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(Top) 1 Prior to 15th century 2 15th–19th centuries 3 20th century 4 21st century 5 See also 6 References 7 Bibliography 7.1 in English 7.2 in Italian 8 External links

Timeline of Brindisi

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brindisi in the Apulia region of Italy.

Prior to 15th century[edit]

Prehistoric Italy

Nuragic civilization (18th–3rd c. BC)

Etruscan civilization (12th–6th c. BC)

Magna Graecia (8th–3rd c. BC)

Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC)

Republic (509 BC–27 BC)

Empire (27 BC–286 AD)

Western Empire (286 AD–476 AD)

Praetorian prefecture of Italy

Odoacer's	476–493
Ostrogothic	493–553
Vandal	435–534
Lombard (independence)	565–774
Lombard (under the Frankish rule)	774–885
Frankish (as part of the Carolingian Empire)	885–961
Germanic (as part of the Holy Roman Empire)	961–1801

Italy in the Middle Ages

Byzantine reconquest of Italy (6th–8th c.)

Islam and Normans in southern Italy

Maritime republics and Italian city-states

Guelphs and Ghibellines

Italian Renaissance (14th–16th c.)

Italian Wars (1494–1559)

Catholic revival (1545–1648)

Mid-16th c. to early 19th c.

Napoleonic Italy (1801–1814)

- Republic

Kingdom

Risorgimento (1815–1871)

Young Italy

Monarchy (1861–1946)

Colonial Empire (1882–1960)

Italy in World War I (1914–1918)

Fascism (1922–1943)

Italy in World War II (1940–1945)

Fascist Italian Social Republic, Partisans and Italian Civil War (1943–1945)

Republic (1946–present)

Years of Lead (1970s–1980s)

Maxi Trial (1986–1992)
Mani pulite (1992–2001)
Great Recession (2007–2009)
European migrant crisis (2014–2016)
COVID-19 pandemic (2020–present)

Citizenship

266 BCE – Romans in power.^[1]
244 BCE – Brundisium becomes a Roman colony.^[2]
190 BCE – Appian Way (Rome-Brundisium) built (approximate date).
49 BCE – The Siege of Brundisium occurs during Caesar's civil war. Caesar fails to prevent Pompey from crossing the Adriatic Sea.^[1]
40 BCE - The Treaty of Brundisium is signed after skirmishes between troops of Octavian and Mark Antony. The treaty places the western Roman territory in Gaul and Illyricum under Octavian influence.^[3]
38 BCE – "Foedus brundissinum, a brief reconciliation between Mark Antony and Octavian" takes place in Brundisium.^[1]
19 BCE – 21 September: Poet Virgil dies in Brundisium.^[2]
109 CE – Via Traiana (Beneventum-Brundisium road) built.^[1]
5th–6th C. CE – Roman Catholic diocese of Brindisi established.^[4]
7th C. CE – Lombards in power.^[1]
836 – Brindisi sacked by Saracens.^[5]
867 – Brindisi taken by forces of Louis II of Italy.^[6]
1071 – Normans in power.^[5]
1080 – Chiesa di San Benedetto (Brindisi) [it] (church) built.^[1]
1089 – Brindisi Cathedral [it] dedicated.^[1]
1192 – Fontana Tancredi [it] (fountain) installed.^[1]
1225 – Wedding of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella II of Jerusalem.^[1]
1227 – Castello svevo (Brindisi) [it] (castle) built.^[1]
1230 – Chiesa del Cristo (Brindisi) [it] (church) built.^[7]
1310 – Chiesa di Santa Maria del Casale [it] (church) built.^[7]
1322 – Chiesa di San Paolo eremita [it] (church) built.^[7]
1348 – Plague.^[5]
1352 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I of Hungary.^[1]
1383 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I, Duke of Anjou.^[1]
1385 – Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini in power.^[6]

15th–19th centuries[edit]

1456 – 1456 Central Italy earthquakes.^[8]^[5]
1496 – Venetians in power.^[1]
1509 – Venetian rule ends.^[1]
1528 – One of Brindisi's Roman columns [it] collapses.
1734 - Francisco José de Ovando, 1st Marquis of Brindisi captures the castle of Brindisi.
1743 – 1743 Salento earthquake.
1860
- Brindisi becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.^[6]
- Circondario di Brindisi [it] (provincial district) established.
1861 – Population: 9,137.^(it)
1865 – Brindisi railway station opens.
1866 – Adriatic railway (Lecce-Brindisi) begins operating.
1870
- Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company adds Brindisi to its route.^[5]
- Brindisi Marittima railway station opened (closed in 2006).^[5]
1871 – Population: 13,755.^[5]
1881 – Population: 16,618.^(it)
1886 – Taranto–Brindisi railway begins operating.
1892 – Indipendente newspaper begins publication.^[9]
1898 – Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company deletes Brindisi from its route.^[5]

