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May - first troubles with the workers as news of the Russian Revolution reach Italy.
May 22 - first air-mail experiment between Turin and Rome
July - SNIA (textiles) founded
August 23 - Guardia Regia (Royal Guard) and rioting workers clash: 60 dead, 250 injuried, Turin is officially declared under martial law.
November - refugees fleeing the Caporetto disaster hit the city. Bread is rationed.
February - a priest is killed and dismembered
October - Spanis Influenza Epidemics; during the acme phase, in Turin 400 die daily.
Founded the "Istituto professionale di stato per l'arte bianca e l'industria dolciaria" (confectionery academy)
Janury the 6th - Woodrow Wilson, during his visit, meets the crowd in Piazza San Carlo under a downpour of cold rain.
March 15-25 - the 1500 Turin 'Sartine' (dressmakers, a local mainstay) go on strike
March 26 - the first 'Fasci di Combattimento Torinesi' are born.
'La Specola', a small observatory built on top of a royal building in the centre of town is demolished.
nationwide strike campaign - about 150 factories in Turin are occupied, and 120.000 workers cross their arms.
Fights between fascist and communist militants
March-September - the war between unions and corporations progresses with strikes and blocks.
Under the supervision of MatteoTrucco, the works begin on the FIAT factory of Lingotto
May the 7th - the first automatic switchboard in Italy is up and running in Turin
October 28th - Marcia su Roma; the Fascist coup has no immediate effects in Turin
Autumn - the Divine Sarah Bernard is in Turin at the Teatro carignano with the play "Daniel"; it's her last public performance.
"Strage di Torino" (The Turin Slaughter): fascist bands lead by DeVecchi raid various Turin public places, set fire to the Camera del Lavoro (trades union house) and kill about twenty 'subversives'. Investigations lead nowhere.
March 23 - Sarah Bernard dies: her fans place a chair and a bunch of roses in front of Teatro Carignano
May 12 - The King opens the Lingotto factory complex.
July the 8th - the city stadium hosts a bullfight
The project for a highway connecting Turin and Milan is approved
Giovanni Agnelli (founder of FIAT) becomes lifetime senator.
The "passaggio delle blatte" (lit. "cocroaches passage") connecting Piazza Castello to the Royal Gardens in the center of town is opened; on the same square is placed the monument dedicated to the Italian Cavalry.
Piero Gobetti founds the "Gruppi di Rivoluzione Liberale" (Liberal Revolution Groups) opens the independent newspaper "Il Baretti"
December the 7th - Rotary Club Turin founded
January - Leopold Fleischmann, cocaine pusher, is killed in the Turin Hills
July the 5th - the Genoa/Bologna football match, played on neutral field in Turin for security reasons ends on a 0/0; in Porta Nuova station the supporters engage in a gunfight.
September 20 - Remembrance Park in the Turin Hills is opened.
September 23 - Mafalda di Savoia marries Filippo d'Assia in Racconigi, just outside Turin
October the 2nd - found in the Crocetta neighborhood the first of the three parcels containing the body of Erina Barbero
Riccardo Gualino creates the "Teatro di Torino"
Toscanini directs the premiere of Boito's "Nerone" at the Teatro Regio.
January the 4th - Margherita di Savoia, first Queen of Italy, dies
April the First - inaugurated the first italian airline, connecting Turin and Trieste.
Agnelli buys the Turin newspaper "La Stampa"
Piero Gobetti dies in Paris
Antonio Gramsci arrested
October 13 - Toscanini is again directing at the Regio
October 17 - the new Turin Stadium is opened.
February the 6th - both the Milan paper "La Domenica del Corriere" end the Turin-based "L'Illustrazione del Popolo" publish a photo of the "Smemorato di Collegno" (the Collegno Amnesiac).
March the 6th - the Bruneri-Canella case explodes.
First "Fiera del Libro di Torino" (Turin Book Fair)
Because of a scantly clad figure (representing Truth or, according to other fonts, Electricity) the statue dedicated to scientist Galileo Ferraris is moved from the central Piazza Castello to an obscure point along Corso Galileo Ferraris.
