The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
Prior to 17th century
Turin Cathedral was built in 1498
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- 218 BC - Town besieged by forces led by Hannibal.[1]
- 27 BC - Romans establish Castra Taurinorum.
- 69 AD - Fire caused by negligence of the 14th legion.[1]
- 312 - Battle of Turin.
- 5th century - Roman Catholic diocese of Turin established.[2]
- 773 - Franks of Charlemagne in power.
- 10th century - Monastery of St. Andrew established.
- 940s - Contea di Torino (countship) founded.
- 1354 - Church of San Domenico (Turin) founded.[3]
- 1404 - Palatine Towers rebuilt.
- 1405 - University of Turin founded.[4]
- 1453 - City sacked.
- 1474 - Printing press in operation.[5]
- 1498 - Turin Cathedral built.[1]
- 1515 - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Turin established.[1]
- 1536 - French in power.[1]
- 1563 - City becomes capital of the Duchy of Savoy.
- 1565 - Citadel built.[6]
- 1568 - Collegio dei Nobili founded.
- 1583 - Capuchin monastery founded on Monte dei Cappuccini.[3]
17th century
The Royal Palace of Turin was built in 1658
- 1610 - Church of Corpus Domini and Church of Santo Spirito, Turin built.[3]
- 1630 - Plague.[1]
- 1638 - Piazza San Carlo laid out.[3]
- 1640 - Siege of Turin; French in power.[1]
- 1652 - Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti founded.[3]
- 1656 - Monte dei Cappuccini church built.
- 1658 - Royal Palace built.[3]
- 1659 - Artillery Arsenal founded.[3]
- 1660 - Castello del Valentino built.
- 1669 - Palazzo de Citta (town hall) built.[3]
- 1679 - Jesuit college built.[3]
- 1680 - Palazzo Carignano built.[3]
- 1687 - Church of San Lorenzo built.[3]
- 1694 - Sindone Chapel built.
18th century
- 1706 - City besieged by French forces.
- 1718 - Palazzo Madama expanded.[3]
- 1720
- City becomes capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia.[3]
- University Library founded.[3]
- 1730 - Church of San Filippo built.
- 1731 - Orto Botanico dell'Università di Torino (garden) laid out.
- 1736 - Chiesa della Madonna del Carmine (Turin) built.[3]
- 1740 - Royal Theatre opens.
- 1753 - Teatro Carignano opens.
- 1757 - Academy of sciences founded.[1][7]
- 1760 - Reycends publisher in business (approximate date).[8][9]
- 1763 - Caffè Al Bicerin in business.[10]
- 1772 - Church of San Filippo Neri built.[1]
- 1780 - Caffè Fiorio in business.
- 1784 - Patriottica Nobile Societa del Casino formed.[11]
- 1785 - Società Agraria di Torino founded.
- 1798 - French in power.[1]
19th century
Turin in the late 19th century, with the Mole Antonelliana under construction
- 1801 - Fortifications demolished.[3]
- 1802 - City becomes part of French Empire.
- 1814 - City becomes capital of Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia.
- 1815 - Accademia Filarmonica founded.[12]
- 1823 - Population: 88,000.[4]
- 1824 - Museo Egizio (Egyptian museum) founded.
- 1831 - Gran Madre di Dio, Turin (church) built.[3]
- 1832 - Pinacoteca opens in Palazzo Madama.[3][13]
- 1837 - Royal Library of Turin and Royal Armoury established.[14]
- 1841 - Società del Whist founded.
- 1843 - National Historical Museum of Artillery founded.[15]
- 1848
- Gazzetta del Popolo begins publication.
- Luigi de Margherita becomes mayor.
- 1857 - Fortifications demolished.[3]
- 1861
- City becomes capital of newly united Kingdom of Italy.
- Population: 173,305.
- 1862 - Regio Museo Industriale Italiano (industrial museum) established.[16]
- 1863 - Club Alpino Italiano founded.
- 1864 - Torino Porta Nuova railway station opens.
- 1865 - Capital of Kingdom of Italy relocates from Turin to Florence.[1]
- 1867 - Gazzetta Piemontese newspaper begins publication.
- 1868 - Via Po and Torino Porta Susa railway station built.
