Timeline of Palermo

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

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Prior to 19th century

• 415 BC – Carthaginians in power,[1] but continue using Greek name Panormos on the city's coins.[2]
• 276 BC – Conquered by Pyrrhus of Epirus.
• 275 BC – Carthaginian reconquest.
• 254 BC – Romans take Palermo under the Latin name Panormus.[1]
• 251 BC – Attempted Carthaginian reconquest fails in the Battle of Panormus.
• 1st century AD – Catholic Diocese of Palermo established.
• 440 – Vandal siege and conquest of Panormus.
• 535 – Byzantine siege and conquest of Panormus.
• 830 – August: Arabs begin siege of Palermo.
• 831 – August: Saracens in power.[3]
• 1072 – Normans take Palermo.[1]
• 1130 – Palermo becomes capital of the Kingdom of Sicily.
• 1136 – San Giovanni degli Eremiti church built.
• 1140 – Cappella Palatina consecrated.
• 1143 – Martorana church founded.
• 1160 – Chiesa di San Cataldo (church) built.
• 1185 – Palermo Cathedral construction begins.
• 1191 – Basilica della Santissima Trinità del Cancelliere active.
• 1282
  • 30 March: Sicilian Vespers uprising against Anjou rule.[1]
  • 4 September: Peter I crowned as king of Sicily in Palermo Cathedral.
• 1330 – Palazzo Sclafani built.[4]
• 1394 – University established.[5]
• 1460 – Porta Nuova (Palermo) (gate) built.[4]
• 1477 – Printing press in operation (approximate date).[6]
• 1557 – September: Flood.^(it)
• 1584 – Fontana Pretoria (fountain) installed in the Piazza Pretoria.[7]
• 1620 – Quattro Canti laid out.
• 1676 – 2 June: Naval Battle of Palermo occurs offshore.
• 1693 – 1693 Sicily earthquake.
• 1726 – Earthquake.[1]
• 1734 – 2 September: Spanish conquest.
• 1735 – 3 July: Charles V crowned as king of Sicily in Palermo Cathedral.
• 1740 – Earthquake.[1]
• 1760 – Allegorical Apotheosis of Palermo artwork painted in the Palazzo Isnello.
• 1790 – Palermo Astronomical Observatory founded.
• 1795 – Botanical Garden of Palermo opens.

19th century

• 1801 – Astronomer Piazzi discovers Ceres (dwarf planet).[4]
• 1806 – University of Palermo established.
• 1837 – Cholera epidemic.[8]
• 1848 – 12 January: Sicilian revolution of 1848 begins.[9]
• 1849 – 13 May: "Neapolitans capture Palermo."[9]
• 1860
  • 6 June: Forces of Garibaldi take Palermo.[1]
  • Giornale di Sicilia newspaper begins publication.[10]
• 1861
  • Teatro Garibaldi (Palermo) opens.[11]
  • Population: 199,911.
• 1866 – Anti-government unrest; crackdown.[1][12]
• 1871 – Population: 219,938.[13]
• 1873 – Società Siciliana per la Storia Patria (history society) founded.
• 1886 – Palermo Centrale railway station opens.
• 1891 – 15 November: Esposizione Nazionale di Palermo (exhibit) opens.[1]
• 1897
  • Teatro Massimo opens.
  • Population: 287,972.[14]
• 1900 – L'Ora newspaper begins publication.^(it)
  • US Città di Palermo was founded by Ignazio Majo Pagano

20th century

• 1901 – Population: 309,566.
• 1906 - First edition of Targa Florio.
• 1919 - Gonzaga Institute, Palermo founded by Jesuits.
• 1930 – Cinema Orfeo opens.[15]
• 1931
  • February: Palermo flood of 1931.
  • Palermo–Boccadifalco Airport opens.
• 1932 – Stadio Littorio (stadium) opens.
• 1936 – Population: 411,879.
• 1940-1945 - Palermo is bombed during the Second War World.
• 1943 – 22 July: Allied forces arrive in Palermo.
• 1947 – Sicilian Regional Assembly headquartered in city.
• 1950s/1980s - Sack of Palermo.
• 1953 – Cinema Astoria opens.[15]
• 1957 – October: Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957.
• 1960 – Palermo Airport opens.
• 1961 – Population: 587,985.
• 1970 - Mauro De Mauro disappeared.
• 1971 – Population: 642,814.
• 1974 – Palermo Notarbartolo railway station opens.
• 1979 - Mario Francese and Boris Giuliano killed.
• 1980 - Piersanti Mattarella and Gaetano Costa killed.
• 1981 – Population: 701,782.
• 1982 - Pio La Torre, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa and his wife Emanuela Setti Carraro killed.
• 1983 - Rocco Chinnici and Mario D’Aleo killed.
• 1985 – Antonino Cassarà killed.
  • March: Sicilian local election, 1985 held.
• 1986 – Maxi Trial begins.[16]
• 1988 – Internazionali Femminili di Palermo tennis tournament begins.
• 1990 – Palermo metropolitan railway service begins operating.
  • Palermo hosts some matches of 1990 World Cup.
• 1991 – Population: 698,556.
• 1992 – Anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino killed.[17]
• 1993 – Pino Puglisi killed.
  • Leoluca Orlando becomes mayor.

