Timeline of Mantua

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mantua in the Lombardy region of Italy.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 17th century

• 3rd C. BCE - Romans in power.[1]
• 601 CE - Forces of Lombard Agilulf take Mantua.[2]
• 804 CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Mantua established.[3]
• 977 - Canossa in power.[1]
• 1007 - Boniface III in power.
• 1090 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor in power.[2]
• 1113 - Forces of Matilda of Tuscany take Mantua.[2]
• 1115 - Mantua becomes a "quasi-independent commune."[1]
• 1150 - Mantua currency [it] begins circulating.^[citation needed]
• 1167 - Mantua joins the Lombard League.[4]}
• 1236 - Forces of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor attempt to take Mantua.[2]
• 1272 - Bonacolsi in power (until 1328).[1]
• 1281 - Tower built.
• 1328
  • Ludovico I Gonzaga in power.[2]
  • Ducal Palace, Mantua built.[2]
• 1400 - Public clock installed (approximate date).[5]
• 1403 - Mantua Cathedral rebuilt.[6]
• 1406 - Castle of St. George (Mantua) built.[2]
• 1423 - "Latin grammar school" established by Vittorino da Feltre.[7]
• 1444 - Ludovico II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua in power.[8]
• 1460 - Artist Andrea Mantegna moves to Mantua.[4]
• 1472
  • Printing press in operation.[9][10]
  • Rebuilding of the Basilica of Sant'Andrea begins.[4][2]
• 1480 - Poliziano's Fabula di Orfeo [it] premieres in Mantua.[7]
• 1484 - Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua in power.[8]
• 1490 - Isabella d'Este becomes wife of Francesco II.[8]
• 1530 - Duchy of Mantua established.[1]
• 1535 - Palazzo del Te built near Mantua.[2]
• 1584 - Jesuit college established.[11]^(it)

17th-19th centuries

• 1607 - Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo premieres in Mantua.[12]
• 1625 - Jesuit Pacifico Ginnasio Mantovano (university) established.[11]
• 1630
  • City sacked by Austrian forces during the War of the Mantuan Succession.[2]
  • Plague.[6]
• 1631 - War of the Mantuan Succession ends; Mantuan Gonzaga-Nevers rulers become "vassals of Vienna" per Treaty of Cherasco.[1]
• 1664 - Gazzetta di Mantova newspaper begins publication.[13]
• 1686 - Accademia Virgiliana [it] founded.[14]
• 1708
  • Death of Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat the last ruler of the Duchy of Mantua.[2]
  • Austrians in power.[1]
• 1737 - Mantua becomes part of Lombardy.[1]
• 1767 - Teatro Bibiena built.[6]
• 1768 - "Reale Accademia di Scienze e Belle Lettere" (now, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti) founded.[15]
• 1779 - "Museum of antiquities" established.[2]
• 1780 - Biblioteca Teresiana (library) established.[2][16]
• 1796 - 4 June: Siege of Mantua (1796–97) by French forces begins.[4][2]
• 1797
  • 2 February: Siege of Mantua ends; French win.[1][2]
  • City becomes seat of the "Mincio department in Napoleon's puppet Cisalpine Republic."[1]
• 1799 - Siege of Mantua (1799) by Austrian forces; Austrians win.[2]
• 1801 - French in power again per Treaty of Lunéville.[2]
• 1809 - Economic unrest.[4]
• 1814 - Austrians in power again.[2]
• 1822 - Teatro Sociale (Mantua) [it] built.[17]
• 1853 - Political dissidents executed at nearby Belfiore during the Italian unification movement.[4]
• 1866 - Mantua becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.[4]
• 1868 - Archivio di Stato di Mantova [it] (state archives) established.[18]
• 1871 - Banca Agricola Mantovana (bank) in business.
• 1873 - Mantova railway station opens.
• 1884 - Economic unrest; military crackdown.[4]
• 1886 - Mantoua-Asola Tram [it] begins operating.
• 1887 - La Provincia di Mantova [it] newspaper begins publication.[19]
• 1897 - Population: 29,743.[20]

20th century

• 1905 - Walls of Mantua [it] demolished.[6]
• 1906 - Population: 31,783.[2]
• 1908 - Mantua tram [it] begins operating.[21]
• 1911
  • Mantova F.C. (football club) formed.
  • Population: 32,657.[22]
• 1913 - Chamber of Commerce built.[6]
• 1930 - Virgil monument erected.[6]
• 1934 - Ferrovia Mantova-Peschiera [it] (railway) begins operating.
• 1949
  • Azienda Pubblici Autoservizi Mantova [it] (bus) begins operating.[21]
  • Stadio Danilo Martelli (stadium) opens.
• 1971 - Population: 65,703.^[citation needed]
• 1973 - Gianni Usvardi becomes mayor.

21st century

• 2005 - PalaBam [it] arena opens.
• 2006 - Mincio Cycleway constructed between Peschiera del Garda and Mantua.
• 2012 - May: Earthquake.
• 2013 - Population: 47,223.[23]
• 2015 - Mattia Palazzi becomes mayor.

