Timeline of Pistoia
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Pistoia in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Prior to 17th century[]
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- 62 BCE - Battle of Pistoria fought near town.[1]
- 5th century CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Pistoia established.[2]
- 595 CE - Cattedrale di San Zeno dedicated.[3]
- 772 - built (approximate date).[3]
- 12th century - Church of Sant' Andrea expanded.[3]
- 1117 - Pistoia "defeated by Lucca."[4]
- 1150 - City walls expanded (approximate date).[3]
- 1240 - City walls rebuilt (approximate date).[3]
- 1294 - San Domenico church construction begins.[1]
- 1302-1306 - Pistoia besieged by Florentine and Luccan forces.[1]
- 1325 - Luccan Castruccio Castracani in power.[1]
- 1348 - Black Death plague.[5]
- 1353 - expanded (approximate date).[3]
- 1359 - Battistero di San Giovanni in corte (baptistery) built.[3]
- 1368 - built.[3]
- 1401 - Pistoia becomes part of the Florentine Republic.[6]
- 1494 - Basilica of Our Lady of Humility construction begins.[4]
17th-19th centuries[]
- 1630 - Plague outbreak.[6]
- 1642 - Accademia dei Risvegliati founded.
- 1643 - Pistoia besieged by papal forces.[6]
- 1694 - (theatre) built.[7]
- 1696 - Biblioteca Forteguerriana (library) founded.[8][9]
- 1726 - Biblioteca Fabroniana (library) founded.[9]
- 1786 - Religious Synod of Pistoia held.[7]
- 1849 - Pistoia occupied by Austrians.[6]
- 1851 - Pistoia railway station opens.
- 1860 - (administrative region) established.
- 1861 - Pistoia becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.[6]
- 1864 - Porrettana railway begins operating.
- 1881 - Population: 54,920.[7]
20th century[]
- 1921 - U.S. Pistoiese 1921 (football club) formed.
- 1927 - Administrative Province of Pistoia created.[4]
- 1931 - Population: 70,397.[7]
- 1943 - October: Bombing of Pistoia in World War II.
- 1966
- "Superachitettura" exhibit held.[10][11]
- Stadio Comunale (stadium) opens.
- 1969 - (transit entity) established.
- 1970 - Zoo di Pistoia established.
- 1971
- Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie in business.
- Population: 93,185.
- 1974 - Istituto Storico della Resistenza (historical institute) established.[12]
- 1980 - begins.
- 1992 - held; becomes mayor.
21st century[]
- 2001 - AnsaldoBreda engineering firm in business.
- 2002 - held; becomes mayor.
- 2003 - Associazione Storia e Città (history society) formed.
- 2005 - (transit entity) established.
- 2007 - (library) opens.[9]
- 2009 - (cultural entity) established.
- 2012 - Local election held; Samuele Bertinelli becomes mayor.
- 2013 - Population: 88,904.[13]
- 2015 - 31 May: 2015 Tuscan regional election held.
- 2017 - Local election held; Alessandro Tomasi becomes mayor.
See also[]
- History of Pistoia
- List of mayors of Pistoia
- List of bishops of Pistoia
- History of Tuscany
Other cities in the macroregion of Central Italy:(it)
- Timeline of Ancona, Marche region
- Timeline of Arezzo, Tuscany region
- Timeline of Florence, Tuscany
- Timeline of Livorno, Tuscany
- Timeline of Lucca, Tuscany
- Timeline of Perugia, Umbria region
- Timeline of Pisa, Tuscany
- Timeline of Prato, Tuscany
- Timeline of Rome, Lazio region
- Timeline of Siena, Tuscany
References[]
- ^ a b c d Britannica 1910.
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Kleinhenz 2004.
- ^ a b c Domenico 2002.
- ^ "La storia di Pistoia dalle origini al 1351" (in Italian). Comune di Pistoia. Retrieved 8 January 2017. (includes timeline)
- ^ a b c d e "La storia di Pistoia dal 1351 ai giorni nostri" (in Italian). Comune di Pistoia. Retrieved 8 January 2017. (includes timeline)
- ^ a b c d Treccani 1935.
- ^ "Storia della biblioteca". Biblioteca Comunale Forteguerriana (in Italian). Comune di Pistoia. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ a b c "(Comune: Pistoia)". (Registry of Italian Libraries) (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Gino Moliterno, ed. (2005) [2000]. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. ISBN 0203440250.
- ^ "Italian Peninsula, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell'età contemporanea in provincia di Pistoia" (in Italian). Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.
Bibliography[]
in English[]
- Edward Herbert Bunbury (1872) [1854]. "Pistoia". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- "Pistoia". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
- "Pistoia", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- "Pistoia", Northern Italy (14th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913
- David Herlihy (1967). Medieval and Renaissance Pistoia: the Social History of an Italian Town, 1200-1430. Yale University Press. OCLC 409178.
- Stephen J. Milner (2000). "Statutory division and supra-communal clientage in Pistoia". In William J. Connell; Andrea Zorzi (eds.). Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power. Cambridge University Press. pp. 312+. ISBN 0521591112.
- Roy Domenico (2002). "Tuscany: Pistoia". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 337+. ISBN 0313307334.
- Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. (2004). "Pistoia". Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 915+. ISBN 0415939291.
- Sarah Tiboni (2013). "Pistoia: a case study". In Frances Andrews (ed.). Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107044265.
in Italian[]
- M. Salvi. Historia di Pistoia. 1656-1662
- I. Fioravanti. Memorie storiche d. città di Pistoia, Lucca 1758
- G. Tigri. Pistoia ed il suo territorio, 1853
- Vittorio Capponi (1874). Bibliografia pistoiese. Pistoia: Rossetti. (Bibliography)
- "Pistoja". Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian). 17 (6th ed.). Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese. 1884.
- Carlo Lozzi (1887). "Storie de'Municipii: Pistoia". Biblioteca istorica della antica e nuova Italia (in Italian). 2. Imola. OCLC 12117233. (Bibliography)
- Bullettino storico pistoiese (in Italian), ISSN 0007-5809 1899-
- O. Giglioli. Pistoia nelle sue opere d'arte, Firenze 1904
- A. Chiappelli. Storia del teatro in Pistoia dalle origini alla fine del sec. XVIII, 1913
- "Pistoia", Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) (in Italian), 1935
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