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Timeline of Palermo

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

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Prior to 19th century

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  • 734 BC – Phoenicians found Palermo{{Cite web|title=History of Palermo|url=http://www.italytravelescape.com/history-of-palermo.htm|access-date=2021-02-06|website=www.italytravelescape.com}}
  • 415 BC – Carthaginians in power,{{sfn|Haydn|1910}} but continue using Greek name Panormos on the city's coins.{{sfnp|Graham|1982|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0qAoqP4g1fEC&pg=PA186 186–7]}}
  • 276 BC – Conquered by Pyrrhus of Epirus.
  • 275 BC – Carthaginian reconquest.
  • 254 BC – Romans take Palermo under the Latin name Panormus.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 251 BC – Attempted Carthaginian reconquest fails in the Battle of Panormus.
  • 1st century AD – Catholic Diocese of Palermo established.
  • 440 – Vandal siege and conquest of Panormus.
  • 535 – Byzantine siege and conquest of Panormus.{{Cite book |title=A companion to medieval Palermo: the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500 |date=2013 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-22392-9 |editor-last=Nef |editor-first=Annliese |series=Brill's companions to European history |location=Leiden; Boston |pages=11 |editor-last2=Thom |editor-first2=Martin}}
  • 830 – August: Arabs begin siege of Palermo.
  • 831 – August: Saracens (Aghlabids){{Cite book |last=Nef |first=Annliese |title=A companion to medieval Palermo: the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500 |date=2013 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-22392-9 |series=Brill's companions to European history |location=Leiden Boston}} in power.{{sfn|Benigni|1911}}
  • 909 – Control transfers to Fatimids, entrusted to the Khalbid family.
  • c.1040 – Palermo is administered by a council.
  • 1072 – Normans, led by the Hauteville, take Palermo.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 1130 – Palermo becomes capital of the Kingdom of Sicily.{{Cite book |last=Nef |first=Annliese |title=A companion to medieval Palermo: the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500 |date=2013 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-22392-9 |series=Brill's companions to European history |location=Leiden Boston |pages=2}}
  • 1136 – San Giovanni degli Eremiti church built.
  • 1140 – Cappella Palatina consecrated.
  • 1143 – Martorana church founded.
  • 1160 – Chiesa di San Cataldo (church) built.
  • 1185 – Palermo Cathedral construction begins.
  • 1191 – {{Interlanguage link|Basilica della Santissima Trinità del Cancelliere|it}} active.
  • 1194 – Palermo is reattached to the Hohenstaufen empire, embroiling the region in a conflict between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, later transforming into a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.
  • 1265 – Sicily was integrated into the Angevin kingdom.
  • 1282 –
  • 30 March: Sicilian Vespers uprising against Anjou rule.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 4 September: Peter III of Aragon crowned as king of Sicily in Palermo Cathedral, Palermo returns to the "Aragonese orbit".
  • 1302 – The peace of Caltabelotta recognized the rule of Frederic III on the condition that upon his death Sicily be controlled by the papacy.{{Cite book |title=A companion to medieval Palermo: the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500 |date=2013 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-22392-9 |editor-last=Nef |editor-first=Annliese |series=Brill's companions to European history |location=Leiden; Boston |pages=3 |editor-last2=Thom |editor-first2=Martin}}
  • 1330 – Palazzo Sclafani built.{{sfn|Baedeker|1912}}
  • 1394 – University established.{{sfn|Overall|1870}}
  • 1450 – Revolt against Alfonso the Magnanimous, confrontation in Palermo.
  • 1460 – Porta Nuova (Palermo) (gate) built.{{sfn|Baedeker|1912}}
  • 1477 – Printing press in operation (approximate date).{{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: Palermo |hdl= 2027/uc1.c3450631?urlappend=%3Bseq=514 |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3450631?urlappend=%3Bseq=514 |via=HathiTrust }}
  • 1487 – Spanish inquisition introduced to Palermo by Ferdinand II (V) and his wife Isabella.
  • 1557 – September: Flood.(it)
  • 1584 – Fontana Pretoria (fountain) installed in the Piazza Pretoria.{{cite book|editor=Michael Wyatt|title= Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=weDGAwAAQBAJ|year= 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-99167-4 |chapter=Timeline |page=xxi+ }}
  • 1620 – Quattro Canti laid out.
  • 1676 – 2 June: Naval Battle of Palermo occurs offshore.
  • 1693 – 1693 Sicily earthquake.
  • 1726 – Earthquake.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 1734 – 2 September: Spanish conquest.
  • 1735 – 3 July: Charles V crowned as king of Sicily in Palermo Cathedral.
  • 1740 – Earthquake.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 1760 – Allegorical Apotheosis of Palermo artwork painted in the Palazzo Isnello.
  • 1790 – Palermo Astronomical Observatory founded.
  • 1795 – Botanical Garden of Palermo opens.

