Events from the year 1904 in Italy.

Kingdom of Italy

*Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946) *

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Giovanni Giolitti Giovanni Giolitti (; 27 October 1842 – 17 July 1928) was an Italian statesman. He was the Prime Minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. After Benito Mussolini, he is the second-longest serving Prime Minister in Italian history. A pr ...

(1903–1905) *

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– 33,237,000

Events

The Giolittian Era. During his second and third tenure as Prime Minister (1903–1905 and 1906–1909),

courts the left and labour unions with social legislation, including subsidies for low-income housing, preferential government contracts for worker cooperatives, and old age and disability pensions. Economic expansion was secured by monetary stability, moderate protectionism and government support of production. Foreign trade doubled between 1900 and 1910, wages rose, and the general

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went up. Nevertheless, the period was also marked by a sharp increase in the frequency and duration of industrial action, with major labour strikes.

February

* February 17 – The opera ''

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Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long li ...

, premieres at

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. It was withdrawn after a disastrous premiere and Puccini substantially rewrote it.

April

* April 24 – Official visit of French President Émile Loubet to Rome.

July

* July 4 – Piero Ginori Conti tests the first-ever

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generator at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy. It was a small generator that lit four light bulbs.

September

* Series of strikes, including a general strike in September. Prime Minister

refuses to intervene and this attitude prevents the movement to take revolutionary dimensions.

Pope Pius X Pope Pius X ( it, Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of C ...

gives tacit permission to Catholic candidates to stand in parliamentary to counter the red menace.Clark, ''Modern Italy: 1871 to the present''
p. 176
/ref> * September 27 – Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti visits the German Chancellor

Bernhard von Bülow Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow (german: Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin Fürst von Bülow ; 3 May 1849 – 28 October 1929) was a German statesman who served as the foreign minister for three years and then as the chancellor of t ...

to allay concerns in Berlin by the French-Italian rapprochement in relation with the

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November

* November 6 – First round of the Italian general election. * November 13 – Second round of the Italian general election. The "ministerial" left-wing bloc of the

Historical Left The Left group ( it, Sinistra), later called Historical Left ( it, Sinistra storica) by historians to distinguish it from the left-wing groups of the 20th century, was a liberal and reformist parliamentary group in Italy during the second half of ...

led by Giovanni Giolitti remains the largest in Parliament, winning 339 of the 508 seats. The papal ban on Catholics voting was relaxed for the first time, and three Catholics were elected.

Births

* February 3 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975) * April 18 –

Giuseppe Terragni Giuseppe Terragni (; 18 April 1904 – 19 July 1943) was an Italian architect who worked primarily under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and pioneered the Italian modern movement under the rubric of Rationalism. His most famous work is the C ...

, Italian Rationalist architect (d. 1943) * August 28 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980) * November 25 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)

Deaths

* Emilio Comba, Waldensian pastor and historian (b. 1839) * February 12 – Antonio Labriola, Italian Marxist theoretician (b. 1843)

References

* Clark, Martin (2008).
Modern Italy: 1871 to the present
', Harlow: Pearson Education, {{DEFAULTSORT:1904 in Italy

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Years of the 20th century in Italy