1924 in Italy
Incumbents
Events
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- 27 January – Treaty of Rome (1924){{cite web |title=Fiume question {{!}} European history {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Fiume-question |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=22 January 2022 |language=en}}
- 6 April – Italian general election, 1924
- 21 September – Inauguration of the Autostrada dei Laghi, the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world.{{Cite news |first=Thea |last=Lenarduzzi |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/the-worlds-first-motorway-piero-puricellis-masterpiece-is-the-focus-of-an-unlikely-pilgrimage-a6840816.html|title=The motorway that built Italy: Piero Puricelli's masterpiece|date=30 January 2016|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=12 May 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.motorwebmuseum.it/en/places/varese/the-milano-laghi-by-piero-puricelli-the-first-motorway-in-the-world/|title=The "Milano-Laghi" by Piero Puricelli, the first motorway in the world|access-date=10 May 2022}}
- 6 October – 1-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services
=Sport=
- 25 January to 5 February – Italy participated at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, with 23 competitors in 4 sports
- 4 May to 27 July – Italy participated at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Paris, with 200 competitors in 18 sports, winning a total of 16 medals (8 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze)
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- – The Benito Mussolini government pass a law in 1924 requiring that every school display a Crucifix.{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3339842 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125112816/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3339842 | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 25, 2020 | title=Italians get emotional about crucifix | website=NBC News }}{{cite web | url=https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/text_blocks/28978 | title=ECtHR, Lautsi and Others v. Italy, Grand Chamber Decision, App. No. 30814/06 (2011), excerpt }}
Births
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- 9 January – Walkiria Terradura, anti-fascist partisan (d. 2023)[https://www.rainews.it/tgr/umbria/articoli/2023/07/addio-alla-partigiana-walkiria-terradura-39f6cabe-4eb5-4bff-8c8e-79c686e98223.html Addio alla partigiana Walkiria Terradura] {{in lang|it}}
- 29 January – Luigi Nono, composer (d. 1990){{cite book |author=Larry Sitsky |title=Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sgDJKVXraE0C&pg=PA329 |year=2002 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-29689-5 |pages=329}}
- 2 February – Ignazio Colnaghi, actor (d. 2017){{cite web|url=http://necrologi.corriere.it/defunti/ignazio-colnaghi-00001|title=Obituary on Corriere della sera|date=26 November 2017|access-date=5 August 2018|language=it}}
- 8 March – Walter Chiari, actor (d. 1991)
- 23 April – Rossana Rossanda, politician and journalist (d. 2020)
- 30 June – Maino Neri, footballer (d. 1995)
- 9 July – Domenico Pace, fencer (d. 2022)
- 13 July - Carlo Bergonzi, operatic tenor (d. 2014)
- 4 August – Antonio Maccanico, Italian constitutional specialist, social liberal politician (d. 2013)
- 12 August – Lucy Salani, political activist (d. 2023)[https://ilglobo.com/en/news/transgender-holocaust-survivor-dies-aged-99-91688/ Transgender Holocaust survivor dies aged 99]
- 25 August – Sergio Bergonzelli, director, screenwriter, producer and actor (d. 2002)
- 19 September – Rosario Mazzola, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
- 8 November – Gino Scarpa, painter, printmaker and sculptor{{cite encyclopedia|title=Gino Scarpa |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Vibeke |last=Hurum |editor=Helle, Knut|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Gino_Scarpa | language=no |access-date=5 August 2018}} (d. 2022)
- 18 December – Alberto Ablondi, bishop (d. 2010)
Deaths
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- 8 April – Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, general, known for the Bava Beccaris massacre (b. 1831)
- 10 June – Giacomo Matteotti, politician (b. 1885)
- 17 July – Ricciotti Garibaldi, soldier (b. 1847)
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- Tito Conti, painter (b. 1842)[http://www.istitutomatteucci.it/it/dizionario-degli-artisti/conti-tito Conti Tito]
- Francesco Franceschi, horticulturist (b. 1843)