Timeline Of Brindisi

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

Prior to 15th century

* 266 BCE – Romans in power.
* 244 BCE – Brundisium becomes a Roman colony.
* 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.
* 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.
* 38 BCE – "Foedus brundissinum, a brief reconciliation between Mark Antony and Octavian" takes place in Brundisium.
* 19 BCE – 21 September: Poet Virgil dies in Brundisium.
* 109 CE – Via Traiana ( Beneventum-Brundisium road) built.
* 5th–6th C. CE – Roman Catholic diocese of Brindisi established.
* 7th C. CE – Lombards in power.
* 836 – Brindisi sacked by Saracens.
* 867 – Brindisi taken by forces of Louis II of Italy.
* 1071 – Normans in power.
* 1080 – (church) built.
* 1089 – dedicated.
* 1192 – (fountain) installed.
* 1225 – Wedding of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella II of Jerusalem.
* 1227 – (castle) built.
* 1230 – (church) built.
* 1310 – (church) built.
* 1322 – (church) built. 21 January 2017
* 1348 – Plague.
* 1352 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I of Hungary.
* 1383 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I, Duke of Anjou.
* 1385 – Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini in power.

15th–19th centuries

* 1456 – 1456 Central Italy earthquakes. (includes chronology)
* 1496 – Venetians in power.
* 1509 – Venetian rule ends.
* 1528 – One of Brindisi's 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.
** (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.
** Brindisi Marittima railway station opened (closed in 2006).
* 1871 – Population: 13,755.
* 1881 – Population: 16,618.^{( it)}
* 1886 – Taranto–Brindisi railway begins operating.
* 1892 – ''Indipendente'' newspaper begins publication.
* 1898 – Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company deletes Brindisi from its route.

20th century

* 1901 – Population: 25,317.
* 1905 – Harbour railway station built.
* 1911 – Population: 25,692.^{( it)}
* 1912 – F.B. Brindisi 1912 (football club) formed.
* 1916 – (seaplane base) built in the Port of Brindisi.
* 1923 – Brindisi – Salento Airport built.
* 1927 – Administrative Province of Brindisi formed.
* 1931 – (war monument) erected.
* 1933 – erected.
* 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.
* 1944 – February: Administrative seat of national government relocated from Brindisi to Salerno.
* 1961 – Population: 70,657.^{( it)}
* 1963 – Archivio di Stato di Brindisi (state archives) established.
* 1969 – (transit entity) formed.
* 1979 – ' newspaper begins publication.
* 1991 – Population: 95,383.^{( it)}

21st century

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

See also

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* List of mayors of Brindisi
* List of bishops of Brindisi
* region

Other cities in the macroregion of South Italy:^{( it)}
* Timeline of Bari, Apulia region
* Timeline of L'Aquila, Abruzzo region
* Timeline of Naples, Campania region
* Timeline of Reggio Calabria
* Timeline of Salerno, Campania
* Timeline of Taranto, Apulia

References

''This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.''

Bibliography

in English

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in Italian

* 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)
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* F. Ascoli. La storia di Brindisi (Rimini 1886)
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* R. Alaggio. Brindisi medievale. Natura, Santi e Sovrani in una città di frontiera (Naples, 2009)

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