Timeline of Salerno

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Salerno in the Campania region of Italy.

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Prior to 20th century

Salerno capital of Normans' southern Italy in 1100

• 197 BCE - Roman colony Salernum founded at site of former Etruscan town Irnthi.^[1](it)
• 79 CE - Salerno was buried by the rain of ash and debris of the eruption of Vesuvius that razed Pompeii and Herculaneum to the ground^[2]
• 5th-7th C. CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Salerno established.^[3]
• 646 CE - Salerno becomes part of the Lombard Duchy of Benevento.^[4]
• 774 CE - Duke Arechis II of Benevento relocates to Salerno.
• 9th C. - Schola Medica Salernitana (medical school) founded.^[4][5]
• 851 - Principality of Salerno established. List of princes of Salerno.
• 870s - Salerno besieged by Arab forces.^[6]
• 1076 - Salerno taken by forces of Norman Robert Guiscard.^[7]
• 1084 - Saint Matthew Cathedral consecrated by Pope Gregory VII.^[5]
• 1150 - University founded.^[5]
• 1194 - Salerno sacked by forces of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.^[5]
• 1260 - Port of Salerno construction begins.^[8]
• 1419 - Salerno becomes part of the Kingdom of Naples and administrative centre of its Principato Citeriore [it].^[1]
• 1578 - Salerno sacked by "Muslim pirates."^[1]
• 1656 - Plague.^[7]
• 1688 - Earthquake.^[7][9]
• 1694 - Earthquake.^[7][9]
• 1799 - Salerno becomes part of the French client Parthenopean Republic.^[7]
• 1817 - University closed.^[5]
• 1843 - Biblioteca Provinciale di Salerno [it] (library) founded.^[10]
• 1860 - Circondario di Salerno [it] (administrative region) established.
• 1866 - Naples–Salerno railway begins operating; Salerno railway station opens.
• 1872 - Teatro municipale Giuseppe Verdi (Salerno) [it] opens.
• 1875 - Frusta newspaper begins publication.^[11]
• 1895 - Salerno–Reggio Calabria railway in operation.
• 1896 - L'Eco newspaper begins publication.^[12]
• 1897 - Population: 37,310.^[13]

20th century

• 1902 - Ferrovia Salerno-Mercato San Severino [it] (railway) begins operating.
• 1911 - Population: 45,682.^[14]
• 1919 - U.S. Salernitana 1919 (football club) formed.
• 1920 - Società salernitana di storia patria [it] (history society) founded.
• 1926 - Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport established.
• 1936 - Population: 67,186.^(it)
• 1937 - Salerno trolleybus [it] begins operating.
• 1943 - 9 September: Salerno besieged by Allied forces during World War II.^[7][1]
• 1944 - Salerno is Capital of Italy for some months
  • February: Governo Badoglio I & II [it] headquartered in Salerno during the Periodo costituzionale transitorio [it].^[7]
  • April: Communist policy announcement [it] made in Salerno.^[15][1]
• 1946 - Festival del cinema di Salerno begins.
• 1954 - 25 October: Salerno flood [it].
• 1956 - Local election held; Alfonso Menna [it] becomes mayor (until 1970).
• 1961 - Population: 117,363.^(it)
• 1964 - Azienda Trasporti Autofiloviari Consorzio Salernitano [it] (transit entity) formed.
• 1968 - University of Salerno established.
• 1971 - Population: 155,498.^(it)
• 1982 - 26 August: Salerno massacre [it] occurs in the Torrione (Salerno) [it] quartiere.
• 1990 - Stadio Arechi (stadium) opens.
• 1993 - Vincenzo De Luca becomes mayor.
• 1998 - Parco del Mercatello [it] (park) opens.^[16]

21st century

• 2013
  • Salerno metropolitan railway service begins operating.
  • Population: 131,925.^[17]
• 2016 - Vincenzo Napoli becomes mayor.

See also

• History of Salerno [it]
• List of mayors of Salerno
• List of Princes of Salerno, 9th-16th centuries
• List of bishops of Salerno
• Archivio di Stato di Salerno [it] (state archives)
• Campania history (region)

Other cities in the macroregion of South Italy:^(it)

• Timeline of Bari, Apulia region
• Timeline of Brindisi, Apulia
• Timeline of L'Aquila, Abruzzo region
• Timeline of Naples, Campania region
• Timeline of Reggio Calabria
• Timeline of Taranto, Apulia

References

1. Domenico 2002.
2. "Positano: 18 luglio riapre la Villa romana sepolta dall'eruzione del 79 d.C." 9 July 2018.
3. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
4. Valentino Pace. "Salerno". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 13 January 2017
5. Britannica 1910.
6. Kleinhenz 2004.
7. "Cenni storici" (in Italian). Comune di Salerno. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
8. Overall 1870.
9. Baratta 1901.
10. "(Comune: Salerno)". Anagrafe delle biblioteche italiane [Registry of Italian Libraries] (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
11. "Giornali e giornalisti", Almanacco Italiano (in Italian), Florence: R. Bemporad & figlio, 1896, pp. 431+ (List of newspapers)
12. Henry Berger, ed. (1899), "Giornali Italiani (per ordine di localita): Salerno", Annuario della stampa italiana (in Italian), Milan
13. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590550 – via HathiTrust.
14. "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368374.
15. Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.
16. "Parchi e Giardini" (in Italian). Comune di Salerno. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
17. "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 13 January 2017.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

See also: Salerno § Bibliography

in English

• William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Salerno". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949.
• William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Salernum". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cur.
• Ashby, Thomas (1910). "Salerno" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). p. 66.
• "Salerno", Southern Italy and Sicily (16th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912
• Roy Domenico (2002). "Campania: Salerno". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 72+. ISBN 0313307334.
• Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. (2004). "Salerno". Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0415939291.

in Italian

• "Salerno", Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian), vol. 19 (6th ed.), 1885
• Mario Baratta [in Italian] (1901). "Distribuzione topografica dei terremoti italiani: Salernitano e Basilicata: Salerno". I terremoti d'Italia [Earthquakes in Italy] (in Italian). Turin: Fratelli Bocca. (also includes chronology)
• "Salerno", Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) (in Italian), 1936

External links

• "Archivio storico municipale" (in Italian). Comune di Salerno. (city archives)
• Items related to Salerno, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Salerno, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)