See also

• History of Mantua [it] (Italian version includes timeline)
• List of rulers of Mantua, 984-1708
• List of podestàs of Mantua [it], 1184-1400
• List of dukes of Mantua, 1530–1708
• List of mayors of Mantua
• History of Lombardy (it)

Timelines of other cities in the macroregion of Northwest Italy:^(it)

• Liguria region: Timeline of Genoa
• Lombardy region: Timeline of Bergamo; Brescia; Cremona; Milan; Pavia
• Piedmont region: Timeline of Novara; Turin

References

1. Domenico 2002.
2. Britannica 1910.
3. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
4. Lamontagne 1995.
5. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum [in German] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
6. "Mantua". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 7 December 2016
7. Michael Wyatt, ed. (2014). "Timeline". Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. p. xxi+. ISBN 978-1-139-99167-4.
8. "Venice and Northern Italy, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
9. Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel (ed.). The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
10. Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy: Mantova". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450631.
11. Paul F. Grendler (2009). The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9783-2.
12. Radio 3. "Opera Timeline". BBC. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
13. "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
14. James E. McClellan (1985). "Official Scientific Societies: 1600-1793". Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia University Press. p. 261+. ISBN 978-0-231-05996-1.
15. Maylender, Michele (1930). Storia delle accademie d'Italia. Vol. 5. Bologna: L. Cappelli. pp. 469–477.
16. "Storia della Biblioteca". Biblioteca Teresiana (in Italian). Comune di Manova. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
17. Restori 1919.
18. "Archivio di Stato di Mantova". Guida generale degli Archivi di Stato italiani (in Italian). Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
19. Castagnoli 2002.
20. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590550 – via HathiTrust.
21. "Da 60 anni trasportati dall'Apam", Gazzetta di Mantova (in Italian), 14 July 2013
22. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368374.
23. "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 7 December 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

• Virgil. "Part 10". Aeneid. (description of Mantua)

in English

• William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Mantua". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cur.
• "Mantua", Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy (16th ed.), London: John Murray, 1897, OCLC 2231483
• "Mantua". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. hdl:2027/njp.32101065312926.
• Ismar Elbogen (1904), "Mantua", Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 8, New York
• "Mantua" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 607–608.
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Mantua", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t41r6xh8t
• Edward Hutton (1912), "Mantua", Cities of Lombardy, New York: Macmillan Co.
• "Mantua", Northern Italy (14th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913 + 1870 ed.
• Egerton R. Williams Jr. (1914), "Mantova (etc.)", Lombard Towns of Italy, London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Monique Lamontagne (1995). "Mantua". In Trudy Ring; Robert M. Salkin (eds.). Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Vol. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 416–419. ISBN 1884964052.
• Roy Domenico (2002). "Lombardy: Mantua". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 197+. ISBN 0313307334.
• Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. (2004). "Mantua". Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0415939291.
• David S. Chambers (2010). "The Gonzaga Signoria, communal institutions, and the 'honour of the city': mixed ideas in quattrocento Mantua". In John E. Law; Bernadette Paton (eds.). Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6508-3.
• Charles M. Rosenberg, ed. (2010). Court Cities of Northern Italy: Milan, Parma, Piacenza, Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna, Urbino, Pesaro, and Rimini. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79248-6.

in Italian

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

• Leopoldo Cammillo Volta. Compendio cronologico-critico della storia di Mantova dalla sua fondazione sino ai nostri tempi (in Italian). dalla tipografia di Francesco Agazzi. 1807-1837 (5 volumes)
• Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani [in Italian] (1865). Storia di Mantova dalla sua origine fino all' anno 1860 (in Italian). E. Caranenti.
• Giovanni Battista Intra (1882). Dell' archivio storico mantovano (in Italian). Milan: L. Bortolotti.
• "Mantova". Piemonte, Lombardia, Canton Ticino. Guida d'Italia (in Italian). Milan: Touring Club Italiano. 1916. p. 453+. hdl:2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t1rf92c9w.
• Vasco Restori (1919). Mantova; notizie storico-artistiche sotto forma di guida (in Italian). Società tipografica editrice mantovana.
• G. Coniglio; L. Mazzoldi (eds.). Mantova: La storia (in Italian). 1958–1963 (3 volumes)
• Carlo A. Ferandini; E.O. Zavatti (1973), Mantova, l'aviazione mantovana e il Migliaretto nei secoli, Tradizioni aeronautiche delle citta italiane (Aeronautical Traditions of Italian Towns) (in Italian), Rome: Stato maggiore dell'Aeronautica Militare, OCLC 19127680
• Luigi Cavazzoli. La gente e la guerra. La vita quotidiana del fronte interno: Mantova, 1940-1945 (Milan: Angeli, 1989).
• Clara Castagnoli; Giancarlo Ciaramelli, eds. (2002). Un secolo di stampa periodica mantovana: 1797-1897 (in Italian). Milan: FrancoAngeli. ISBN 978-88-464-3756-3.
• Giada Bologni and Giorgio Casamatti. Bombe su Mantova: La città e la provincia durante i bombardamenti (1943-1945) (Parma: MUP, 2009)

External links

• "Archivio Comunale" (in Italian). Comune di Mantova. (city archives)
• Biblioteca Teresiana. "Biblioteca Digitale: Storia di Mantova" (in Italian). Comune di Mantova.
• Items related to Mantua, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Mantua, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)