1897 in Italy

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See also: 1896 in Italy, other events of 1897, 1898 in Italy.

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Events from the year 1897 in Italy

Kingdom of Italy

• Monarch – Umberto I (1878–1900)
• Prime Minister – Antonio di Rudinì (1896–1898)

Events

King Umberto I attacked by the anarchist Pietro Acciarito

In 1897 the wheat harvest in Italy was substantially lower than the years before; it fell from on average 3.5 million tons in 1891–95 to 2.4 million tons that year.^[1][2] Increasing wheat prices caused social unrest.

• March 21 – First round of the Italian general election, 1897
• March 28 – Second round of the Italian general election, 1897. The "Ministerial" left-wing bloc, led by Giovanni Giolitti remained the largest in Parliament, winning 327 of the 508 seats.
• April 22 – King Umberto I is attacked by an unemployed anarchist ironsmith, Pietro Acciarito, who tried to stab him near Rome.
• May 16 – The Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Sicily, the third largest opera house—after the Palais Garnier in Paris and the K. K. Hof-Opernhaus in Vienna—was inaugurated with a performance of Verdi's Falstaff conducted by Leopoldo Mugnone.

Sports

• April 10 – James Richardson Spensley opened the footballing section for the Genoa Cricket & Athletics Club, a cricket and athletics club formed by British expatriates, and was put in place as its first ever manager.^[3]
• November 1 – Juventus F.C. founded as Sport-Club Juventus by a group of young students from Turin.

Births

• February 27 – Edmond Amateis, sculptor (died 1981)
• June 15 – Carlo Scorza, Fascist leader (died 1988)
• December 19 – Vasco Ronchi, physicist (died 1988)

Deaths

• February 7 – Galileo Ferraris, physicist (born 1847)
• March 10 – Teodulo Mabellini, composer (born 1817)
• March 27 – Paolo Angelo Ballerini, prelate (born 1814)
• August 20 – Michele Angiolillo, anarchist (born 1871)
• December 13 – Francesco Brioschi, mathematician (born 1825).

References

1. Clark, Modern Italy, pp. 126–28
2. "Fatti di maggio" in: Sarti, Italy: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present, p. 271
3. "Genoa". Channel4.com. Retrieved August 2007.