20th century[edit]

1901 – Population: 25,317.^[5]
1905 – Harbour railway station built.^[5]
1911 – Population: 25,692.^(it)
1912 – F.B. Brindisi 1912 (football club) formed.
1916 – Idroscalo di Brindisi [it] (seaplane base) built in the Port of Brindisi.
1923 – Brindisi – Salento Airport built.
1927 – Administrative Province of Brindisi formed.^[6]
1931 – Monumento ai caduti della prima guerra mondiale (Brindisi) [it] (war monument) erected.
1933 – Monumento al Marinaio d'Italia [it] erected.^[10]
1934 - Brindisi Airport commercial flights start.
1936 – Population: 41,699.^(it)
1943 – September: Italian prime minister Badoglio and king Victor Emmanuel flee to Brindisi from Rome after the Armistice of Cassibile during World War II.^[11]
1944 – February: Administrative seat of national government relocated from Brindisi to Salerno.^[6]
1961 – Population: 70,657.^(it)
1963 – Archivio di Stato di Brindisi (state archives) established.^[12]
1969 – Azienda Municipalizzata Autotrasporti Brindisi [it] (transit entity) formed.
1979 – Quotidiano di Brindisi [it] newspaper begins publication.^[13]
1991 – Population: 95,383.^(it)

21st century[edit]

2006 – Teatro Verdi (Brindisi) (theatre) opens.
2012 – 19 May: Brindisi school bombing.
2013 – Population: 88,611.^[14]
2016 – June: Local election held; Angela Carluccio becomes mayor.
2018 – June: Local election held; Riccardo Rossi becomes mayor.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Barker 2004.

^ ^a ^b Haydn 1910.

^ Pelling, C (1996). "The triumviral period". In Bowman, Alan K; Champlin, Edward; Lintott, Andrew (eds.). The Augustan empire, 43 BC–AD 69. Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. 10 (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–69. ISBN 0-521-26430-8.

^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Britannica 1910.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Domenico 2002.

^ ^a ^b ^c Pina Belli D’Elia. "Brindisi". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) 21 January 2017

^ Mario Baratta [in Italian] (1901). I terremoti d'Italia [Earthquakes in Italy] (in Italian). Turin: Fratelli Bocca. (includes chronology)

^ Berger 1899.

^ Comune di Brindisi. "Storia del comune". Città di Brindisi (in Italian). Halley Informatica. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

^ Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.

^ "Archivio di Stato di Brindisi: L'Istituto" (in Italian). Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

^ "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.

^ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography[edit]

in English[edit]

William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Brundisium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cuq – via HathiTrust.
"Brindisi". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
"Brindisi", Southern Italy and Sicily (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1908
Ashby, Thomas (1910). "Brindisi" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). pp. 571–572.
Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Brundisium", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t41r6xh8t
Italian Port Guide: Bari, Brindisi, Taranto. Washington, DC: United States Navy Department. 1979. hdl:2027/uiug.30112105110164.
Roy Domenico (2002). "Apulia: Brindisi". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 23+. ISBN 0313307334.
John W. Barker (2004). "Brindisi". In Christopher Kleinhenz (ed.). Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 157–158. ISBN 0415939291.

in Italian[edit]

A. Della Monaca. Memoria historica dell’antichissima e fedelissima città di Brindisi (Lecce 1674)
A. De Leo. Dell’antichissima città di Brindisi e suo celebre porto (Naples, 1846)
"Brindisi". Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian). Vol. 4 (6th ed.). Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese. 1877. hdl:2027/uc1.c2649802.
F. Ascoli. La storia di Brindisi (Rimini 1886)
Henry Berger, ed. (1899), "Giornali Italiani (per ordine di localita): Brindisi", Annuario della stampa italiana (in Italian), Milan{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Touring Club Italiano. "Brindisi". Puglie. Guide Regionali Illustrate (in Italian). hdl:2027/uc1.c035947291. circa 1900?
Guerrieri (1901). Gli Ebrei a Brindisi e a Lecce. Turin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
"Brindisi", Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) (in Italian), 1930
R. Alaggio. Brindisi medievale. Natura, Santi e Sovrani in una città di frontiera (Naples, 2009)

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