Events in Italy in 2003:

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (; 9 December 1920 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian politician and banker who was the prime minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994 and the president of Italy from 1999 to 2006. Biography Education Ciampi was born i ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ...

Events

* January 31: Miss Universo Italia 2003 * February 12: The newspaper

Europa Europa may refer to: Places * Europe * Europa (Roman province), a province within the Diocese of Thrace * Europa (Seville Metro), Seville, Spain; a station on the Seville Metro * Europa City, Paris, France; a planned development * Europa Cliff ...

is founded. * February 17: Abu Omar is abducted by the

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian intelligence agency, foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gat ...

and

SISMI Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (abbreviated SISMI, ''Military Intelligence and Security Service'') was the military intelligence agency of Italy from 1977–2007. With the reform of the Italian Intelligence Services app ...

. * June 17:

Wind Jet Wind Jet S.p.A. was an Italian low-cost airline based in Catania, Italy. It was founded in 2003, following the disbandment of Air Sicilia by current CEO Antonino Pulvirenti, also owner of football team Calcio Catania. On 11 August 2012 the ai ...

starts operating. * July 31:

Sky Italia Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian satellite television platform owned by the American media conglomerate Comcast. Sky Italia also broadcasts three national free-to-air television channels: TV8, Cielo and Sky TG24. As of 2018, following an agree ...

is founded by

Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch ( ; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including ...

. * September 28:

2003 Italy blackout The 2003 Italy blackout was a serious power outage that affected all of the Italian Peninsula for 12 hours and part of Switzerland near Geneva for 3 hours on 28 September 2003. It was the largest blackout in the series of blackouts in 2003, invo ...

Elections

* Italian regional elections, 2003 * Italian referendum, 2003 * Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, 2003 * Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections, 2003 *

Valdostan regional election, 2003 The Valdostan regional election of 2003 took place on 8 June 2003. The election was characterized by a strong showing of the centrist Valdostan Union The Valdostan Union (french: Union valdôtaine, UV), also Valdostian Union or Valdotanian Uni ...

Sport

* Serie A 2002–03 *

Serie B 2002–03 Series may refer to: People with the name * Caroline Series (born 1951), English mathematician, daughter of George Series * George Series (1920–1995), English physicist Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Series, the ordered sets used in ...

* 2003 Coppa Italia Final *

2002 Supercoppa Italiana The 2002 Supercoppa Italiana was a match contested by Juventus, the 2001–02 Serie A winner, and Parma, the 2001–02 Coppa Italia winner. It was the fifth appearance for Juventus (2 victories in 1995 and 1997) and the fourth for Parma (victory ...

2003 UEFA Champions League Final The 2003 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place at Old Trafford in Manchester, England on 28 May 2003 to decide the winner of the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League. The match was contested by two Italian teams: Juventus a ...

2003 Italian Grand Prix The 2003 Italian Grand Prix (formally the Gran Premio Vodafone d'Italia 2003) was a Formula One motor race held on 14 September 2003 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy. It was the fourteenth race of the 2003 Formula One season and ...

2003 San Marino Grand Prix The 2003 San Marino Grand Prix (formally the Gran Premio Foster's di San Marino 2003) was a Formula One motor race held on 20 April 2003 at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, with the race taking place on Easter Sun ...

2003 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix The 2003 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 6–8 June 2003 at the Mugello Circuit. MotoGP classification 250 cc classification 125 cc classification Champion ...

2003 Italy rugby union tour The 2003 Italy rugby union tour of New Zealand was a series of matches played in June 2003 in New Zealand by the Italian team to prepare the 2003 Rugby World Cup. No Test match was played Scores and results list Italy's points tally first.'' ...

2003 Women's Hockey Champions Challenge The 2003 Women's Hockey Champions Challenge is the second tournament of the field hockey championship for women. It was held in Catania, on the island of Sicily in Italy from July 5–13, 2003. Squads Head Coach: Peter Lemmen Head Coach ...

* 2003 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships *

2003 European Curling Championships The 2003 European Curling Championships were held in Courmayeur, Italy December 5–13. Men's A tournament Final round robin standings Playoffs =Bronze-medal game= ''December 13th, 14:00'' =Gold-medal game= ''December 13th, 14:00'' Medal ...

FIVB World Grand Prix 2003 The FIVB World Grand Prix 2003 was the eleventh edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament, which is the female equivalent of the Men's Volleyball World League. The 2003 edition was played by twelve countries from July 21 to August 3, 20 ...

2003 Giro d'Italia The 2003 Giro d'Italia was the 86th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in Lecce with a mass-start stage. The race came to a close with a individual time trial that began and ended in the Italian city ...

2003 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships The 2003 IIHF Women's World Championships was set to be held in Beijing, China, from April 4–9, 2003. However, it was cancelled due to the SARS crisis. Only the top division event was cancelled, as the lower divisions still had their tournament ...

* 2003 Milan–San Remo *

2003 World Rowing Championships The 2003 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 25 August to 1 September 2003 on the lake Idroscalo at Milan, Italy. The international rowing season usually ends with the World Championship regatta. Apart f ...

2003 ISSF World Cup For the 2003 ISSF World Cup in the seventeen Olympic shooting events, the World Cup Final was held in October 2003 in Milan, Italy for the rifle, pistol and running target events, and in Rome, Italy for the shotgun events. Rifle, pistol and runn ...

* 2003 Winter Universiade *

2003 World Interuniversity Games The 2003 World Interuniversity Games were the fifth edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS), and were held in Rome, Italy. External links Homepage IFIUS World Interuniversity Games World Interuniversity Games The World Interuniversity Games is a ...

Film

60th Venice International Film Festival The 60th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 6 September 2003. The festival opened with Woody Allen's Out of Competition film ''Anything Else''. Juries The following people comprised the 2003 jury for the featur ...

Music

List of number-one hits of 2003 (Italy) This is a list of the number-one hits of 2003 on Federation of the Italian Music Industry, FIMI's Italian Singles and Albums Charts. See also *2003 in music *List of number-one hits in Italy External linksFIMI archives2003 in Italian television

Deaths

* 4 March -

Fedora Barbieri Fedora Barbieri (4 June 1920 – 4 March 2003) was an Italian mezzo-soprano and actor. Barbieri was born in Trieste. She performed regularly in Florence for fifty years, and performed internationally through the years. She died, aged 82, in Flor ...

, operatic mezzo-soprano (born

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...

) * 7 July – Mario Pedini, politician (born

1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...

) * 28 October–

Sally Baldwin Sally Baldwin (4 November 1940 – 28 October 2003) was a University of York social sciences professor. Early life and education Sally was born Sarah Marie Kilday in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland. At the University of Glasgow she stud ...

, social sciences professor (born

1940 in Scotland Events from the year 1940 in Scotland. Incumbents * Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Colville until 10 May; vacant until 14 May; then Ernest Brown Law officers * Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper ...

)

References

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