Gran Sasso raid
1943 · Event
German glider troops land at a mountain hotel in the Abruzzo and free the imprisoned Mussolini without a shot fired.
On these timelines: Italy (post-476 CE), World War II, Master
More from Italy (post-476 CE)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Benito Mussolini (1883)
- Kingdom of Italy proclaimed (1861)
- Mussolini's rule of Italy (1922)
- Galileo's telescope and Sidereus Nuncius (1610)
- Galileo's trial by the Inquisition (1633)
- Italian Republic founded (1946)
- Italy enters WW1 on Entente side (1915)
Around 1943
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)