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400
St Paul
The city was among the first of the Italian peninsula to be influenced by Christianity, in fact St Paul in his third voyage that took him from Malta to Rome in AD 61 made a stop in Reggio Calabria -
410
Visigoths
Reggio Calabria sacked by the Visigoths -
Jun 6, 1000
Byzantines
The Byzantines expanded the castle of the city and built several fortresses -
Nov 21, 1001
Emirs from Palermo
The city was ruled by Emirs from Palermo but after 20 years returned to the Byzantines. -
Dec 4, 1039
The Norman of Guglielmo d'Altavilla
Prince of Salerno Guaimario IV, an ally of the Byzantines, sent Norman knights led by Guglielmo d'Altavilla. -
Jul 7, 1059
The Normans of Roberto il Guiscardo
The Normans of Roberto il Guiscardo attempted to take possession of the city but failed. -
Nov 18, 1267
The Angevins
The city was conquered by the Angevins and suffered a worsening of their economic conditions. -
Aug 13, 1282
The alliance with the Aragonese
During the Sicilian Vespers Reggio formed an alliance with the Aragonese trying unsuccessfully to free itself from Angevins. -
Apr 8, 1502
The Spanish conquest
During the war between Spain and France, the city was conquered by the Spaniards. -
Jun 11, 1512
The city was sacked by the Turks
The city was sacked by the Turks commanded by Barbarossa -
The plague
The city was hit by an epidemic of plague, that decimated the population -
Earthquake
The city was partially destroyed by a strong earthquake -
Bombing
Reggio was bombarded by the English fleet -
Uprisings
"Moti risorgimentali" -
The Battle of "Piazza Duomo"
By the Battle of "Piazza Duomo" Reggio was conquered by Garibaldini of Garibaldi thus becoming part of Kingdom of Italy -
Earthquake of 1908
The city was destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake and a tsunami. -
THE RECONSTRUCTION
Starting the reconstruction of Reggio Calabria -
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
The city was bombed by Anglo - American allies -
"MOTI OF REGGIO CALABRIA"
With the establishment of the Calabria Region, the city of Catanzaro was chosen as the capital of the Region and in Reggio there were protest movements, that caused several victims. Tis protest was called "MOTI OF REGGIO". -
"SPRING OF REGGIO"
By the and of the 80 begain the "Spring of Reggio", a revival of cultural and social, that thanks to the efforts of the then mayor Italo Falcomatà. -
Arab period
The city was conquered by the Arabs who massacred the inhabitants and killed the bishop -
Byzantines
The city was taken by the Byzantines, who made it the administrative center of southern Italy whit the title of capital of the Duchy of Calabria