21st century

• 2001 – Diego Cammarata becomes mayor.
• 2006 – Paolo Romeo becomes archbishop.
• 2007 – March: Sicilian local election, 2007 held.
• 2010 – UCI Palermo cinema opens.[15]
• 2012 – Leoluca Orlando becomes mayor again.
• 2013 – Population: 654,987 city; 1,243,638 province.[18]
• 2015 - Palermo’s Itinerario Arabo-Normanno proclaimed World Heritage Site by Unesco.
  • The Palermitan Sergio Mattarella becomes President of Italian Republic.
• 2018 - Palermo is “Capitale Italiana della cultura” and hosts the 12th edition of Manifesta.
  • Pope Francis visits the city.

See also

• History of Palermo
• List of mayors of Palermo
• List of landmarks in Palermo
• Archivio di Stato di Palermo (state archives)
• History of Sicily
• Timelines of other cities in the macroregion of Insular Italy:^(it)
  • Sardinia: Timeline of Cagliari
  • Sicily: Timeline of Catania, Messina, Syracuse, Trapani

References

Citations

1. Haydn 1910.
2. Graham (1982), p. 186–7.
3. Benigni 1911.
4. Baedeker 1912.
5. Overall 1870.
6. Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy: Palermo". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company – via HathiTrust.
7. Michael Wyatt, ed. (2014). "Timeline". Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. p. xxi+. ISBN 978-1-139-99167-4.
8. "Chronicle of Events from August 1836 to September 1837". American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge. Boston: Charles Bowen. 1838.
9. Joseph Irving (1880). Annals of Our Time...1837 to...1871. London: Macmillan and Co.
10. "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
11. "Tesori d'arte a Palermo: Teatri". Palermo Turismo (in Italian). Provincia Regionale di Palermo. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
12. Lucy Riall (1998). Sicily and the Unification of Italy: Liberal Policy and Local Power, 1859–1866. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-154261-9.
13. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1873.
14. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899 – via HathiTrust.
15. "Movie Theaters in Palermo". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
16. Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2007). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.
17. "Italy Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
18. "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 30 January 2015.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Graham, A.J. (1982), "The Western Greeks", The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. III, Pt. 3: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C. (2nd ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 163–195.
• Frederic Leopold Stolberg (1797), "(Palermo)", Travels through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily, translated by Thomas Holcroft, London: G.G. and J. Robinson
• William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Palermo". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
• William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Panormus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
• John Ramsay McCulloch (1877), "Palermo", A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, Hugh G. Reid, ed., London: Longmans, Green and Co.
• Douglas Sladen (1908). "Things of Palermo". Sicily, the new winter resort: an encyclopaedia. Methuen. (includes timeline)
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Palermo", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
• Umberto Benigni (1911). "Palermo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
• "Palermo", Southern Italy and Sicily (16th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912
• F. Gabrieli (2007). "Palermo (Balarm)". In C. Edmund Bosworth (ed.). Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 424–425.
• Bloom and Blair, ed. (2009). "Palermo". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-530991-1.
• Annliese Nef, ed. (2013). Companion to Medieval Palermo: the History of a Mediterranean City from 600 to 1500. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-25253-0.

in Italian

See also: Bibliography of the history of Palermo (in Italian)

• "Palermo". Guida generale di Sicilia e Malta: storica, artistica, commerciale (in Italian) (3rd ed.). Catania: Niccolò Giannotta. 1889.
• Gaetano Battaglia (1902). Palermo: guida descrittiva, amministrativa e commerciale (in Italian). G. Pedone Lauriel.
• "Palermo". Sicilia. Guida d'Italia (in Italian). Milan: Touring Club Italiano. 1919. p. 136+. hdl:2027/uc1.$b535988.

External links

• Europeana. Items related to Palermo, various dates.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Palermo, various dates.