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Events relating to italy
Humbert I, the king of Italy, is assassinated by an Italian-American anarchist, Gaetano Bresci
Vast crowds line the streets for the Milan funeral of a national hero, the 87-year-old composer Giuseppe Verdi
The tenor Enrico Caruso cuts his first phonograph records in Milan, beginning an immensely successful recording career
Giuseppe Sarto is elected pope and takes the name Pius X
Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly falls victim at La Scala to claques paid for by rivals
The Simplon rail tunnel, the longest in the world (20 km), is opened between Switzerland and Italy
Maria Montessori establishes her first Casa dei Bambini in the deprived San Lorenzo district of Rome
Ezra Pound's first book of poems, A Lume Spento, is published in Italy
Europe's worst earthquake, centred on the Strait of Messina, kills up to 200,000 people in Sicily and southern Italy.
Italian educational pioneer Maria Montessori publishes The Montessori Method
Italy finds a reason to invade Libya, a province of the Turkish empire.
The Italian premier, Giovanni Giolitti, introduces reformist legislation including a national insurance act
Benito Mussolini, an active revolutionary Socialist, becomes editor of the party newspaper in Italy
Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya
Giacomo Balla attempts to paint movement in his futurist Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Italian Futurist sculptor Umberto Boccioni suggests human movement in his Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
The tenor Beniamino Gigli wins an international singing competition in Parma, and makes his operatic debut later in the same year
Giacomo della Chiesa is elected pope and takes the name Benedict XV
Benito Mussolini, advocating Italian entry into the war on the side of the Allies, is expelled from the Socialist party
Benito Mussolini founds a newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia' ('The People of Italy'), to argue the case for Italy joining the war
Italy declares neutrality amid the rush of other major European powers into war
In a secret pact, signed in London, Italy is promised territorial gains if she joins the Allied side
Italy revokes the Triple Alliance of 1882 that aligned her with Germany and Austria-Hungary
Italy declares war against Austria-Hungary, but not as yet against Germany
Ottorino Respighi completes his symphonic poem for orchestra Fountains of Rome, first performed in Rome the following year
