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Ancient Rome Timeline |
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485 |
Italy was invaded by Attila
the Hun. Pope Leo I dissuaded Attila from sacking
Rome |
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568 |
The Lombards, a Germanic
tribe, invade Italy which is divided into three
regions ruled by the Lombards, the Eastern Roman
Empire and the Papal States
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553 |
The old Roman Empire was
reunited by Justinian, the Byzantine emperor |
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572 |
The Byzantine rule collapses
after an attack by the Lombards |
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756 |
Pepin the Short, a Frankish
King conquers the Lombards for the popes |
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756 |
The Papal States were
established in central Italy |
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774 |
The Lombards defeated by
Charlemagne |
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800 |
Charlemagne crowned Roman
emperor |
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962 |
Otto the Great, the king of
Germany, was crowned emperor establishing the Holy
Roman Empire |
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1000s - 1400's Independent
city-states are established |
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1519 |
Charles I of Spain became
Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire |
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1700s Spanish rule passed to
Austrian rule |
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1789 |
The French Revolution |
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1804 |
Napoleon declared himself the
emperor of Italy |
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1814 |
Napoleon abdicated his throne
and Italy was broken up into small kingdoms |
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1820s-1850s Small revolutions
in the kingdoms - Venice, Rome and Tuscany declare
themselves Republics
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1849 |
Austria regains control of
most of Italy |
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1860 |
Northern Italy was joined to
the Kingdom of Sardinia |
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1861 |
The Kingdom of Italy was
formed under the leadership of Giuseppe Garibaldi
Victor Emmanuel II crowned king
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1911 |
Italy defeats the Ottoman
Empire |
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1914 |
World War I |
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1915 |
Italy joins the war on the
side of the Allies |
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1918 |
The Allies win WW1 |
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1922 |
28 October: The Fascists named
Benito Mussolini the Prime Minister of Italy |
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1925 |
Benito Mussolini becomes the
dictator of Italy |
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1936 |
Mussolini and Hitler sign an
agreement known as the Roman-Berlin Axis |
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1939 |
Italy conquers Albania and
Mussolini sides with Hitler and Fascist Germany |
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1943 |
8 September: Italy surrenders
to the Allies in WW II
13 October: Italy declares war on Germany
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1945 |
Mussolini was shot
August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki marking the end of WW11
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1946 |
10 June: Italy abolishes the
monarchy and establishes a republic |
