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Timeline of Brindisi

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brindisi in the Apulia region of Italy.

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Prior to 15th century

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  • 266 BCE – Romans in power.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 244 BCE – Brundisium becomes a Roman colony.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 190 BCE – Appian Way (Rome-Brundisium) built (approximate date).
  • 49 BCE – The Siege of Brundisium occurs during Caesar's civil war. Caesar fails to prevent Pompey from crossing the Adriatic Sea.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 40 BCE - The Treaty of Brundisium is signed after skirmishes between troops of Octavian and Mark Antony. The treaty places the western Roman territory in Gaul and Illyricum under Octavian influence.{{cite book |last=Pelling |first=C |chapter=The triumviral period |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZLW4-wba7UC |title=The Augustan empire, 43 BC–AD 69 |series=Cambridge Ancient History |volume=10 |edition=2nd |date=1996 |editor-first1=Alan K |editor-last1=Bowman |editor-first2=Edward |editor-last2=Champlin |editor-first3=Andrew |editor-last3=Lintott |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-26430-8 |pages=1–69}}
  • 38 BCE – "Foedus brundissinum, a brief reconciliation between Mark Antony and Octavian" takes place in Brundisium.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 19 BCE – 21 September: Poet Virgil dies in Brundisium.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 109 CE – Via Traiana (Beneventum-Brundisium road) built.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 5th–6th C. CE – Roman Catholic diocese of Brindisi established.{{cite web |title=Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy |url= http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/verden/chronology/italy |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo |location=Norway |access-date= 21 January 2017 }}
  • 7th C. CE – Lombards in power.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 836 – Brindisi sacked by Saracens.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 867 – Brindisi taken by forces of Louis II of Italy.{{sfn|Domenico|2002}}
  • 1071 – Normans in power.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1080 – {{illm|Chiesa di San Benedetto (Brindisi)|it}} (church) built.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 1089 – {{illm|Brindisi Cathedral|it|Cattedrale di Brindisi}} dedicated.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 1192 – {{illm|Fontana Tancredi|it}} (fountain) installed.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 1225 – Wedding of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella II of Jerusalem.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 1227 – {{illm|Castello svevo (Brindisi)|it}} (castle) built.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 1230 – {{illm|Chiesa del Cristo (Brindisi)|it}} (church) built.
  • 1310 – {{illm|Chiesa di Santa Maria del Casale|it}} (church) built.
  • 1322 – {{illm|Chiesa di San Paolo eremita|it}} (church) built.{{cite web |work=Oxford Art Online |title= Brindisi |author= Pina Belli D’Elia }} 21 January 2017
  • 1348 – Plague.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1352 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I of Hungary.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 1383 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I, Duke of Anjou.{{sfn|Barker|2004}}
  • 1385 – Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini in power.{{sfn|Domenico|2002}}

15th–19th centuries

20th century

  • 1901 – Population: 25,317.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1905 – Harbour railway station built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1911 – Population: 25,692.(it)
  • 1912 – F.B. Brindisi 1912 (football club) formed.
  • 1916 – {{illm|Idroscalo di Brindisi|it}} (seaplane base) built in the Port of Brindisi.
  • 1923 – Brindisi – Salento Airport built.
  • 1927 – Administrative Province of Brindisi formed.{{sfn|Domenico|2002}}
  • 1931 – {{illm|Monumento ai caduti della prima guerra mondiale (Brindisi)|it}} (war monument) erected.
  • 1933 – {{illm|Monumento al Marinaio d'Italia|it}} erected.{{cite web |url=http://www.comune.brindisi.it/brindisi/zf/index.php/storia-comune |title=Storia del comune |work= Città di Brindisi |language=it |author=Comune di Brindisi |publisher=Halley Informatica |access-date= 21 January 2017 }}
  • 1934 - Brindisi Airport commercial flights start.
  • 1936 – Population: 41,699.(it)
  • 1943 – September: Italian prime minister Badoglio and king Victor Emmanuel flee to Brindisi from Rome after the Armistice of Cassibile during World War II.{{cite book|author1=Mark Gilbert|author2=Robert K. Nilsson|title=Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy |year= 2007|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6428-3 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XQCyAAAAQBAJ }}
  • 1944 – February: Administrative seat of national government relocated from Brindisi to Salerno.{{sfn|Domenico|2002}}
  • 1961 – Population: 70,657.(it)
  • 1963 – Archivio di Stato di Brindisi (state archives) established.{{cite web |url=http://www.asbrindisi.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/97/listituto |title=Archivio di Stato di Brindisi: L'Istituto |language=it |publisher=Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo |access-date= 21 January 2017 }}
  • 1969 – {{illm|STP (Brindisi)|it|lt=Azienda Municipalizzata Autotrasporti Brindisi }} (transit entity) formed.
  • 1979 – Quotidiano di Brindisi newspaper begins publication.{{cite book|title=Western Europe |edition=5th |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9QYndAPmuQC|year=2003|publisher=Europa Publications |chapter=Italy |isbn=978-1-85743-152-0 |series=Regional Surveys of the World }}
  • 1991 – Population: 95,383.(it)

