Timeline of Genoa

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Genoa, Liguria, Italy.

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Prior to 16th century

Genoa Cathedral was consecrated in 1118

• 209 BC - Town sacked by Carthaginians.[1]
• 643 AD - Lombards take power (approximate date).
• 900 - Santa Maria di Castello built (approximate date).
• 935 - Fatimid sack of Genoa
• 972 - Santo Stefano consecrated.
• 1005 - Republic of Genoa established.
• 1049 - Santi Cosma e Damiano construction begins.
• 1118 - Genoa Cathedral consecrated.
• 1125 - San Matteo founded.
• 1133 - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Genoa created.
• 1163 - Porta Soprana, Porta dei Vacca, and Porta Aurea built (approximate date).
• 1189 - San Donato consecrated.
• 1260
  • Palazzo San Giorgio built.[1]
  • Sant'Agostino consecrated.
• 1275 - Doge's Palace built.
• 1284 - Battle of Meloria.
• 1308 - San Bartolomeo degli Armeni founded.
• 1330 - Fortifications expanded (approximate date).[1]
• 1339 - Simone Boccanegra appointed doge.[1]
• 1347 - Black Death plague.
• 1354 - Public clock installed.[2]
• 1407 - Banco di San Giorgio founded.
• 1453 - Oratory of San Giacomo della Marina built.
• 1474 - Printing press in operation (approximate date).[3]
• 1481 - University of Genoa established.

16th-18th centuries

The current Lighthouse of Genoa was first lit in 1543

• 1520 - Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato construction begins.
• 1540 - Palazzo Bianco built.
• 1543 - Lighthouse of Genoa lit.
• 1576 - Rolli di Genova created.
• 1583
  • Strada Maggiore laid out.
  • Santa Maria Assunta, Genoa consecrated.
• 1585 - San Pietro in Banchi, Genoa built.
• 1619 - San Siro restored.
• 1624 - Basilica di Nostra Signora Assunta, Genoa built.
• 1625 - Relief of Genoa.
• 1632 - Fortifications expanded (approximate date).[1]
• 1639 - Michele Castelli publishes the Genova (newspaper 1639–1646), the oldest newspaper of Italy
• 1642 - Alessandro Botticelli publishes the Genova (newspaper 1642–1684), later known as Il Sincero
• 1655 - Palazzo Stefano Balbi built.
• 1677 - Palazzo Rosso built.
• 1684 - Bombardment of Genoa.
• 1706 - The church of the Nostra Signora della Consolazione e San Vincenzo martire built.
• 1733 - San Torpete rebuilt.
• 1747 - Siege of Genoa.
• 1770 - Santissimo Nome di Maria e degli Angeli Custodi built.
• 1775 - Biblioteca Civica Berio (library) established.
• 1777 - The newspaper Avvisi started to be printed.
• 1794 - Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi established.
• 1797 - Genoa becomes part of Ligurian Republic.

Map of Genoa, ca.1800

• 1800
  • April - Siege of Genoa.
  • April - Battle of Sassello.

19th century

Genoa State Archives, established 1817

Statue of Columbus at the Albertis Castle, built in 1892 to mark the 400th anniversary of his first voyage

• 1803 - Orto Botanico dell'Università di Genova established.
• 1814 - Revolt against France.
• 1815
  • Republic of Genoa ends.
  • Genoa incorporated into Piedmont (Kingdom of Sardinia)
• 1817 - Archivio di Stato di Genova (state archives) established.[4]
• 1824 - Corriere Mercantile newspaper begins publication.[5]
• 1828 - Teatro Carlo Felice opens.
• 1837 - Acquasola park laid out.[1]
• 1846 - Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini park constructed.
• 1849
  • Revolt of Genoa.
  • Santi Quirico e Giulitta renovation begins.
• 1851 - Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno established.
• 1853 - Genova Sampierdarena railway station built.
• 1857 - Società Ligure di Storia Patria (history society) founded.
• 1860 - Genova Piazza Principe railway station opens.
• 1867 - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova opens.
• 1868 - Genoa–Ventimiglia railway begins operating.
• 1870 - Banca di Genova established.
• 1871 - Population: 130,269.[6]
• 1876 - Via di Circonvallazione a Monte laid out.[1]
• 1879 - Yacht Club Italiano founded.
• 1887 - Via XX Settembre laid out.[1]
• 1890 - Stazione marittima di Genova built.
• 1892
  • Albertis Castle built.
  • Congresso geografico italiano holds its first conference in Genoa.
• 1893
  • Genoa Cricket and Football Club founded.
  • Garibaldi statue in Piazza De Ferrari unveiled.[1]
• 1895 - Via di Circonvallazione a Mare laid out.[1]
• 1897 - Population: 228,862.[7]

