1902 in Italy

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See also: 1901 in Italy, other events of 1902, 1903 in Italy.

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Events from the year 1902 in Italy.

Kingdom of Italy

• Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)
• Prime Minister - Giuseppe Zanardelli (1901–1903)
• Population – 32,787,000

Events

• May 10 – The Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna (First International Exposition of Modern Decorative Arts) opens in Turin, spreading the popularity of Art Nouveau design.
• June 7 – Italy takes in possession its concession in Tientsin from the Chinese government.
• June 28 – The Triple Alliance among Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy is renewed by Foreign Minister Giulio Prinetti.
• June 30 – Italy and France sign a secret treaty whereby France agreed to back Italy's claims in Libya (Tripolitania), while Italy supported French influence in Morocco. Italy was to remain neutral in case of German aggression against France, undermining the Triple Alliance.^[1][2]
• July 14 – St Mark's Campanile, one of the most recognizable symbols of the city of Venice, collapses.
• November 10 - Bocconi University is founded by Ferdinando Bocconi in Milan.
• December 9 – Start of the Venezuelan crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela in order to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims and President Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay foreign debts and damages suffered by European citizens in the 1892 Venezuelan civil war.

Births

• April 18 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician and Prime Minister (d. 1981)
• September 20 – Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of Italian neorealism (d. 1989)
• November 29 – Carlo Levi, Italian-Jewish anti-fascist and writer of Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ Stopped at Eboli) (d. 1975)
• November 30 – Maria Bellonci, Italian writer, historian and journalist (d. 1986)

Deaths

• March 28 – Angelo Dubini, Italian physician (b. 1813)
• May 7 – Guido Boggiani, "pioneer of fieldwork" in Italian ethnology (b. 1861)

References

1. Clark, Modern Italy: 1871 to the present, p. 184
2. Childs, Italo-Turkish Diplomacy and the War Over Libya, pp. 6-7

• Childs, Timothy Winston (1990). Italo-Turkish Diplomacy and the War Over Libya: 1911-1912, Leiden: E.J. Brill, ISBN 90-04-09025-8
• Clark, Martin (2008). Modern Italy: 1871 to the present, Harlow: Pearson Education, ISBN 1-4058-2352-6