Difference between revisions of "Language/Italian/Culture/Italy-Historical-Events"

'''1922-1943''' : Mussolini establishes a fascist regime. 

'''1935-36''' : conquest of Ethiopia. 

'''1943''' : Anglo-American landing. Mussolini takes refuge in the North where he creates the Republic of Salo. 

'''1944''' : Victor Emmanuel II abdicates. 

'''April 2000''' : the defeat of the center-left coalition in the regional elections leads to the resignation of Massimo d'Alema who is replaced by Giuliano Amato. 

'''May''' : victory for the right-wing coalition, the Maison des Libertés, led by Silvio Berlusconi who wins an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

'''October''' : referendum on federalism. 64% of voters approve the law strengthening the power of regions and local communities.  

'''March''' : assassination of Marco Biagi, adviser to the Ministry of Labor, claimed by the "Red Brigades for the constitution of the fighting Communist Party".

'''July''' : adoption of a law toughening immigration legislation. At the same time, 700,000 undocumented migrants are regularized. 

'''January''' : alongside the heads of state of eight European countries (Denmark, Spain, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic and Slovenia) Italy supports Washington, which pleads for military intervention in Iraq.

'''November''' : 18 Italian soldiers are killed in a car bomb attack on a military base in Nassiriyah (southern Iraq). 

'''January''' : the Constitutional Court invalidates a law, adopted in June 2003, which grants immunity, during their mandate, to the five most senior officials of the State.

'''June 2004''' : victory of the center-left opposition in local elections; it now controls ten of the twenty regions and 52 of the 63 provinces. 

'''April''' : the center-left wins the regional by-elections, winning 11 out of 13 regions. The ruling coalition loses six of the eight regions it led.

'''December''' : adoption of a new electoral law restoring the proportional system with a majority bonus.  

'''January''' : the Minister of Defense announces the total withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq before the end of 2006.

'''June''' : the Italians reject by 61% of "no" the constitutional revision project wanted by the previous government of Silvio Berluscon which granted more powers to the President of the Council and reinforced the autonomy of the regions.  

'''January''' : " waste crisis " in Naples. Nearly 100,000 tons of garbage pile up in the streets, due to malfunctioning treatment centers. Littering in the streets of Neapolitan has been a recurring problem since 1994.

'''February''' : dissolution of parliament after Romano Prodi lost a vote of confidence in the Senate and resigned in January. His room for maneuver was very narrow since his short legislative victory in 2006 and the establishment of a coalition ranging from the far left to centrist Catholics, made up of thirteen parties.

'''May''' : Silvio Berlusconi is appointed Chairman of the Board; it presents a government strongly anchored to the right.

'''August''' : Silvio Berlusconi apologizes "in the name of the Italian people" to Libya for the atrocities committed during the colonial occupation (1912-1945). Italy will pay $ 5 billion in compensation spread over twenty years. Rome wants in return that Tripoli collaborates in the fight against illegal immigration.  

'''January''' : Alitalia, threatened with bankruptcy, chooses Air France-KLM as a future partner to acquire a 25% stake in its capital.

'''December''' : Silvio Berlusconi is attacked by an imbalance during a meeting in Milan. 

'''January''' : more than a thousand African immigrants, who have come to pick fruit in Calabria , are forced into exodus after being victims of manhunts.