Gabriele D'Annunzio
1863–1938 · Person
Italy's poet-warlord: decadent novelist, war hero and demagogue who seized Fiume in 1919 and ruled it as a proto-fascist theatre-state. Mussolini borrowed the balcony speeches, the black shirts and the Roman salute.
On these timelines: Italy (post-476 CE), Master, People, Arts and Thoughts
More from Italy (post-476 CE)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Kingdom of Italy proclaimed (1861)
- Galileo's telescope and Sidereus Nuncius (1610)
- Benito Mussolini (1883)
- Mussolini's rule of Italy (1922)
- Galileo's trial by the Inquisition (1633)
- Italian Republic founded (1946)
- Italy enters WW1 on Entente side (1915)
Around 1863
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Crimean War (1853)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)