First nationwide radio broadcast experiments in Turin
"Grande Esposizione Internazionale Industriale ed Agricola" (Great International Industry and Agriculture Show)
Opened the Cuneo - Nizza railway in Valle Roja (100 km - works began in 1888), connecting Italy and France
February 14 - Egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli dies
April 21 - the "Fontana Angelica" in Piazza Solferino opened, causing scandal with the conservatives (because of its statuesque nude seasons) and turmoil among occultists (because of its supposed mystical and alchemical meanings)
May the First - "Giuseppe Verdi" school of music opened
May 24 - the "Faro della Vittoria" (Victory Beacon) begins his service on the Maddalena hill dominatin Turin
June the 4th - the Tribunale Speciale sentences Antonio Gramsci to 20 years of detention
December 29 - national broadcast begins regularly from Turin
Via Arsenale 21 is the official seat of EIAR (Ente Italiano Audizioni Radiofoniche)
First collective exhibition of the paintings by the "Sei di Torino" group
September 21 - first flight on the new line Torino-Milano-Roma
Torino-Milano Highway works begin
February 16 - the Casa Littoria (Fascist party-seat/social-center) in via Carlo Alberto
August 19 - Rosa Vercesi kills Vittoria Nicolotti.
November 30 - Primo Carnera, il Gigante Buono (the Gentle Giant) knocks out Uzcudum in a match in Barcellona
The Arch at the end of the park Valentino inaugurated.
Public display of the Turin Holy Shroud on the occasion of the Royal newlyweds visit.
January 19 - Turin-based businnesman Riccardo Gualini (motion pictures, publishing) is accused of a not better determined 'economic misbehaviour' and sent to Lipari in political confinement
February the 7th - "Se via Roma se ne va, è ora di comprare" (If Via Roma goes, it's time to buy"); the shops in Via Roma start a monumental sale waiting for the "modernization" to begin. Many shops move to "Le baracche" (the shacks), a series of light structures in Piazza San carlo.
March 23 - the Vercesi trial begins, the first in Turin without a popular jury.
August the 2nd - the Ceresole Reale power plant opened.
Works of 'modernization' of Via Roma (the main road in central Turin) begin.
Oath of faith to the Fascist Party imposed to University teachers; in Turin, the only ones to refuse are Ruffini (Law), Rostagni (Literature), Geymonat (Philosophy) e Levi (Biology)
Benito Mussolini visits Turin
The Fiat 508, re-named on official orders "Balilla" (from the name of a popular hero and Fascist icon), hits the market
April 30 - death of Giuseppe Peano, matematician
August 17 - fruit markets moved to the newly cleared Piazza Balilla.
October 23 - first experiments in television in Turin
October 25 - Torino-Milano Highway opened
Another public display of the Holy Shroud of Turin.
March - the Valentino Park Lake is filled and turned into a cross-country course for the "Società Ippica Torinese"
April - First Fashion fair in Turin
May 14 - the Stadio Mussolini (vill become Stadio Comunale di Torino) opened
September 24 - public exhibition of the Sindone (The Holy Shroud)
September 28 - experimental "Radio-Cinema" broadcasts from EIAR in Turin.
With "Aria di Paese", Turin-based comedian Erminio Macario starts his motion picture carreer
October 28 - the first tract of the new Via Roma, from Piazza Castello to Piazza S.Carlo is opened
November 15 - Einaudi publishing company starts its activity.
December 14 - Bocca, publisher in Turin since 1775, closes its activity.
Celebrations in all Piedmont for the sanctification of Giovanni Bosco
The Superga cableway is dismantled, and replaced by a tramway
The Torre Littoria in via Viotti, a red-brick attempt at a skyscraper is opened; it's the highest building in town (87m) and it is soon nicknamed "L'Obrobrio" (The Abomination) by the larget part of the population.
At the Teatro Chiarella, show by Louis Armstrong
1000 are killed by the fall of a dam near Turin.
