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Timeline of L'Aquila

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo, a region of Italy.

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Prior to 20th century

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  • 1240 – Settlement founded by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (approximate date).{{sfn|Domenico|2002}}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1257 – Roman Catholic diocese of L'Aquila active.{{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= 19 January 2017 }}
  • 1259 – Town sacked by forces of Manfred, King of Sicily.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1266 – Rebuilding of town by Charles I of Naples begins.{{cite web |work=Oxford Art Online |title= L'Aquila |author= Adriano Ghisetti Giavarina }} 21 January 2017{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1272
  • {{illm|Walls of L'Aquila|it|Mura dell'Aquila}} construction begins.
  • {{illm|Fontana delle 99 cannelle|it}} (fountain) built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1288 – Santa Maria di Collemaggio church consecrated near town.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1300 – Cathedral of San Massimo construction begins (approximate date).
  • 1308 – {{illm|Chiesa di Santa Maria Paganica|it}} (church) built.
  • 1309 – {{illm|Chiesa di San Domenico (L'Aquila)|it}} (church) construction begins.
  • 1315 – Earthquake.{{sfn|Baratta|1901}}(it)
  • 1349 – Earthquake.{{sfn|Baratta|1901}}(it)
  • 1423 – War of L'Aquila begins.
  • 1461 – {{illm|Earthquake of L'Aquila of 1461|it|Terremoto dell'Aquila del 1461}}.{{sfn|Baratta|1901}}
  • 1469 – Santa Maria del Soccorso church construction begins.(it)
  • 1472 – Basilica of San Bernardino built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1482 – Printing press in operation.{{cite book |title= Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum |author= Robert Proctor |author-link= Robert Proctor (bibliographer) |location=London |publisher= Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company |year= 1898 |chapter=Books Printed From Types: Italy: Aquila |hdl= 2027/uc1.c3450631?urlappend=%3Bseq=519 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3450631?urlappend=%3Bseq=519 |via=HathiTrust }}{{citation |work=Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: the International Database of 15th-century European Printing |publisher=British Library |location=UK |access-date= 3 December 2017 |url= http://data.cerl.org/istc/_search?query=data.imprint.imprint_place:%22Aquila%22 |title= Index: Place of Publication: Aquila }}
  • 1510 – {{illm|Palazzo Carli Benedetti|it}} built (approximate date).
  • 1517 – {{illm|Mausoleum of Pope Celestine V|it|Mausoleo di Celestino V}} built in the Santa Maria di Collemaggio church.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1521 – Spaniards in power.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1534 – Forte Spagnolo (fort) built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1596 - L'aquilanum Collegium founded.
  • 1646 – Earthquake.{{sfn|Baratta|1901}}
  • 1647 – {{illm|Oratorio di Sant'Antonio dei Cavalieri de' Nardis|it}} consecrated.
  • 1657 – Plague outbreak.{{cite web |url=http://www.comune.laquila.gov.it/pagina7_la-storia.html |title=La Citta: La storia |language=it |publisher= Comune di L’Aquila |access-date= 21 January 2017 }}
  • 1703 – 14 January: Earthquake.{{sfn|Domenico|2002}}
  • 1713 - Santa Maria del Suffragio construction begins.
  • 1719 – Accademia degli Arcadi Colonia Aternina founded.
  • 1725 – {{illm|Chiesa di Sant'Agostino (L'Aquila)|it}} (church) built.
  • 1743 – {{illm|Palazzo Ardinghelli|it}} built.
  • 1745 – Santa Caterina Martire church built (approximate date).(it)
  • 1756 – {{illm|Palazzo Centi|it}} built (approximate date).
  • 1775 – Santa Maria del Suffragio church completed.
  • 1786 – Earthquake.{{sfn|Baratta|1901}}(it)
  • 1799 – L'Aquila sacked by French forces.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1875 – L'Aquila railway station opens;{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} Sulmona-L'Aquila railway begins operating.
  • 1876 – Roman Catholic Archdiocese of L'Aquila established.
  • 1897 – Population: 21,202.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1899 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Italy |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590550?urlappend=%3Bseq=1081 |via=HathiTrust |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |hdl=2027/nyp.33433081590550?urlappend=%3Bseq=1081 |last1=Hunter |first1=Brian |last2=Paxton |first2=John |last3=Steinberg |first3=S. H. |last4=Epstein |first4=Mortimer |last5=Renwick |first5=Isaac Parker Anderson |last6=Keltie |first6=John Scott |last7=Martin |first7=Frederick }}

