1897 in Italy
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| Years in Italy: | 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 |
See also: 1896 in Italy, other events of 1897, 1898 in Italy.
Events from the year 1897 in Italy
Kingdom of Italy
- Monarch – Umberto I (1878–1900)
- Prime Minister – Antonio di Rudinì (1896–1898)
Events
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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 16 – Bernardino Grimaldi, Italian politician (b. 1837)
- March 27 – Paolo Angelo Ballerini, prelate (born 1814)
- August 20 – Michele Angiolillo, anarchist (born 1871)
- December 13 – Francesco Brioschi, mathematician (born 1825).
References
- ↑ Clark, Modern Italy, pp. 126–28
- ↑ "Fatti di maggio" in: Sarti, Italy: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present, p. 271
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