20th century

The Stadio Luigi Ferraris opened in 1911 and was a venue for the 1990 FIFA World Cup

• 1905
  • Genova Brignole railway station opens.
  • Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art opens.[8]
• 1911 - Stadio Luigi Ferraris opens as the Marassi.
• 1912 - Stock exchange built.
• 1914 - International exhibition of marine and maritime hygiene is held.
• 1915 - Corso Italia constructed.
• 1922
  • City hosts Genoa Conference.
  • Palazzo Reale opens as a public museum.[9]
• 1936 - Museo di Archeologia Ligure founded.
• 1938 - First trolleybus system opens.
• 1940 - Terrazza Martini Tower built.
• 1946 - U.C. Sampdoria football club formed.
• 1962
  • Airport opens.
  • Genoa International Boat Show begins.
• 1970 - 7 October: Genoa flood of 1970.
• 1973 - First trolleybus system closes.
• 1975 - Teatro della Tosse founded.
• 1990
  • Genoa Metro begins operating.
  • City hosts 1990 FIFA World Cup games.
• 1992
  • Aquarium opens.
  • Genoa Expo '92 held.
• 1997 - Second trolleybus system opens.
• 1999 - Deledda International School established.

21st century

• 2001 - City hosts 27th G8 summit.
• 2004
  • City designated a European Capital of Culture.
  • Galata Museo del Mare opens.
• 2012 - Marco Doria elected mayor.[10]
• 2017 - Marco Bucci elected mayor.
• 2018 - Ponte Morandi bridge collapses. Marco Bucci appointed commissioner for the reconstruction of the new bridge.[11]
• 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic - Viadotto Genova-San Giorgio rebuilt during the COVID-19 pandemic to replace the Ponte Morandi. It projected by Renzo Piano.

See also

• History of Genoa
• List of mayors of Genoa
• Republic of Genoa (1005–1815)
• Doge of Genoa
• Dukes of Genoa (1831-1996)

Timelines of other cities in the macroregion of Northwest Italy:^(it)

• Lombardy region: Timeline of Bergamo; Brescia; Cremona; Mantua; Milan; Pavia
• Piedmont region: Timeline of Novara; Turin

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). "The First Public Clocks". History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
3. Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy: Genova". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450631 – via HathiTrust.
4. "Archivio di Stato di Genova". Guida generale degli Archivi di Stato italiani (in Italian). Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
5. "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
6. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1873. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590360.
7. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590550 – via HathiTrust.
8. Vittorio Pica (1907), L'arte giapponese al Museo Chiossone di Genova (in Italian), Bergamo: Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche
9. Museum Palazzo Reale. "Introduction". Genova. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
10. "Italian mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
11. "Genova, il sindaco Bucci nominato commissario per la ricostruzione del ponte". ilgiornale.it. ilgiornale.it. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2020.

Bibliography

in English

Published in the 19th century

• Mariana Starke (1839), "Genoa", Travels in Europe (9th ed.), Paris: A. and W. Galignani
• Henry Jones Bunnett (1844), A description, historical and topographical of Genoa, London: John Russell Smith, OL 24511982M
• Charles Dickens (1846), "Genoa and its Neighbourhood", Pictures from Italy, London: Bradbury & Evans
• William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Genua". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cuq.
• John Ramsay McCulloch (1877), "Genoa", A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, Hugh G. Reid, ed., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., hdl:2027/njp.32101079877088
• J. Theodore Bent (1881), Genoa: how the Republic rose and fell, London: Paul, OL 7047054M
• Noah Brooks (1895), "Genoa", The Mediterranean Trip, C. Scribner's Sons, OCLC 1315401

Published in the 20th-21st century

• Robert Walter Carden (1908), The city of Genoa, London: Methuen, OCLC 2471515, OL 23288656M
• "Genoa", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• "Genoa", Northern Italy (14th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913 + 1870 ed.
• Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Genoa". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. OCLC 31045650.
• Giuseppi Felloni (2002). "Population dynamics and economic development of Genoa, 1750-1939". In Richard Lawton and W. Robert Lee (ed.). Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c.1650-1939. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-435-7.

in Italian

See also: Bibliography of Genoa

• "Genova". Ligúria, Toscana settentrionale, Emília. Guida d'Italia (in Italian). Milan: Touring Club Italiano. 1916. p. 89+. hdl:2027/wu.89003452653.
• "Genova nella guerra, 1940-1945". Storia e Memoria (in Italian). 1. 1993.

in Ukrainian

• Гавриленко О. А., Сівальньов О. М., Цибулькін В. В. Генуезька спадщина на теренах України; етнодержавознавчий вимір. — Харків: Точка, 2017.— 260 с. — ISBN 978-617-669-209-6

External links

• Europeana. Items related to Genoa, various dates.