1900 in Italy

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See also: 1899 in Italy, other events of 1900, 1901 in Italy.

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Events from the year 1900 in Italy.

Kingdom of Italy

• Monarch –
  1. Umberto I (1878–1900)
  2. Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)
• Prime Minister -
  1. Luigi Pelloux (1898–1900)
  2. Giuseppe Saracco (1900–1901)
• Population – 32,377,000

Events

The killing of King Umberto I of Italy in Monza on July 29, 1900

The parliamentary year is dominated by an obstructionist campaign against the coercive Public Safety Bill introduced Prime Minister Luigi Pelloux the year before.^[1]

• January 14 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome, Italy.
• April 22 – First issue of L'Ora (The Hour), a Sicilian daily newspaper in Palermo, founded by the entrepreneurial Florio family.
• May – Due to obstruction of his new coercive Public Safety Bill by the Socialist Party of Italy (PSI), supported by the Left and Extreme Left, Prime Minister Luigi Pelloux dissolves the Chamber of Deputies.
• June 3 – First round of the Italian general election.
• June 10 – Second round of the Italian general election. The "ministerial" left-wing bloc of the Historical Left led by Giovanni Giolitti remains the largest in Parliament, winning 296 of the 508 seats. The model of strong government advocated by the conservative Sidney Sonnino is discredited. More moderate politicians like Giuseppe Zanardelli and Giovanni Giolitti resort back to more "conciliatory" politics.^[1]
• June 24 – Prime Minister Pelloux resigns and is succeeded by Giuseppe Saracco.
• July 29 – King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the Italo-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza. Bresci claimed to avenge the people killed during the 1898 Bava-Beccaris massacre. He is succeeded by his son Victor Emmanuel III.
• December 5 - Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy sign a treaty providing that their navies would work together in the event of an attack on either nation by France or Russia.

Births

• January 1 – Paola Borboni, Italian film actress (d. 1995)
• March 28 – Fosco Giachetti, Italian actor (d. 1974)
• April 14 – Salvatore Baccaloni, Italian operatic bass (d. 1969)
• May 1 – Ignazio Silone, Italian author (d. 1978)
• July 3 – Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism (d. 1987)
• August 9 – Enrico Persico, Italian physicist (d. 1969)
• November 29 – Nello Rosselli, Italian political leader, journalist, historian and anti-fascist activist in Giustizia e Libertà (d. 1937)

Deaths

• January 9 – Francesco Cirio, Italian businessman (b. 1836)
• January 18 – Domenico Farini, Italian politician (b. 1834)
• July 29 – Umberto I, King of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1844)
• October 17 – Luigi Ferraris, Italian politician (b. 1813)
• November 10 – Luigi Centurini, Italian chess player (b. 1820)
• December 2 – Consalvo Carelli, Italian landscape painter (b. 1818)
• December 31 – Giuseppe Boccini, Italian architect (b. 1840)

References

1. Sarti, Italy: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present, pp. 141-42

• Sarti, Roland (2004). Italy: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present, New York: Facts on File Inc., ISBN 0-81607-474-7