21st century

See also

Other cities in the macroregion of South Italy:(it)

References

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This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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=in English=

  • {{cite book |title= Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography |editor= William Smith |location=London |publisher= John Murray |orig-year=1854 |year= 1872

|chapter= Brundisium

|title-link= Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography |hdl= 2027/hvd.ah5cuq?urlappend=%3Bseq=464 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.ah5cuq?urlappend=%3Bseq=464 |via=HathiTrust

| ref = {{harvid|Smith|1872}}

}}

  • {{cite book

|title= Chambers's Encyclopaedia

|title-link= Chambers's Encyclopaedia

|location= London

|year= 1901

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/chamberssency02lond#page/454/mode/2up |via=Internet Archive

|chapter= Brindisi

| ref = {{harvid|Chambers|1901}}

}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Karl Baedeker |location = Leipzig |title = Southern Italy and Sicily |edition=15th |date = 1908

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/southernitalysic00karl#page/232/mode/2up

|chapter= Brindisi

}}

  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Brindisi |volume= 4 |last= Ashby |first= Thomas |author-link=Thomas Ashby (archaeologist)| pages = 571–572 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation

|publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |author = Benjamin Vincent |title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |edition = 25th

|date = 1910

|chapter= Brundisium

|hdl = 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t41r6xh8t?urlappend=%3Bseq=228 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t41r6xh8t?urlappend=%3Bseq=228

|ref = {{harvid|Haydn|1910}}

}}

|hdl=2027/uiug.30112105110164 }}

  • {{cite book

|title= Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture |author=Roy Domenico |publisher=Greenwood|isbn= 0313307334 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZ-PMNC5XOkC

|year=2002

|chapter= Apulia: Brindisi |pages= 23+

|ref= {{harvid|Domenico|2002}}

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia

|editor= Christopher Kleinhenz |publisher=Routledge|isbn=0415939291 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2CTAgAAQBAJ

|year= 2004

|chapter= Brindisi |pages= 157–158 |author=John W. Barker

|ref= {{harvid|Barker|2004}}

}}

=in Italian=

{{further ill|Bibliography of the history of Brindisi|it|Storia di Brindisi#Bibliografia}}

  • A. Della Monaca. Memoria historica dell’antichissima e fedelissima città di Brindisi (Lecce 1674)
  • A. De Leo. Dell’antichissima città di Brindisi e suo celebre porto (Naples, 1846)
  • {{cite book |title=Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana |title-link=Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana |language=it |publisher = Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese |location = Turin |edition=6th

|year=1877 |volume=4

|chapter= Brindisi

|hdl=2027/uc1.c2649802?urlappend=%3Bseq=238 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2649802?urlappend=%3Bseq=238

}}

  • F. Ascoli. La storia di Brindisi (Rimini 1886)
  • {{citation |title=Annuario della stampa italiana |language=it |location=Milan |editor=Henry Berger |year=1899

|chapter= Giornali Italiani (per ordine di localita): Brindisi

|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ti5AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA380

|ref= {{harvid|Berger|1899}}

}}

  • {{cite book |author= Touring Club Italiano |series=Guide Regionali Illustrate |title=Puglie |language=it

|chapter= Brindisi

|hdl=2027/uc1.c035947291?urlappend=%3Bseq=49 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c035947291?urlappend=%3Bseq=49

}} circa 1900?

  • {{cite book |author= Guerrieri |title= Gli Ebrei a Brindisi e a Lecce |location=Turin |year=1901 }}
  • {{citation |title= Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) |title-link=Enciclopedia Italiana

|language=it

|year= 1930

|chapter-url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/brindisi_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/

|chapter= Brindisi

| ref = {{harvid|Treccani|1930}}

}}

  • R. Alaggio. Brindisi medievale. Natura, Santi e Sovrani in una città di frontiera (Naples, 2009)

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External links

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