Timeline of Livorno

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Livorno in the Tuscany region of Italy.

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Prior to 20th century

• 1077 - Matilda of Tuscany tower built.[1]
• 1284 - Naval Battle of Meloria (1284) fought near Livorno with the win of Genoa.
• 1303 - Livorno Lighthouse (Fanale dei Pisani) built.[1]
• 1399 - Livorno sold by Pisa to the Visconti.[2]
• 1407 - Livorno becomes part of the Republic of Genoa.[3]
• 1421 - Livorno becomes part of the Republic of Florence.[3]
• 1423 - Torre del Marzocco [it] (tower) built.[3]
• 1551 - Population: 749.[3]
• 1571 - Port of Livorno construction begins.[2]
• 1575 - Pisa-Livorno Navicelli channel created.
• 1603 - Synagogue of Livorno built.
• 1606
  • Livorno attains city status.[3]
  • Cathedral of Saint Francis of Assisi built.[2]
• 1626 - Monument of the Four Moors erected in the Piazza Micheli.[4]
• 1630 - Venezia Nuova area development begins.[4]
• 1645 - Old English Cemetery, Livorno established (until 1838).
• 1653 - 4 March: Naval battle fought near city during the First Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1691 - Port declared Free port.[3]
• 1718 - Status as free port confirmed in the War of the Quadruple Alliance.[3]
• 1742 - Earthquake.[5]^(it)
• 1796 - French forces enter city.[6]
• 1806 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Livorno established.[7]
• 1813 - Attempted siege of Livorno by British and Italian forces.[6]
• 1816 - Biblioteca Labronica (library) founded.[8]
• 1825
  • Società medica di Livorno [it] founded.[9]
  • "British 'factory'" closes.[3]
• 1840 - New Walls of Livorno [it] built.[4]
• 1842 - Cisternone (Livorno) [it] built.[4]
• 1847 - Teatro Carlo Goldoni (Livorno) [it] (theatre) opens.
• 1848 - Cisternino di città built.
• 1849 - May: Siege of Livorno [it] by Austrian forces during the First Italian War of Independence.[6]
• 1856 - Santa Maria del Soccorso, Livorno opened.
• 1857 - June: Fire.[6]
• 1867 - Livorno–Rome railway opened.[3]
• 1868 - Livorno's free port status ends.[2][3]
• 1871 - Population: 97,096.[10]
• 1872 - Chamber of Commerce headquartered in the Palazzo della Dogana [it].
• 1881 - Italian Naval Academy established.
• 1899 - City Archive opens on Via Borra [it].[11]

20th century

• 1901 - Population: 78,308.[3]
• 1911 - Population: 105,315.[12]
• 1915 - A.S. Livorno Calcio (football club) formed.
• 1920 - Scuola Labronica artists' group formed.[4]
• 1921 - January: 1st Congress of the Communist Party of Italy [it] held in Livorno.
• 1935
  • Ferrovia Pisa-Tirrenia-Livorno [it] (railway) begins operating.
  • Stadio Edda Ciano Mussolini (stadium) opens.
• 1940 - Bombing of Livorno (1940-1945) [it] in World War II begins.[13]
• 1942 - Palazzo del Governo (Livorno) [it] built.
• 1943 - City bombed by allied forces in World War II; cathedral demolished.[2]
• 1944
  • Bombing by allied forces.[2]
  • Furio Diaz [it] becomes mayor.[13]
• 1945 - Bombing of Livorno ends.
• 1953 - Cathedral reconstructed.
• 1954 - Nicola Badaloni [it] becomes mayor.
• 1962 - New Synagogue of Livorno built.[13]
• 1978 - Il Tirreno newspaper in publication.[14]
• 1985 - May: Tuscan communal election, 1985 [it] held.
• 1992 - Gianfranco Lamberti [it] becomes mayor.
• 1994 - Museo civico Giovanni Fattori [it] (museum) moves into the Villa Mimbelli [it].

