1923 in Italy

Events from the year 1923 in Italy.

← 1922 1921 1920 1923 in Italy → 1924 1925 1926
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Enzo Ferrari, Nicola Romeo, and Giorgio Rimini at Monza, possibly in 1923

Incumbents

• King – Victor Emmanuel III
• Prime Minister – Benito Mussolini

Events

• 28 March – Regia Aeronautica, the air force of Italy, is founded.^[1]
• 18 June – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless
• 18 November – The Acerbo Law goes into effect giving Mussolini's fascist party a majority of deputies. The law was used only in the 1924 general election, which was the last competitive election held in Italy until 1946.
• 1 December – In Italy, the Gleno Dam on the Gleno River, in the Valle di Scalve in the northern province of Bergamo bursts, killing at least 356 people^[2]

Births

• 1 January – Valentina Cortese, actress
• 10 February – Cesare Siepi, opera singer
• 12 February – Franco Zeffirelli, filmmaker
• 7 June – Giorgio Belladonna, bridge player
• 15 October – Italo Calvino, writer and journalist

Deaths

• 19 August – Vilfredo Pareto, polymath (b. 1848)

See also

• 1923 in Italian television
• List of Italian films of 1923