20th century

21st century

  • 2007 – {{illm|Italian local elections, 2007|it|Elezioni amministrative italiane del 2007|lt=Local election}} held; Massimo Cialente becomes mayor.
  • 2009
  • 6 April: 2009 L'Aquila earthquake.{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17435616 |title=Italy Profile: Timeline |work=BBC News |access-date= 19 January 2017 }}
  • July: International 35th G8 summit held in L'Aquila.
  • 2013 – Population: 68,304.{{cite web |url=http://demo.istat.it/pop2013/index_e.html |title=Resident Population |work=Demo-Geodemo |publisher=Istituto Nazionale di Statistica |access-date= 19 January 2017 }}
  • 2016 – {{illm|Stadio Gran Sasso d'Italia-Italo Acconcia|it}} (stadium) opens.
  • 2017 - Basilica di Collemaggio reopened.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ansa.it/abruzzo/notizie/2017/12/20/laquila-riapre-basilica-di-collemaggio_58bb4195-f0d0-40b1-9771-0ad3293a8fa3.html|title=L'Aquila, riapre Basilica di Collemaggio - Abruzzo|date=20 December 2017}}

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 EB1911|wstitle= Aquila (city) |volume= 2 | page = 249 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Dutton |location = New York |author = Augustus J. C. Hare |title = Cities of Southern Italy |date = 1911

|chapter= Aquila

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/citiesofsouthern00hareuoft#page/150/mode/2up |author-link = Augustus Hare }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Karl Baedeker |location = Leipzig |title = Southern Italy and Sicily |edition=16th |date = 1912

|chapter= Aquila

|chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/southernitalysi00karl#page/212/mode/2up

|ref = {{harvid|Baedeker|1912}}

}}

  • {{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= Abruzzo: L'Aquila |pages= 6+

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

}}

=in Italian=

{{further ill|Bibliography of the history of L'Aquila|it|Storia dell'Aquila#Bibliografia}}

  • {{cite book|author= Matilde Oddo Bonafede |title=Guida della città dell'Aquila|publisher= Tipografia Aternina |url=https://archive.org/details/guidadellacittad00bona|year=1888 }}
  • {{cite book

|editor= Nicola Bernardini |title=Guida della stampa periodica italiana |language=it |publisher=R. Tipografia editrice salentina dei fratelli Spacciante |location=Lecce |year= 1890

|chapter= Provincia di Aquila

|hdl=2027/njp.32101074983378?urlappend=%3Bseq=275 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101074983378?urlappend=%3Bseq=275

| ref = {{harvid|Bernardini|1890}}

}}

  • {{cite book|author=Mario Baratta |title=I terremoti d'Italia |trans-title=Earthquakes in Italy |year=1901|publisher=Fratelli Bocca |location=Turin |language=it

|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LIi7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA767

|chapter= Distribuzione topografica dei terremoti italiani: Abruzzo: Aquila

| ref = {{harvid|Baratta|1901}}

}} (includes chronology)

  • {{citation |title= Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) |language=it

|year= 1929

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

|chapter= L'Aquila

| ref = {{harvid|Treccani|1929}}

|title-link=Enciclopedia Italiana

}}

  • L. Serra. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/I/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Abruzzo/LAquila/LAquila/LAquila/_Texts/SERAQL/home.html Aquila] (Bergamo, 1929)
  • G. Spagnesi and P. L. Properzi. L’Aquila: Problemi di forma e storia della città (Bari, 1972)
  • M. Ruggiero Petrignani. Egemonia politica e forma urbana: L’Aquila, città come fabbrica di potere e di consenso nel medioevo italiano (Bari, 1980)
  • {{citation |author= S. Gizzi |title= La città dell'Aquila: Fondazione e preesistenze |work= Storia della Città |volume= 28 |year=1983 }}
  • A. Clementi and E. Piroddi. L’Aquila, Le città nella storia d’Italia (Rome, 1986)

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External links

{{Commons category|L'Aquila}}

  • [http://www.archiviodistatolaquila.beniculturali.it Archivio di Stato dell'Aquila] (state archives)
  • [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=Aquila+Italy&rows=96 Items related to L'Aquila], various dates (via Europeana)
  • [http://dp.la/search?page_size=100&q=Aquila+Italy&utf8=✓ Items related to L'Aquila], various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

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