The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Livorno in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Prior to 20th century
1077 - Matilda of Tuscany tower built. 1284 - Naval Battle of Meloria (1284) fought near Livorno with the win of Genoa. 1303 - Livorno Lighthouse built. 1399 - Livorno sold by Pisa to the Visconti. 1407 - Livorno becomes part of the Republic of Genoa. 1421 - Livorno becomes part of the Republic of Florence. 1423 - (tower) built. 1551 - Population: 749. 1571 - Port of Livorno construction begins. 1575 - Pisa-Livorno Navicelli channel created. 1603 - Synagogue of Livorno built. 1606 Livorno attains city status. Cathedral of Saint Francis of Assisi built. 1626 - Monument of the Four Moors erected in the Piazza Micheli. Retrieved 15 December 2016 1630 - Venezia Nuova area development begins. 1645 - Old English Cemetery, Livorno established (until 1838). 1653 - 4 March: Naval battle fought near city during the First Anglo-Dutch War. 1691 - Port declared Free port. 1718 - Status as free port confirmed in the War of the Quadruple Alliance. 1742 - Earthquake. (includes chronology)(it) 1796 - French forces enter city. 1806 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Livorno established. 1813 - Attempted siege of Livorno by British and Italian forces. 1816 - Biblioteca Labronica (library) founded. 1825 founded. "British 'factory'" closes. 1840 - New built. 1842 - built. 1847 - (theatre) opens. 1848 - Cisternino di città built. 1849 - May: by Austrian forces during the First Italian War of Independence. 1856 - Santa Maria del Soccorso, Livorno opened. 1857 - June: Fire. 1867 - Livorno–Rome railway opened. 1868 - Livorno's free port status ends. 1871 - Population: 97,096. 1872 - Chamber of Commerce headquartered in the . 1881 - Italian Naval Academy established. 1899 - City Archive opens on .
20th century
1901 - Population: 78,308. 1911 - Population: 105,315. 1915 - A.S. Livorno Calcio (football club) formed. 1920 - Scuola Labronica artists' group formed. 1921 - January: held in Livorno. 1935 (railway) begins operating. Stadio Edda Ciano Mussolini (stadium) opens. 1940 - in World War II begins. 1942 - built. 1943 - City bombed by allied forces in World War II; cathedral demolished. 1944 Bombing by allied forces. Furio Diaz becomes mayor. 1945 - Bombing of Livorno ends. 1953 - Cathedral reconstructed. 1954 - Nicola Badaloni becomes mayor. 1962 - New Synagogue of Livorno built. 1978 - Il Tirreno newspaper in publication. 1985 - May: held. 1992 - Gianfranco Lamberti becomes mayor. 1994 - Museo civico Giovanni Fattori (museum) moves into the .
21st century 2004 - Alessandro Cosimi becomes mayor. 2013 - Population: 156,998. 2014 - Filippo Nogarin becomes mayor. 2015 - Population: 159,431Istat 2015 - 31 May: Tuscan regional election, 2015 held. 2019 - Luca Salvetti becomes mayor.
See also History of Livorno and Timeline (in Italian) List of mayors of Livorno History of Tuscany
Other cities in the macroregion of Central Italy:(it) Timeline of Ancona, Marche region Timeline of Arezzo, Tuscany region Timeline of Florence, Tuscany Timeline of Grosseto, Tuscany Timeline of Lucca, Tuscany Timeline of Perugia, Umbria region Timeline of Pisa, Tuscany Timeline of Pistoia, Tuscany Timeline of Prato, Tuscany Timeline of Rome, Lazio region Timeline of Siena, Tuscany
References
This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
in Italian
1842- P. Volpi, Guida del Forestiere per la città e contorni di Livorno, 1846.
P. Vigo, Livorno. Aspetti storici-artistici, Bergamo 1915.
G. Nudi. Storia urbanistica di Livorno: Dalle origini al secolo XVI (Venice, 1959) L. Bortolotti. Livorno dal 1748 al 1958: Profilo storico-urbanistico (Florence, 1970) A. Melosi, Resistenza, dopoguerra e ricostruzione a Livorno. 1944/48, S. Giovanni in Persiceto (Bo) 1984.
A. Santini, 400 anni di Livorno, Pisa 2006. A. Prosperi (a cura di), Livorno 1606–1806. Luogo di incontro tra popoli e culture, Torino, Allemandi, 2009.
External links
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