The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brindisi in the Apulia region of Italy.
Prior to 15th century
266 BCE – Romans in power. 244 BCE – Brundisium becomes a Roman colony. 190 BCE – Appian Way (Rome-Brundisium) built (approximate date). 49 BCE – The Siege of Brundisium occurs during Caesar's civil war. Caesar fails to prevent Pompey from crossing the Adriatic Sea. 40 BCE - The Treaty of Brundisium is signed after skirmishes between troops of Octavian and Mark Antony. The treaty places the western Roman territory in Gaul and Illyricum under Octavian influence. 38 BCE – "Foedus brundissinum, a brief reconciliation between Mark Antony and Octavian" takes place in Brundisium. 19 BCE – 21 September: Poet Virgil dies in Brundisium. 109 CE – Via Traiana (Beneventum-Brundisium road) built. 5th–6th C. CE – Roman Catholic diocese of Brindisi established. 7th C. CE – Lombards in power. 836 – Brindisi sacked by Saracens. 867 – Brindisi taken by forces of Louis II of Italy. 1071 – Normans in power. 1080 – (church) built. 1089 – dedicated. 1192 – (fountain) installed. 1225 – Wedding of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella II of Jerusalem. 1227 – (castle) built. 1230 – (church) built. 1310 – (church) built. 1322 – (church) built. 21 January 2017 1348 – Plague. 1352 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I of Hungary. 1383 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I, Duke of Anjou. 1385 – Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini in power.
15th–19th centuries 1456 – 1456 Central Italy earthquakes. (includes chronology) 1496 – Venetians in power. 1509 – Venetian rule ends. 1528 – One of Brindisi's collapses. 1734 - Francisco José de Ovando, 1st Marquis of Brindisi captures the castle of Brindisi. 1743 – 1743 Salento earthquake. 1860 Brindisi becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy. (provincial district) established. 1861 – Population: 9,137.(it) 1865 – Brindisi railway station opens. 1866 – Adriatic railway (Lecce-Brindisi) begins operating. 1870 Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company adds Brindisi to its route. Brindisi Marittima railway station opened (closed in 2006). 1871 – Population: 13,755. 1881 – Population: 16,618.(it) 1886 – Taranto–Brindisi railway begins operating. 1892 – Indipendente newspaper begins publication. 1898 – Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company deletes Brindisi from its route.
20th century
1901 – Population: 25,317. 1905 – Harbour railway station built. 1911 – Population: 25,692.(it) 1912 – F.B. Brindisi 1912 (football club) formed. 1916 – (seaplane base) built in the Port of Brindisi. 1923 – Brindisi – Salento Airport built. 1927 – Administrative Province of Brindisi formed. 1931 – (war monument) erected. 1933 – erected. 1934 - Brindisi Airport commercial flights start. 1936 – Population: 41,699.(it) 1943 – September: Italian prime minister Badoglio and king Victor Emmanuel flee to Brindisi from Rome after the Armistice of Cassibile during World War II. 1944 – February: Administrative seat of national government relocated from Brindisi to Salerno. 1961 – Population: 70,657.(it) 1963 – Archivio di Stato di Brindisi (state archives) established. 1969 – (transit entity) formed. 1979 – Quotidiano di Brindisi newspaper begins publication. 1991 – Population: 95,383.(it)
21st century
2006 – Teatro Verdi (Brindisi) (theatre) opens. 2012 – 19 May: Brindisi school bombing. 2013 – Population: 88,611. 2016 – June: Local election held; Angela Carluccio becomes mayor. 2018 – June: Local election held; Riccardo Rossi becomes mayor.
See also
List of mayors of Brindisi List of bishops of Brindisi region
Other cities in the macroregion of South Italy:(it) Timeline of Bari, Apulia region Timeline of L'Aquila, Abruzzo region Timeline of Naples, Campania region Timeline of Reggio Calabria Timeline of Salerno, Campania Timeline of Taranto, Apulia
References
This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
in Italian
A. Della Monaca. Memoria historica dell’antichissima e fedelissima città di Brindisi (Lecce 1674) A. De Leo. Dell’antichissima città di Brindisi e suo celebre porto (Naples, 1846)
F. Ascoli. La storia di Brindisi (Rimini 1886)
circa 1900?
R. Alaggio. Brindisi medievale. Natura, Santi e Sovrani in una città di frontiera (Naples, 2009)
External links
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