21st century

• 2004 - Alessandro Cosimi becomes mayor.
• 2013 - Population: 156,998.[15]
• 2014 - Filippo Nogarin becomes mayor.
• 2015 - Population: 159,431[16]
• 2015 - 31 May: Tuscan regional election, 2015 held.
• 2019 - Luca Salvetti becomes mayor.

See also

• History of Livorno [it] and Timeline (in Italian)
• List of mayors of Livorno
• History of Tuscany

Other cities in the macroregion of Central Italy:^(it)

• Timeline of Ancona, Marche region
• Timeline of Arezzo, Tuscany region
• Timeline of Florence, Tuscany
• Timeline of Lucca, Tuscany
• Timeline of Perugia, Umbria region
• Timeline of Pisa, Tuscany
• Timeline of Pistoia, Tuscany
• Timeline of Prato, Tuscany
• Timeline of Rome, Lazio region
• Timeline of Siena, Tuscany

References

1. "Chronology of Livorno". Leghorn Merchant Networks. 11 November 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
2. Domenico 2002.
3. Britannica 1910.
4. Cornelia Danielson. "Livorno". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 15 December 2016
5. Mario Baratta [in Italian] (1901). I terremoti d'Italia [Earthquakes in Italy] (in Italian). Turin: Fratelli Bocca. (includes chronology)
6. Haydn 1910.
7. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
8. "(Comune: Livorno)". Anagrafe delle biblioteche italiane [Registry of Italian Libraries)] (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
9. Piombanti 1903.
10. Hunter, Brian; Paxton, John; Steinberg, S. H.; Epstein, Mortimer; Renwick, Isaac Parker Anderson; Keltie, John Scott; Martin, Frederick (1873). "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590360.
11. Ezio Papa. "Storia dell'Archivio" (in Italian). Comune di Livorno. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
12. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368374.
13. Noce 2004.
14. "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
15. "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
16. Istat

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• John Ramsay McCulloch (1877), "Leghorn", A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, Hugh G. Reid, ed., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., hdl:2027/njp.32101079877088
• Ismar Elbogen (1904), "Leghorn", Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 7, New York, hdl:2027/mdp.49015002282250
• Ashby, Thomas (1910). "Leghorn" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). pp. 377–378.
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Leghorn", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t41r6xh8t
• Roy Domenico (2002). "Tuscany: Livorno". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 329+. ISBN 0313307334.

in Italian

Further information (in Italian): Bibliography of the history of Livorno^[it]

• Giuseppe Vivoli (1842), Annali di Livorno (in Italian) 1842-
• P. Volpi, Guida del Forestiere per la città e contorni di Livorno, 1846.
• Giuseppe Piombanti (1903). Guida storica ed artistica della città e dei dintorni di Livorno (in Italian). Bologna: Forni.
• P. Vigo, Livorno. Aspetti storici-artistici, Bergamo 1915.
• "Livorno", Enciclopedia Italiana, 1934
• G. Nudi. Storia urbanistica di Livorno: Dalle origini al secolo XVI (Venice, 1959)
• L. Bortolotti. Livorno dal 1748 al 1958: Profilo storico-urbanistico (Florence, 1970)
• A. Melosi, Resistenza, dopoguerra e ricostruzione a Livorno. 1944/48, S. Giovanni in Persiceto (Bo) 1984.
• D. Matteoni (1985), Livorno, Le città nella storia d'Italia (in Italian)
• Tiziana Noce (2004). Nella città degli uomini: donne e pratica della politica a Livorno fra guerra e ricostruzione (in Italian). Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore. ISBN 978-88-498-0843-8.
• A. Santini, 400 anni di Livorno, Pisa 2006.
• A. Prosperi (a cura di), Livorno 1606–1806. Luogo di incontro tra popoli e culture, Torino, Allemandi, 2009.

External links

• Archivio di Stato di Livorno (state archives)
• Items related to Livorno, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Livorno, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)