Timeline of Brindisi

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brindisi in the Apulia region of Italy.

Prior to 15th century

• 266 BCE – Romans in power.
• 244 BCE – Brundisium becomes a Roman colony.
• 190 BCE – Appian Way (Rome-Brundisium) built (approximate date).
• 49 BCE – The Siege of Brundisium occurs during Caesar's civil war. Caesar fails to prevent Pompey from crossing the Adriatic Sea.
• 40 BCE - The Treaty of Brundisium is signed after skirmishes between troops of Octavian and Mark Antony. The treaty places the western Roman territory in Gaul and Illyricum under Octavian influence.
• 38 BCE – "Foedus brundissinum, a brief reconciliation between Mark Antony and Octavian" takes place in Brundisium.
• 19 BCE – 21 September: Poet Virgil dies in Brundisium.
• 109 CE – Via Traiana (Beneventum-Brundisium road) built.
• 5th–6th C. CE – Roman Catholic diocese of Brindisi established.
• 7th C. CE – Lombards in power.
• 836 – Brindisi sacked by Saracens.
• 867 – Brindisi taken by forces of Louis II of Italy.
• 1071 – Normans in power.
• 1080 – (church) built.
• 1089 – dedicated.
• 1192 – (fountain) installed.
• 1225 – Wedding of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella II of Jerusalem.
• 1227 – (castle) built.
• 1230 – (church) built.
• 1310 – (church) built.
• 1322 – (church) built.
• 1348 – Plague.
• 1352 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I of Hungary.
• 1383 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I, Duke of Anjou.
• 1385 – Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini in power.

15th–19th centuries

• 1456 – 1456 Central Italy earthquakes.
• 1496 – Venetians in power.
• 1509 – Venetian rule ends.
• 1528 – One of Brindisi's collapses.
• 1734 - Francisco José de Ovando, 1st Marquis of Brindisi captures the castle of Brindisi.
• 1743 – 1743 Salento earthquake.
• 1860
• Brindisi becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.
• (provincial district) established.
• 1861 – Population: 9,137.⁽⁾
• 1865 – Brindisi railway station opens.
• 1866 – Adriatic railway (Lecce-Brindisi) begins operating.
• 1870
• Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company adds Brindisi to its route.
• Brindisi Marittima railway station opened (closed in 2006).
• 1871 – Population: 13,755.
• 1881 – Population: 16,618.⁽⁾
• 1886 – Taranto–Brindisi railway begins operating.
• 1892 – Indipendente newspaper begins publication.
• 1898 – Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company deletes Brindisi from its route.

20th century

• 1901 – Population: 25,317.
• 1905 – Harbour railway station built.
• 1911 – Population: 25,692.⁽⁾
• 1912 – F.B. Brindisi 1912 (football club) formed.
• 1916 – (seaplane base) built in the Port of Brindisi.
• 1923 – Brindisi – Salento Airport built.
• 1927 – Administrative Province of Brindisi formed.
• 1931 – (war monument) erected.
• 1933 – erected.
• 1934 - Brindisi Airport commercial flights start.
• 1936 – Population: 41,699.⁽⁾
• 1943 – September: Italian prime minister Badoglio and king Victor Emmanuel flee to Brindisi from Rome after the Armistice of Cassibile during World War II.
• 1944 – February: Administrative seat of national government relocated from Brindisi to Salerno.
• 1961 – Population: 70,657.⁽⁾
• 1963 – Archivio di Stato di Brindisi (state archives) established.
• 1969 – (transit entity) formed.
• 1979 – Quotidiano di Brindisi newspaper begins publication.
• 1991 – Population: 95,383.⁽⁾

21st century

• 2006 – Teatro Verdi (Brindisi) (theatre) opens.
• 2012 – 19 May: Brindisi school bombing.
• 2013 – Population: 88,611.
• 2016 – June: Local election held; Angela Carluccio becomes mayor.
• 2018 – June: Local election held; Riccardo Rossi becomes mayor.

See also

• List of mayors of Brindisi
• List of bishops of Brindisi
• region

Other cities in the macroregion of South Italy:⁽⁾

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

References

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

in Italian

• A. Della Monaca. Memoria historica dell’antichissima e fedelissima città di Brindisi (Lecce 1674)
• A. De Leo. Dell’antichissima città di Brindisi e suo celebre porto (Naples, 1846)
• F. Ascoli. La storia di Brindisi (Rimini 1886)
• circa 1900?
• R. Alaggio. Brindisi medievale. Natura, Santi e Sovrani in una città di frontiera (Naples, 2009)

External links

• Items related to Brindisi, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Brindisi, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)