- 1869
- 22 February: Biblioteca Civica Centrale (Turin) (library) opens.
- Le Nuove prison built.
- 1871
- Fréjus Rail Tunnel opens.
- Population: 207,770.[17]
- 1878 - Museum of the Risorgimento established.
- 1879 - Mont Cenis Tunnel Monument erected in Piazza Statuto.[3]
- 1889 - Mole Antonelliana built.
- 1892 - Unione escursionisti Torino (hiking club) formed.[18]
- 1896 - 1 February: Premiere of Puccini's opera La Bohème.[19]
- 1897
- Sport Club Juventus formed.[20]
- Population: 351,855.[21]
- 1899 - F.I.A.T. automotive manufactory in business.
20th century
The Stadio Olimpico di Torino was a venue for the 1934 FIFA World Cup
- 1902 - International Exposition of Modern Decorative Arts held.
- 1906
- Lancia & C. automotive manufactory in business.
- Royal Turin Polytechnic and Torino Football Club founded.
- Population: 361,720.[1]
- 1907 - Derby della Mole athletic contest begins.
- 1908 - September, first solo aeroplane flight by a woman, Thérèse Peltier, from the Military Square, Turin
- 1911
- Turin International world's fair held.
- Population: 415,667.
- 1919 - Honorary Consulate of Poland opened (see Italy–Poland relations).[22]
- 1922 - Conflict between Fascist and labour supporters.
- 1933
- Giulio Einaudi editore (publisher) in business.
- Stadio Benito Mussolini opens.
- 1934 - City Museum of Ancient Art housed in the Palazzo Madama.
- 1937 - Via Roma (Turin) constructed.
- 1940 - Honorary Consulate of Poland closed.[22]
- 1944 - AGSSt 65 assembly center for Allied POWs established by the Germans (later relocated).[23]
- 1945
- Allies take city.
- Tuttosport begins publication.
- 1949
- May 4: Superga air disaster.[20]
- Torino Esposizioni built.
- 1951 - Population: 719,300.
- 1953 - Turin Airport built.
- 1958 - Politecnico di Torino building constructed.
- 1960 - Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile opens.
- 1961 - Population: 1,025,822.
- 1971 - Population: 1,167,968.
- 1982 - Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani begins.
- 1983 - February 13: Cinema Statuto fire.
- 1988 - Salone del Libro (book fair) begins.
- 1990 - Stadio delle Alpi opens.
- 1992 - Filarmonica di Torino (orchestra) formed.
21st century
- 2001 - Sergio Chiamparino becomes mayor.
- 2002 - Lumiq Studios established.
- 2003 - Gruppo Torinese Trasporti founded.
- 2004
- Terra Madre conference begins.
- ESCP Europe campus established.
- 2006
- Turin Metro begins operating.
- 2006 Winter Olympics held.
- Archaeological Park opens.
- City named World Book Capital by UNESCO.
- 2007 - Eataly in business.[24]
- 2008 - National Museum of Cinema and Museum of Oriental Art established.
- 2010 - ToBike municipal bike-sharing program begins.
- 2011
- Juventus Stadium opens.
- Piero Fassino becomes mayor.
- 2012 - Population: 906,089.
- 2016 - June: Turin municipal election, 2016 held.
See also
- List of mayors of Turin
- History of Turin
- Archivio di Stato di Torino (state archives)
Timelines of other cities in the macroregion of Northwest Italy:(it)
- Liguria region: Timeline of Genoa
- Lombardy region: Timeline of Bergamo; Brescia; Cremona; Mantua; Milan; Pavia
- Piedmont region: Timeline of Novara
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Baedeker 1913.
- 1 2 Morse 1823.
- ↑ Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy: Torino". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450631 – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ Pollak 2010.
- ↑ Il primo secolo della R. Accademia delle scienze di Torino (in Italian), Torino: Stamperia reale di G.B. Paravia e c., 1883, OL 24347595M
- ↑ Catalogue rangé dans un nouvel ordre pour l'utilité des gens de lettres contenant les livres françois, italiens, latins &c. qui se trouvent chez les frères Reycends, et Guibert libraires sur le coin de la ruë Neuve à Turin (in French). 1760.
