Italy timeline

Change Role

Apr 27, 1915

Although it is formerly aligned with Germany and Austria-Hungary , Italy enters World War I on the side of the Anglo-French Allies.

Enzo Ferrari

Jun 9, 1919

Enzo Ferrari, having no other job perspective, eventually settles for a job at a small car company called CMN redesigning used truck bodies into small passenger cars.

Versailles peace terms

Jun 28, 1919

The German-speaking inhabitants of South Tirol are incorporated within Italy under the Versailles peace terms

Luigi Pirandello

Apr 27, 1921

Within a five-week period the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello writes two masterpieces, Six Characters in Search of an Author immediately followed by Henry IV

Mussolini became the King

Mar 2, 1922

After the lack of a compromise between socialists and Christian-democrats, and the March on Rome of the fascist militias, Benito Mussolini is named by the King as prime minister of Italy

Victor Emmanuel III

Mar 26, 1922

The Italian king Victor Emmanuel III, alarmed at the prospect of a Fascist march on Rome, asks Mussolini to form a government

Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI

Apr 27, 1922

Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI

Italo Svevo

Apr 27, 1923

The Italian novelist Italo Svevo has his first great success when The Confessions of Zeno is published in France

Giacomo Matteotti is murdered

Apr 27, 1924

The Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is murdered by Mussolini's Fascists

Benito Mussolini

Dec 24, 1924

Benito Mussolini became the dictator and ruler of Italy

Grazia Deledda

Jul 6, 1926

The novelist Grazia Deledda is the first Italian woman who is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

non-Fascist political activity is banned

Apr 27, 1928

All non-Fascist political activity is banned in Italy, parliament being replaced with the Fascist Grand Council

Elsa Schiaparelli

Apr 27, 1931

Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli introduces a successful new line for women in the form of the padded shoulder

First World Cup Champion

Jul 21, 1934

The Italian national football team wins its first FIFA World Cup

Invaded Ethiopia

Oct 3, 1935

Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, resulting in an international alienation and leading to Italy's withdrawal from the League of Nations.

Galeazzo Ciano

Apr 27, 1936

Mussolini appoints his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as his minister for foreign affairs

Rome-Berlin Axis

Jul 22, 1936

Mussolini and Hitler signed the Rome-Berlin Axis .

Enrico Fermi

Jun 22, 1938

Enrico Fermi is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.

Second World Cup campion

Jul 20, 1938

The Italian national football team wins its second FIFA World Cup.