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1907 in Italy

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1907
in
Italy

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Events from the year 1907 in Italy.

Kingdom of Italy

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Events

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In 1907, the Banco di Roma founds a branch in Tripoli and builds significant interests in banking, shipping and agriculture. The bank has powerful connections; the president Ernesto Pacelli is the uncle of the future Pope Pius XII, and the vice-president is Romolo Tittoni, the brother of Tommaso Tittoni, Italy's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister several times between 1903 and 1909. The bank also financed the important newspaper Corriere d'Italia that would campaign for the Italo-Turkish War in 1911.[1]
Emigration out of Italy is expected to reach 1 million, mainly to the United States. Minimum wages in the US are five times higher than in Italy and remittances are an important source of income.[2]

January

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Maria Montessori
  • January 6 – Education reformer Maria Montessori opens her first Casa dei Bambini, or Children's House, in Rome.

April

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  • April 28 – The vulcano on the island of Stromboli is erupting large quantities of ash, damaging vineyards in Calabria and Sicily.[3]

June

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  • June 22 – Bakers declare a general strike throughout the whole of Italy after the government postponed consideration of a bill prohibiting night work.[4]

July

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  • July 15 – Former Minister of Public Instruction, Nunzio Nasi, is imprisoned on charges of embezzling USD 300,000.[5]
  • July 21 – Hundreds are wounded in Palermo (Sicily) in a clash between crowds and the police at a demonstration in favour of Nunzio Nasi, former Minister of Public Instruction, charged with embezzlement.[6]

August

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Borghese (left) and Barzini (right) in the 1907 Peking to Paris race

October

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  • October 23 – A magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes Calabria, at a depth of 33.0 km. The event caused 167 deaths and major damage. The town Ferruzzano was the epicentre where many houses collapsed almost completely, and 158 persons, or 8% of its population, were killed.[7]

November

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Sports

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References

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  1. ^ Clark, Modern Italy: 1871 to the present, pp. 184-85
  2. ^ How Italy Would Keep Its Citizens; Bill to Facilitate Resumption of Original Status by Returned Emigrants, The New York Times, May 26, 1907
  3. ^ Stromboli Very Violent; Ashes and Cinders Damage Vineyard In Italy and Sicily, The New York Times, April 29, 1907
  4. ^ Bakers To Strike In Italy; To Quit Work All Over the Country -- Want No Night Labor, The New York Times, June 23, 1907
  5. ^ Ex-Minister Nasi In Jail, The New York Times, July 16, 1907
  6. ^ Sicilian Rioters Shot; Hundreds Wounded In Palermo -Demonstration on Behalf of Nasi, The New York Times, July 22, 1907
  7. ^ "Significant Earthquake: 1907-10-23 Italy". National Geophysical Data Center. March 4, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  8. ^ Rome Exchange Closes; Financial Difficulties in United States Keenly Felt in Italy, The New York Times, November 12, 1907
  9. ^ Calabria Shaken Again, The New York Times, November 19, 1907
  10. ^ Jew To Be Mayor of Rome; Outcome of Anti-Clerical Victory In Recent Election, The New York Times, November 22, 1907