Italy 1896-1043

By Roryindeed

  • Italy joins Triple Alliance

    This was between Italy, Germany and Austro-Hungary

  • Pope foorbids Catholics from standing for parliment and voting

    This was because the liberal state had taken away the Pop's Papal States, and the liberal state was viewed as having policies that were against catholic values.

  • Wheat tariff introduced

  • Three yers scool becomes compulsory

  • First Italian sugar refinery set up

    The north is becoming more industialised
  • Period: to

    Giolitti prime minister

  • Local government francise widened

  • Milan Programme for social issues (Catholic)

    This wanted to counter socialism with Christian democracy. Eventhough Catholics were prevented from voting, it did not count for local elections, and the catholics ddeveloped quite a presence. This was mainly in reply to socialism.

  • Italian Socialist Party formed

    Turati brought together lots of different socialist groups, and created some cohesion, however there was still differences between those who wanted to follow a route of change through parliment and those who wanted revolution.

  • Defeat of Italian army at Adowa, Crispi resigns as prime minister

    This was an embarrassing defeat against the Abyssinian army.
  • Period: to

    Antonio Starabba prime minister

  • Government crack down on Catholic activists

    They government closed down many Catholic institutions and shut down catholic news papers.

  • 50,000 kW of hydroelectric power produced

  • Luigi Pellous prime minister

    This was a contraversial appointment because he was a General. He tried to push through measures limiting freedom and undermining the liberal constitution. There was some physical fighting the in Chamber of Deputies. An election shouwed huge gains for the left.

  • Riots in Milan

  • FIAT established

  • King Umerto assassinated

  • Giolotti minister of the interior

  • Women's working day limited to 11 hours and child labour under 12 prohibited

  • General strike

  • Compulsory rest day each week introduced

  • 71 car manufacturers operating in Italy

  • Olivetti typewriter production starts

  • 41 suger refineries operating

  • War declared on Turkey

  • Sufferage massively extended

  • FIAT begins production of cheap mass-produced cars

  • Red week

  • 1 mil kW of hydroelectric power produced

  • Antonio Saladra formed a new government

  • WW1, Italy declares neutrality

  • Period: to

    WW1

  • Benito Mussolini expelled from Social Party after callin for intervention

  • Italy signed treaty of London with Entente

    This promised the Italians that they would gain lots of sections of land that they wanted to. It is one of the main reasons Italy entered the war.

  • Intervention crisis, Italy declares war on Austro-Hungary

    It would be embarrasing to enter the war after signing the Treaty of London, so against the general feeling from parliment they did, as it could have also have forced the king to abdicate. Interventionist demonstrations were also taking place.
    This fostered the interventionism myth.

  • Italian army captured at Gorizia, Italy declares war on Germany

    Up until this point Italy had been at stalemate .

  • Italian defeat at Caporetto, Orlando forms a new government

  • Italian victory at Vittorio Veneto

  • End of WW1

  • Universal male sufferage

  • PPI founded

  • Fsci di Combattimento founded

  • Nitti prime minister, food riots in north and central Italy

  • PR introduced

  • Treaty of St. Germain signed, D'Annunzio occupies Fume

  • Socialist Party endorsed policy of revolution

  • First electrion under new system, lierals lost control of the chamber

  • Italian fascist movement failed to win seat

  • Fascist violence in Trieste

  • Worker occupation of factories

  • Treaty of Rapollo signed

  • Socialists go well in regional elections

  • Italian government ends occupation of Fiume by force

  • PCI formed

  • Fascists joined National Block for election

  • Mussolini signed Pact of Pacification with PSI and General Confederation of Labour

  • 24-hour general strike by socialist trade unions, republicans and radicals

  • Fascist March on Rome, Mussolini prime minister

  • Mussolini granted emergency decree powers

  • Fascist grand council established

  • MVSN founded

  • Acerbo Law passed

  • Fascist has majority at election

  • PSU deputy Matteotti murdered

  • OND founded

  • Mussolini becomes Duce

  • Mussolini rules by decree

  • ONB

  • Fascist one-party state created, OVRA and Special Triunal created, anti-fascist publications banned

  • Teachers made to take oath of loyalty

  • Professors had to take oath of loyalty

  • Rosselli brothers murdered

  • Anti-Semitic legislation introduced