19th century

  • 1801 – Astronomer Piazzi discovers Ceres (dwarf planet).{{sfn|Baedeker|1912}}
  • 1806 – University of Palermo established.
  • 1837 – Cholera epidemic.{{cite book|title= American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge |year=1838 |location=Boston |publisher=Charles Bowen |chapter= Chronicle of Events from August 1836 to September 1837 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62UwAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA322 }}
  • 1848 – 12 January: Sicilian revolution of 1848 begins.
  • 1849 – 13 May: "Neapolitans capture Palermo."{{cite book|author =Joseph Irving|author-link =Joseph Irving|title=Annals of Our Time...1837 to...1871 |url=https://archive.org/details/annalsourtimeto00unkngoog|year=1880|publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location=London }}
  • 1860
  • 6 June: Forces of Garibaldi take Palermo.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • Giornale di Sicilia 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 }}
  • 1861
  • {{Interlanguage link|Teatro Garibaldi (Palermo)|it}} opens.{{cite web |url=http://www.provincia.palermo.it/turismo/tesori_d_arte/00008173_Teatri.html |title=Tesori d'arte a Palermo: Teatri |work=Palermo Turismo |language=it |publisher=Provincia Regionale di Palermo |access-date=30 January 2015 }}
  • Population: 199,911.
  • 1866 – Anti-government unrest; crackdown.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}{{cite book|author= Lucy Riall|author-link= Lucy Riall|title=Sicily and the Unification of Italy: Liberal Policy and Local Power, 1859–1866|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZg4ecXXmNYC|year=1998|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-154261-9}}
  • 1871 – Population: 219,938.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1873 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Italy |hdl=2027/nyp.33433081590360?urlappend=%3Bseq=356 |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590360?urlappend=%3Bseq=356 |last1=Hunter |first1=Brian }}
  • 1873 – {{interlanguage link|Società Siciliana per la Storia Patria|it}} (history society) founded.
  • 1886 – Palermo Centrale railway station opens.
  • 1891 – 15 November: Esposizione Nazionale di Palermo (exhibit) opens.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 1897
  • Teatro Massimo opens.
  • Population: 287,972.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1899 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Italy |hdl=2027/nyp.33433081590550?urlappend=%3Bseq=1081 |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590550?urlappend=%3Bseq=1081 |via=HathiTrust |last1=Hunter |first1=Brian }}
  • 1900 – L'Ora newspaper begins publication.(it)
  • US Città di Palermo was founded by Ignazio Majo Pagano

20th century

21st century

See also

References

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This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and German Wikipedia.

