Verdi's Rigoletto premieres
1851 · Work
Tragic opera with the aria 'La donna e mobile'.
On these timelines: Italy (post-476 CE), Arts and Thoughts, Master
More from Italy (post-476 CE)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Galileo's telescope and Sidereus Nuncius (1610)
- Kingdom of Italy proclaimed (1861)
- Benito Mussolini (1883)
- Galileo's trial by the Inquisition (1633)
- Italian Republic founded (1946)
- Italy enters WW1 on Entente side (1915)
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- On the Origin of Species (1859)
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- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)