Timeline of Palermo

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 19th century

• 734 BC – Phoenicians found Palermo^[1]
• 415 BC – Carthaginians in power,^[2] but continue using Greek name Panormos on the city's coins.^[3]
• 276 BC – Conquered by Pyrrhus of Epirus.
• 275 BC – Carthaginian reconquest.
• 254 BC – Romans take Palermo under the Latin name Panormus.^[2]
• 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.^[4]
• 830 – August: Arabs begin siege of Palermo.
• 831 – August: Saracens (Aghlabids)^[5] in power.^[6]
• 909 – Control transfers to Fatimids, entrusted to the Khalbid family.^[5]
• c.1040 – Palermo is administered by a council.^[5]
• 1072 – Normans, led by the Hauteville,^[5] take Palermo.^[2]
• 1130 – Palermo becomes capital of the Kingdom of Sicily.^[7]
• 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 [it] active.
• 1194 – Palermo is reattached to the Hohenstaufen empire, embroiling the region in a conflict between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, later transforming into a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.^[7]
• 1265 – Sicily was integrated into the Angevin kingdom.^[7]
• 1282 –
  • 30 March: Sicilian Vespers uprising against Anjou rule.^[2]
  • 4 September: Peter III of Aragon crowned as king of Sicily in Palermo Cathedral, Palermo returns to the "Aragonese orbit".^[7]
• 1302 – The peace of Caltabelotta recognized the rule of Frederic III on the condition that upon his death Sicily be controlled by the papacy.^[8]
• 1330 – Palazzo Sclafani built.^[9]
• 1394 – University established.^[10]
• 1450 – Revolt against Alfonso the Magnanimous, confrontation in Palermo.^[8]
• 1460 – Porta Nuova (Palermo) (gate) built.^[9]
• 1477 – Printing press in operation (approximate date).^[11]
• 1487 – Spanish inquisition introduced to Palermo by Ferdinand II (V) and his wife Isabella.
• 1557 – September: Flood.^(it)
• 1584 – Fontana Pretoria (fountain) installed in the Piazza Pretoria.^[12]
• 1620 – Quattro Canti laid out.
• 1676 – 2 June: Naval Battle of Palermo occurs offshore.
• 1693 – 1693 Sicily earthquake.
• 1726 – Earthquake.^[2]
• 1734 – 2 September: Spanish conquest.
• 1735 – 3 July: Charles V crowned as king of Sicily in Palermo Cathedral.
• 1740 – Earthquake.^[2]
• 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).^[9]
• 1806 – University of Palermo established.
• 1837 – Cholera epidemic.^[13]
• 1848 – 12 January: Sicilian revolution of 1848 begins.^[14]
• 1849 – 13 May: "Neapolitans capture Palermo."^[14]
• 1860
  • 6 June: Forces of Garibaldi take Palermo.^[2]
  • Giornale di Sicilia newspaper begins publication.^[15]
• 1861
  • Teatro Garibaldi (Palermo) [it] opens.^[16]
  • Population: 199,911.
• 1866 – Anti-government unrest; crackdown.^[2][17]
• 1871 – Population: 219,938.^[18]
• 1873 – Società Siciliana per la Storia Patria [it] (history society) founded.
• 1886 – Palermo Centrale railway station opens.
• 1891 – 15 November: Esposizione Nazionale di Palermo (exhibit) opens.^[2]
• 1897
  • Teatro Massimo opens.
  • Population: 287,972.^[19]
• 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.^[20]
• 1931
  • February: Palermo flood of 1931 [it].
  • 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.^[20]
• 1957 – October: Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957.
• 1960 – Palermo Airport opens.^{[citation needed]}
• 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 [it] held.
• 1986 – Maxi Trial begins.^[21]
• 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.^[22]
• 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 [it] held.
• 2010 – UCI Palermo cinema opens.^[20]
• 2012 – Leoluca Orlando becomes mayor again.
• 2013 – Population: 654,987 city; 1,243,638 province.^[23]
• 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 [it]
• Archivio di Stato di Palermo [it] (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. "History of Palermo". www.italytravelescape.com. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
2. Haydn 1910.
3. Graham (1982), p. 186–7.
4. Nef, Annliese; Thom, Martin, eds. (2013). A companion to medieval Palermo: the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500. Brill's companions to European history. Leiden ; Boston: Brill. p. 11. ISBN 978-90-04-22392-9.
5. Nef, Annliese (2013). A companion to medieval Palermo: the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500. Brill's companions to European history. Leiden Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-22392-9.
6. Benigni 1911.
7. Nef, Annliese (2013). A companion to medieval Palermo: the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500. Brill's companions to European history. Leiden Boston: Brill. p. 2. ISBN 978-90-04-22392-9.
8. Nef, Annliese; Thom, Martin, eds. (2013). A companion to medieval Palermo: the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500. Brill's companions to European history. Leiden ; Boston: Brill. p. 3. ISBN 978-90-04-22392-9.
9. Baedeker 1912.
10. Overall 1870.
11. 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. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450631 – via HathiTrust.
12. Michael Wyatt, ed. (2014). "Timeline". Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. p. xxi+. ISBN 978-1-139-99167-4.
13. "Chronicle of Events from August 1836 to September 1837". American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge. Boston: Charles Bowen. 1838.
14. Joseph Irving (1880). Annals of Our Time...1837 to...1871. London: Macmillan and Co.
15. "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
16. "Tesori d'arte a Palermo: Teatri". Palermo Turismo (in Italian). Provincia Regionale di Palermo. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
17. Lucy Riall (1998). Sicily and the Unification of Italy: Liberal Policy and Local Power, 1859–1866. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-154261-9.
18. Hunter, Brian (1873). "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590360.
19. Hunter, Brian (1899). "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590550 – via HathiTrust.
20. "Movie Theaters in Palermo". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
21. Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2007). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.
22. "Italy Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
23. "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. 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 {{citation}}: External link in |volume= (help).
• 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. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949.
• William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Panormus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cur.
• 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., hdl:2027/njp.32101079877088
• 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, hdl:2027/uc1.b3867094
• F. Gabrieli (2007). "Palermo (Balarm)". In C. Edmund Bosworth (ed.). Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 424–425. ISBN 9789004153882.
• 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

Further information (in Italian): Bibliography of the history of Palermo ^[it]

• "Palermo". Guida generale di Sicilia e Malta: storica, artistica, commerciale (in Italian) (3rd ed.). Catania: Niccolò Giannotta [it]. 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.