- ↑ "Reycends frères". French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe Project, 1769-1794. University of Leeds. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ↑ "36 Hours in Turin". New York Times. June 28, 2012.
- ↑ Anthony L. Cardoza (1997), Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521593034
- ↑ Bertolotti 1840.
- ↑ Galleria Sabauda (Turin, Italy) (1899). Catalogo della Regia Pinacoteca di Torino (in Italian).
- ↑ Catalogo della armeria reale (in Italian). Torino: Tipografia editrice G. Candeletti. 1890.
- ↑ "Associazione Amici del Museo Storico Nazionale d'Artiglieria" (in Italian). Torino. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ↑ Annuario (in Italian). Regio Museo Industriale Italiano in Torino. 1898.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ A.J. Mackintosh (1907). "Mountaineering Clubs, 1857-1907". Alpine Journal. UK (177). hdl:2027/njp.32101076197365.
- ↑ "Timeline of opera", Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 30 June 2015
- 1 2 Tom Dunmore (2011). Historical Dictionary of Soccer. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7188-5.
- ↑ Hunter, Brian; Paxton, John; Steinberg, S. H.; Epstein, Mortimer; Renwick, Isaac Parker Anderson; Keltie, John Scott; Martin, Frederick (1899). "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590550 – via HathiTrust.
- 1 2 Ceranka, Paweł; Szczepanik, Krzysztof (2020). Urzędy konsularne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1918–1945. Informator archiwalny (in Polish). Warszawa: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych, Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych. p. 406. ISBN 978-83-65681-93-5.
- ↑ Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.
- ↑ Corby Kummer (May 2007). "The Supermarket of the Future". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia and the Italian Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- published in the 18th-19th century
- Frederic Leopold Stolberg (1796), "(Turin)", Travels through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily, Translated by Thomas Holcroft, London: G.G. and J. Robinson
- "Turin". A Geographical, Historical and Political Description of the Empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Prussia, Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia: With a Gazetteer. London: John Stockdale. 1800. OCLC 79519893.
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Turin", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- Mariana Starke (1839), "Turin", Travels in Europe (9th ed.), Paris: A. and W. Galignani
- Valery (1842). "Turin". Italy and its Comforts. London: Longman.
- Francis Coghlan (1847), "Turin", Handbook for European Tourists (2nd ed.), London: H. Hughes
- "Turin", Black's Guide to Italy, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1869
- "Turin", Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Northern Italy, London: T. Cook & Son, 1881
- William Pembroke Fetridge (1881), "Turin", Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
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- "Turin", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Italy, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1894
- "Turin", Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy (16th ed.), London: John Murray, 1897, OCLC 2231483
- published in the 20th-21st century
- "Turin", Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 12, New York, 1907
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Ashby, Thomas (1910). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). pp. 418–419.
- "Turin", Northern Italy (14th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913 + 1870 ed.
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- Martha Pollak (2010). "Paradigmatic Citadels: Antwerp/Turin". Cities at War in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-11344-1.
in other languages
- Modeste Paroletti (1826). Turin a la portée de l'étranger (in French). Turin: Freres Reycend.
- Davide Bertolotti (1840), Descrizione di Torino (in Italian), G. Pomba, OCLC 586330
- Luigi Cibrario (1846), Storia di Torino (in Italian), Alessandro Fontana. v.1, v.2
- Carlo Promis (1869), Storia dell'antica Torino (in Italian), Torino: Dalla Stamperia Reale
- V. Bersezio; et al. (1880). Torino (in Italian). Torino: Roux e Favale.
- Esposizione Generale Italiana in Torino 1884, Guida Ufficiale: Brevi cenni sulla citta e dintorni [Brief overview of the city and surroundings] (in Italian), Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice, 1884, OCLC 698384728, OL 25311191M
- "Torino". Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian) (6th ed.). Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese. 1887.
- "Turin". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). 1908.
- Pietro Toesca (1911), Torino (in Italian), Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, OL 22335598M
- Teofilo Rosse; Ferdinando Gabotto (1914), Storia di Torino (in Italian), Torino: Baravalle e Falconieri. v.1
- Boccalatte et al., eds. Torino in guerra: 1940-1945 (Turin: Gribaudo, 1995)
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