1924 in Italy

Events in the year 1924 in the Kingdom of Italy.

← 1923 1922 1921 1924 in Italy → 1925 1926 1927
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Incumbents

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

Events

The Italian Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway" in the 1950s; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and the Autostrada A9), the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world^[1][2]

• 27 January – Treaty of Rome (1924)^[3]
• 6 April – Italian general election, 1924
• 21 September – Inauguration of the Autostrada dei Laghi, the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world.^[1][2]
• 6 October – 1-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services

Sport

• 25 January to 5 February – Italy participated at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, with 23 competitors in 4 sports
• 4 May to 27 July – Italy participated at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Paris, with 200 competitors in 18 sports, winning a total of 16 medals (8 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze)

Unknown

• – The Benito Mussolini government pass a law in 1924 requiring that every school display a Crucifix.^[4][5]

Births

Ignazio Colnaghi in 1959

• 9 January – Walkiria Terradura, anti-fascist partisan (d. 2023)^[6]
• 29 January – Luigi Nono, composer (d. 1990)^[7]
• 2 February – Ignazio Colnaghi, actor (d. 2017)^[8]
• 8 March – Walter Chiari, actor (d. 1991)
• 23 April – Rossana Rossanda, politician and journalist (d. 2020)
• 30 June – Maino Neri, footballer (d. 1995)
• 9 July – Domenico Pace, fencer (d. 2022)
• 13 July - Carlo Bergonzi, operatic tenor (d. 2014)
• 4 August – Antonio Maccanico, Italian constitutional specialist, social liberal politician (d. 2013)
• 12 August – Lucy Salani, political activist (d. 2023)^[9]
• 25 August – Sergio Bergonzelli, director, screenwriter, producer and actor (d. 2002)
• 19 September – Rosario Mazzola, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
• 8 November – Gino Scarpa, painter, printmaker and sculptor^[10] (d. 2022)
• 18 December – Alberto Ablondi, bishop (d. 2010)

Deaths

Eleonora Duse

• 8 April – Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, general, known for the Bava Beccaris massacre (b. 1831)
• 10 June – Giacomo Matteotti, politician (b. 1885)
• 17 July – Ricciotti Garibaldi, soldier (b. 1847)

Full date missing

• Tito Conti, painter (b. 1842)^[11]
• Francesco Franceschi, horticulturist (b. 1843)