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=in English=

  • {{citation |last=Graham |first=A.J. |contribution=The Western Greeks |pages=163–195 |title=The Cambridge Ancient History |edition=2nd |volume=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0qAoqP4g1fEC Vol.{{nbsp}}III, Pt.{{nbsp}}3: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries {{sc|b.c.}}] |editor=John Boardman |editor2=N.G.L. Hammond |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |display-editors=0 |date=1982 }}.
  • {{Citation |publisher = G.G. and J. Robinson |location = London |author = Frederic Leopold Stolberg |author-link = Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg |translator=Thomas Holcroft |translator-link=Thomas Holcroft |title = Travels through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily |date = 1797 |chapter=(Palermo) |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/travelsthroughge02stol#page/246/mode/2up }}
  • {{cite book|editor= William Henry Overall|editor-link= William Henry Overall|title= Dictionary of Chronology|year=1870|publisher=William Tegg |location=London |chapter=Palermo |hdl= 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949?urlappend=%3Bseq=643|chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949?urlappend=%3Bseq=643

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

|chapter= Panormus

|title-link= Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography |hdl= 2027/hvd.ah5cur?urlappend=%3Bseq=563 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.ah5cur?urlappend=%3Bseq=563

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

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  • {{Citation |publisher = Longmans, Green and Co. |location = London |author = John Ramsay McCulloch |author-link = John Ramsay McCulloch |others=Hugh G. Reid, ed. |title = A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation |date = 1877

|chapter= Palermo

|hdl = 2027/njp.32101079877088?urlappend=%3Bseq=1097 |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101079877088?urlappend=%3Bseq=1097

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  • {{cite book|author=Douglas Sladen|author-link=Douglas Sladen|title=Sicily, the new winter resort: an encyclopaedia |year=1908|publisher=Methuen |chapter=Things of Palermo |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1b0YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA401 }} (includes timeline)
  • {{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= Palermo |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/1025/mode/1up

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

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  • {{cite book |title=Catholic Encyclopedia |chapter= Palermo |author= Umberto Benigni |title-link= Catholic Encyclopedia |author-link= Umberto Benigni |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/catholicencyclop11herbuoft#page/419/mode/1up |location=New York |year=1911

|ref = {{harvid|Benigni|1911}}

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  • {{Citation | publisher = Karl Baedeker | location = Leipzig | title = Southern Italy and Sicily | date = 1912 | edition = 16th |chapter=Palermo | hdl = 2027/uc1.b3867094?urlappend=%3Bseq=415 |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3867094?urlappend=%3Bseq=415

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

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  • {{cite book |title=Historic Cities of the Islamic World |url=https://archive.org/details/historiccitiesis00bosw |url-access=limited |editor=C. Edmund Bosworth |year=2007 |publisher=Koninklijke Brill |location=Leiden

|chapter=Palermo (Balarm) |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historiccitiesis00bosw/page/n438 424]–425 |author=F. Gabrieli

|isbn=9789004153882 |ref= {{harvid|Bosworth|2007}}

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  • {{cite book|title=Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |editor=Bloom and Blair |isbn=978-0-19-530991-1 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=un4WcfEASZwC

|chapter= Palermo

|ref= {{harvid|Bloom|2009}}

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  • {{cite book|title= Companion to Medieval Palermo: the History of a Mediterranean City from 600 to 1500|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-AUSBQAAQBAJ |editor= Annliese Nef |year=2013|publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-25253-0}}

=in Italian=

{{further interlanguage link|Bibliography of the history of Palermo|it|Storia di Palermo#Bibliografia}}

  • {{cite book |title=Guida generale di Sicilia e Malta: storica, artistica, commerciale |publisher={{interlanguage link|Niccolò Giannotta|it}} |language=it |location=Catania |edition=3rd

|year= 1889

|chapter= Palermo

|url= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100578766

}}

  • {{cite book|author= Gaetano Battaglia |title=Palermo: guida descrittiva, amministrativa e commerciale |publisher=G. Pedone Lauriel |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=uaxMAAAAMAAJ |language=it |year= 1902 }}
  • {{cite book

|title= Sicilia

|series=Guida d'Italia |publisher=Touring Club Italiano |location=Milan |language=it

|year=1919

|chapter= Palermo |page= 136+

|hdl=2027/uc1.$b535988 }}

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External links

{{Commons category|Palermo}}

  • Europeana. [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=palermo+italy&rows=96 Items related to Palermo], various dates.
  • Digital Public Library of America. [http://dp.la/search?page_size=100&q=palermo+italy&utf8=✓ Items related to Palermo], various dates.

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