). 1807-1837 (5 volumes)
[it] (1865). Storia di Mantova dalla sua origine fino all' anno 1860 (in Italian). E. Caranenti.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Giovanni Battista Intra (1882). Dell' archivio storico mantovano (in Italian). Milan: L. Bortolotti.
"Mantova". Piemonte, Lombardia, Canton Ticino. Guida d'Italia (in Italian). Milan: Touring Club Italiano. 1916. p. 453+. hdl:2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t1rf92c9w.
Vasco Restori (1919). Mantova; notizie storico-artistiche sotto forma di guida (in Italian).
G. Coniglio; L. Mazzoldi (eds.). Mantova: La storia (in Italian). 1958–1963 (3 volumes)
Carlo A. Ferandini; E.O. Zavatti (1973), Mantova, l'aviazione mantovana e il Migliaretto nei secoli, Tradizioni aeronautiche delle citta italiane (Aeronautical Traditions of Italian Towns) (in Italian), Rome: [it], OCLC 19127680
Luigi Cavazzoli. La gente e la guerra. La vita quotidiana del fronte interno: Mantova, 1940-1945 (Milan: Angeli, 1989).
Clara Castagnoli; Giancarlo Ciaramelli, eds. (2002). Un secolo di stampa periodica mantovana: 1797-1897 (in Italian). Milan: FrancoAngeli. ISBN 978-88-464-3756-3.
Giada Bologni and Giorgio Casamatti. Bombe su Mantova: La città e la provincia durante i bombardamenti (1943-1945) (Parma: MUP, 2009)

External links[]

"Archivio Comunale" (in Italian). Comune di Mantova. (city archives)
Biblioteca Teresiana. "Biblioteca Digitale: Storia di Mantova" (in Italian). Comune di Mantova.
Items related to Mantua, various dates (via Europeana)
Items related to Mantua, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

[FOOTNOTEDomenico2002-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Domenico 2002.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Britannica 1910.

[katolsk-3] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 6 December 2016.

[FOOTNOTELamontagne1995-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Lamontagne 1995.

[Rossum1996-5] [de] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[OxfordArt-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Mantua". Oxford Art Online. Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 7 December 2016

[Wyatt2014-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b Michael Wyatt, ed. (2014). "Timeline". Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. p. xxi+. ISBN 978-1-139-99167-4.

[MMA-eustn08-8] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Venice and Northern Italy, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 7 December 2016.

[9] Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel (ed.). The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.

[10] Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy: Mantova". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company.

[Grendler2009-11] Jump up to: ^a ^b Paul F. Grendler (2009). The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9783-2.

[bbc-opera-12] Radio 3. "Opera Timeline". BBC. Retrieved 7 December 2016.

[europa2003-13] "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.

[McClellan1985-14] James E. McClellan (1985). "Official Scientific Societies: 1600-1793". Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia University Press. p. 261+. ISBN 978-0-231-05996-1.

[15] Maylender, Michele (1930). Storia delle accademie d'Italia. Vol. 5. Bologna: L. Cappelli. pp. 469–477.

[16] "Storia della Biblioteca". Biblioteca Teresiana (in Italian). Comune di Manova. Retrieved 7 December 2016.

[FOOTNOTERestori1919-17] Restori 1919.

[18] "Archivio di Stato di Mantova". Guida generale degli Archivi di Stato italiani (in Italian). Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Retrieved 6 December 2016.

[FOOTNOTECastagnoli2002-19] Castagnoli 2002.

[20] "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899 – via HathiTrust.

[Apam-21] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Da 60 anni trasportati dall'Apam", Gazzetta di Mantova (in Italian), 14 July 2013

[22] "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913.

[23] "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 7 December 2016.

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Contents

Prior to 17th century[]

17th-19th centuries[]

20th century[]

21st century[]

See also[]

References[]

Bibliography[]

in English[]

in Italian[]

External links[]