Writer Cesare Pavese sent on political confinement in Brancaleone Calabro (southern Italy)
July 14 - Edoardo Agnelli, son of senator G. Agnelli, killed in a plane-crash.
The Fascist Regime is hungry for iron: all iron fences are dismantled, starting with the one in Piazza Carlo Felice; the iron roofing of Porta Nuova station goes the same way.
February 9 - 0.45 a.m., the Teatro Regio is burned down completely (it will be rebuilt only in 1973)
The Fiat 500, soon nicknamed "Topolino" (the Italian name of Mickey Mouse) hits the market
February 27 & 28 - trial of the anti-fascist Turin group including Bobbio, Ginzburg, Mila e Pavese.
September 10 - the Torino-Roma direct flight starts service, connecting the two towns in 90 minutes
Antonio Gramsci dies in Rome
June - repair works on the road to the Monte dei Cappuccini (on the south side of the river Po) uncover a burial ground with hundreds of human skeletons. The origin of the carnage is unknown, but it is supposedly connected with the military operations in the XVII century.
October 31 - works in Via Roma completed
The FIAT industrial complex in Mirafiori opened
September the 8th - Museo del Risorgimento opened
January 14 - death of Giacomo Grosso (b. 1860), painter, whose "La Cella delle Pazze" ("The Madwomen's Cell") caused a stir in 1884 being `too realistic'; other controversial painings by Grosso cover darker themes, including necrophily.
October - the Race Laws cause the dismissal from University Teaching of 10 teachers in Turin.
September 18 1838 - the body of Enrico Odeboto, wizard, is found in the man's home in Vicolo Tre Galline. Odeboto has been strangled with a tight, thin rope of unknown provenance.
Winter 1888 - While Jack the Ripper stalks London, three murders duplicating the ones in England are committed in Turin. Investigations turn out nothing.
February 12 1902 - "Il Mostro dai piedi di fauno" (The Monster with goat feet) alias "il Mostro della Consolata" (from the name of the road in which the murders are committed) lures in the basement of Via della Consolata the young Veronica Zucca, and kills her with 16 knife-wounds. Inquiries lead to the arrest of a manservant, later released upon proving his innocence.
May 1903 - the Monster scare starts again with the disappearence of Teresina Demaria, later found badly injuried in the same basement complex where Veronica Zucca was found. The culprit is Giovanni Gioli, dustman, is arrested but, given extenuating circumstances, is sentenced with 25 years and 2 months of detention.
1918 - Hotel France, found the body of a dead soldier.
February 1918 - Don G. Gnavi, priest, killed and dismembered in Via S.Filippo (later to become Via Maria Vittoria)
January 1925 - Leopold Fleischmann, originally from Austria, cocaine pusher, killed in the so called "Stra dji mort" (Dead Men Street), in the Turin Hills
September 30 1925 - Erina Barbero, alias "La Bela Rinin" (Pretty Rinin), 27 years, prostitute, is killed by her usband and pimp Francesco Cattaneo as she was a witness of the Fleischmann murder. Her body is sawn in various pieces, placed in three parcels and scattered all around the town.
March 10 1926 - an unknown male that says he can't remember his name is arrested with the charge of stealing in the Turin cemetery, and placed in the Collegno sanitorium. Thus begins the case of the "Smemorato di Collegno" (the Colegno Amnesiac), that will impassion the Italian public opinion in the following years.
August 19 1930 - Rosa Vercesi, having been dosed with cocaine "with the purpose of seduction" by Vittoria Nicolotti, suffers from a psichothic chrisis and kills her friend in a raptus. The fascist authority covers up the real motives of the crime to avoid a scandal: now, Rosa Vercesi officially killed Vittoria Nicolotti to steal her money and jewels. The woman is sentenced to lifetime detention after the first homicide trial in Turin under fascist law.
[after 1930, the news were completely sanitized by the censure and little of interest emerges]
[(C) 1998 by Davide Mana.]
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