Timeline of Salerno
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Salerno in the Campania region of Italy.
Prior to 20th century[]
Salerno capital of Normans' southern Italy in 1100
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- 197 BCE - Roman colony Salernum founded at site of former Etruscan town Irnthi.[1](it)
- 5th-7th century CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Salerno established.[2]
- 646 CE - Salerno becomes part of the Lombard Duchy of Benevento.[3]
- 774 CE - Duke Arechis II of Benevento relocates to Salerno.
- 851 - Principality of Salerno established.
- 870s - Salerno besieged by Arab forces.[4]
- 11th century - Schola Medica Salernitana (medical school) founded.[3]
- 1076 - Salerno taken by forces of Norman Robert Guiscard.[5]
- 1084 - Saint Matthew Cathedral consecrated.[6]
- 1150 - University founded.[6]
- 1194 - Salerno sacked by forces of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.[6]
- 1260 - Port of Salerno construction begins.[7]
- 1419 - Salerno becomes part of the Kingdom of Naples and administrative centre of its .[1]
- 1578 - Salerno sacked by "Muslim pirates."[1]
- 1656 - Plague.[5]
- 1688 - Earthquake.[5][8]
- 1694 - Earthquake.[5][8]
- 1799 - Salerno becomes part of the French client Parthenopean Republic.[5]
- 1817 - University closed.[6]
- 1843 - (library) founded.[9]
- 1860 - (administrative region) established.
- 1866 - Naples–Salerno railway begins operating; Salerno railway station opens.
- 1872 - opens.
- 1875 - Frusta newspaper begins publication.[10]
- 1895 - Salerno–Reggio Calabria railway in operation.
- 1896 - L'Eco newspaper begins publication.[11]
- 1897 - Population: 37,310.[12]
20th century[]
- 1902 - (railway) begins operating.
- 1911 - Population: 45,682.[13]
- 1919 - U.S. Salernitana 1919 (football club) formed.
- 1920 - (history society) founded.
- 1926 - Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport established.
- 1936 - Population: 67,186.(it)
- 1937 - begins operating.
- 1943 - 9 September: Salerno besieged by Allied forces during World War II.[5][1]
- 1944 - Salerno is Capital of Italy for some months
- 1946 - Festival del cinema di Salerno begins.
- 1954 - 25 October: .
- 1956 - Local election held; becomes mayor (until 1970).
- 1961 - Population: 117,363.(it)
- 1964 - (transit entity) formed.
- 1968 - University of Salerno established.
- 1971 - Population: 155,498.(it)
- 1982 - 26 August: occurs in the quartiere.
- 1990 - Stadio Arechi (stadium) opens.
- 1993 - Vincenzo De Luca becomes mayor.
- 1998 - (park) opens.[15]
21st century[]
- 2013
- Salerno metropolitan railway service begins operating.
- Population: 131,925.[16]
- 2016 - Vincenzo Napoli becomes mayor.
See also[]
- History of Salerno
- List of mayors of Salerno
- List of Princes of Salerno, 9th-16th centuries
- List of bishops of Salerno
- (state archives)
- Campania history (region)
Other cities in the macroregion of South Italy:(it)
- Timeline of Bari, Apulia region
- Timeline of Brindisi, Apulia
- Timeline of L'Aquila, Abruzzo region
- Timeline of Naples, Campania region
- Timeline of Reggio Calabria
- Timeline of Taranto, Apulia
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Domenico 2002.
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Valentino Pace. "Salerno". Oxford Art Online. Missing or empty
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Cenni storici" (in Italian). Comune di Salerno. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Britannica 1910.
- ^ Overall 1870.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Baratta 1901.
- ^ "(Comune: Salerno)". (Registry of Italian Libraries) (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
- ^ "Giornali e giornalisti", Almanacco Italiano (in Italian), Florence: , 1896, pp. 431+ (List of newspapers)
- ^ Henry Berger, ed. (1899), "Giornali Italiani (per ordine di localita): Salerno", Annuario della stampa italiana (in Italian), Milan
- ^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913.
- ^ Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.
- ^ "Parchi e Giardini" (in Italian). Comune di Salerno. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
- ^ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.
Bibliography[]
in English[]
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Salerno". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
- William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Salernum". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- Thomas Ashby (1910), "Salerno", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- "Salerno", Southern Italy and Sicily (16th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912
- Roy Domenico (2002). "Campania: Salerno". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 72+. ISBN 0313307334.
- Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. (2004). "Salerno". Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0415939291.
in Italian[]
- "Salerno", Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian), 19 (6th ed.), 1885
- (1901). "Distribuzione topografica dei terremoti italiani: Salernitano e Basilicata: Salerno". I terremoti d'Italia [Earthquakes in Italy] (in Italian). Turin: Fratelli Bocca.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (also includes chronology)
- "Salerno", Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) (in Italian), 1936
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