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11th
to 8th century BC...Southern Italy and Sicily settled by Greek
colonists
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753 BC...Rome is
founded
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540
BC...Pythagoras sets up school of Philosophy in Croton
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510 BC...Croton's army defeats the city of Sybaris ( sybarites;
pleasure seekers)
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6th to 7th century BC...Heyday of Magna Grecia. Temple of
Paestum and Siracusa
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326 BC...Naples
falls to the Romans
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282 BC...Pyrrhus
(pyrrhic victory; won the battle, lost the war) invades southern Italy
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275 BC...Pyrrhus
defeated at Benevento by Romans
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264 BC..First
Punic (Carthaginian) War with Rome
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216 BC...Canae,
in Apulia, is scene of defeat of Rome by Hannibal
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212
BC...Archimedes of Siracusa dies
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280 BC...Appian
Way from Brindisi to Rome finished
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146BC...Carthage
defeated by Rome
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73 BC...At Cumae,
Spartacus begins slave revolt
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65 BC...Horace
the poet is born in Venosa
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79 AD...Vesuvius
erupts and buries Pompei and Herculaneum
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324
AD...Christianity becomes the official religion of southern Italy
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393 AD...Rome
divided between West and the East (Constantinople)
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412 AD...Alaric,
king of the Goths dies at Cosenza after sacking Rome in 410 AD
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568 AD... The
South is divided between Lombard and Byzantine rulers
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916...Muslims defeated at Garigliano by
Christian forces
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965...Sicily is
dominated by Saracens
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1042...William, son of
Tancred becomes the Duke of Apulia
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1053...Norman
territories united under Robert Guiscard
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1071...Roger,
son of William becomes Count of Sicily at Palermo
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1085...Death of Robert Guiscard
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1130...Roger
II capture Amalfi and Naples and becomes King of Sicily
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1194...Henry
VI of Germany displaces Norman rule
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1220...Frederick II crowned in Rome
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1240...Completion of Castle Del Monte
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1250...Frederick II dies
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1266...Charles
of Anjou (France) becomes king Of Sicily and Naples
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1268...
Conradin is executed by Charles to prevent his rightful ascendency
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1282...The ' Sicilian Vespers' rids Sicily of
Charles I of France
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1282...House
of Aragon (Spain) takes over
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1349...Devastation of the Black Plague
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1349...The 'Rose of Auricarro' is discovered near Palo del
Colle.
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1442...Alfonso
of Aragon establishes Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
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1468...Turks
defeat Albanians who settle in Southern Italy
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1503...Southern
Italy becomes part of Spanish Empire
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1595... parish records
become official duty of the priests
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1647...Masaniello
begins revolt against Spanish Crown
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1669...Eruption
Of Mount Etna with much destruction
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1713...Austrians
rule southern Italy with Treaty of Utrecht
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1737...Construction
begins on Teatro San Carlo
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1748...Bourbon
King Charles III defeats Austians at Vietri
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1748...Herculaneum
and Pompei excavations begin
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1759..Fedinand
II becomes King
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1790..Foundation
of Museo Nazionale in Naples
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1799...Birth and fall of the Parthenopean republic in Naples.
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1806...Feudalism officially abolished in southern
Italy, but not in Sicily
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1806...Napoleon reoccupies the Kingdom of Naples.
Murat set up as ruler
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1816... new administration system for the Kingdom of
Naples based on the French model
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1818...Vincenzo Conte is born
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1820...Carbonari lead unsuccessful revolt against the Bourbon King Ferdinand
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1821...Laurizzia Milello is born
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1845...Vito Sblendorio is born
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1848...Rosa Conte is born
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1860...Abolishment of tariffs protecting industry in south
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1860...Maria Minerva Sblendorio is born
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1860...Garibaldi enters Naples
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1860...Plebescite in south
approves annexation of Two Sicilies into the Kingdom of Italy
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1861...Piedmont constitution imposed on the south
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1861
-1866...116,000 northern Italian troops
put down insurgent brigandage in the south
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1865...Tavoliere or 'Murge' in Apulia is open to cultivation and land sale
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1870...Rome falls and Italian unification becomes complete
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1871...General draft begun for all 18 year olds
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1876...The Left
wins the general Italian election and Agostino DePretis becomes prime minister.
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1881 to 1901...Number of southern Italian workers declines by one third
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1882 ...Right to vote
given to store owners and craftsmen ,only 8 percent of the population
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1884
to1887... Cholera epidemics take the lives of over 55,000 people in the south
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1887...Francesco Crispi becomes Prime Minister
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1887...Trade relations with France are severed
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1887...Giuseppe Saccente is born
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1888...Beginning of trade war with France
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1888...Legislation recognizes the right to emigrate
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1890...The plant disease Phylloxera destroys most of the grapevines in the south.
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1890...Drop in agricultural prices causes a trade war especially with French wine industry
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1894...Major land reforms proposed by Prime Minister Crispi to try to quell Sicilian unrest
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1894...Large earthquake
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1897...Maria Sblendorio Saccente is born
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1898...bread riots throughout Italy
lead to suppression of civil rights
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1900...Ferdinand Stavola is born
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1903...Mary Latella Stavola is born
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1903...Giovanni Giolitti becomes Prime Minister
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1904...The pope rescinds Pius' edict prohibiting Catholic participation in political activity
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1908...Earthquake and tidal wave causes massive destruction in Messina
and Calabria
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1908...Giuseppe Saccente emigrates to the USA
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1913...Giuseppe and Maria Saccente are married
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1915...Italy enters war after signing the Treaty of London
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1951 to
1970...4.5million emigrate from the
south, half to north Italy and half abroad.