Timeline of Brindisi

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brindisi in the Apulia region of Italy.

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Prior to 15th century

• 266 BCE – Romans in power.^[1]
• 244 BCE – Brundisium becomes a Roman colony.^[2]
• 190 BCE – Appian Way (Rome-Brundisium) built (approximate date).
• 49 BCE – The Siege of Brundisium occurs during Caesar's civil war. Caesar fails to prevent Pompey from crossing the Adriatic Sea.^[1]
• 40 BCE - The Treaty of Brundisium is signed after skirmishes between troops of Octavian and Mark Antony. The treaty places the western Roman territory in Gaul and Illyricum under Octavian influence.^[3]
• 38 BCE – "Foedus brundissinum, a brief reconciliation between Mark Antony and Octavian" takes place in Brundisium.^[1]
• 19 BCE – 21 September: Poet Virgil dies in Brundisium.^[2]
• 109 CE – Via Traiana (Beneventum-Brundisium road) built.^[1]
• 5th–6th C. CE – Roman Catholic diocese of Brindisi established.^[4]
• 7th C. CE – Lombards in power.^[1]
• 836 – Brindisi sacked by Saracens.^[5]
• 867 – Brindisi taken by forces of Louis II of Italy.^[6]
• 1071 – Normans in power.^[5]
• 1080 – Chiesa di San Benedetto (Brindisi) [it] (church) built.^[1]
• 1089 – Brindisi Cathedral [it] dedicated.^[1]
• 1192 – Fontana Tancredi [it] (fountain) installed.^[1]
• 1225 – Wedding of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella II of Jerusalem.^[1]
• 1227 – Castello svevo (Brindisi) [it] (castle) built.^[1]
• 1230 – Chiesa del Cristo (Brindisi) [it] (church) built.^[7]
• 1310 – Chiesa di Santa Maria del Casale [it] (church) built.^[7]
• 1322 – Chiesa di San Paolo eremita [it] (church) built.^[7]
• 1348 – Plague.^[5]
• 1352 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I of Hungary.^[1]
• 1383 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I, Duke of Anjou.^[1]
• 1385 – Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini in power.^[6]

15th–19th centuries

• 1456 – 1456 Central Italy earthquakes.^[8][5]
• 1496 – Venetians in power.^[1]
• 1509 – Venetian rule ends.^[1]
• 1528 – One of Brindisi's Roman columns [it] collapses.
• 1734 - Francisco José de Ovando, 1st Marquis of Brindisi captures the castle of Brindisi.
• 1743 – 1743 Salento earthquake.
• 1860
  • Brindisi becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.^[6]
  • Circondario di Brindisi [it] (provincial district) established.
• 1861 – Population: 9,137.^(it)
• 1865 – Brindisi railway station opens.
• 1866 – Adriatic railway (Lecce-Brindisi) begins operating.
• 1870
  • Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company adds Brindisi to its route.^[5]
  • Brindisi Marittima railway station opened (closed in 2006).^[5]
• 1871 – Population: 13,755.^[5]
• 1881 – Population: 16,618.^(it)
• 1886 – Taranto–Brindisi railway begins operating.
• 1892 – Indipendente newspaper begins publication.^[9]
• 1898 – Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company deletes Brindisi from its route.^[5]

20th century

• 1901 – Population: 25,317.^[5]
• 1905 – Harbour railway station built.^[5]
• 1911 – Population: 25,692.^(it)
• 1912 – F.B. Brindisi 1912 (football club) formed.
• 1916 – Idroscalo di Brindisi [it] (seaplane base) built in the Port of Brindisi.
• 1923 – Brindisi – Salento Airport built.
• 1927 – Administrative Province of Brindisi formed.^[6]
• 1931 – Monumento ai caduti della prima guerra mondiale (Brindisi) [it] (war monument) erected.
• 1933 – Monumento al Marinaio d'Italia [it] erected.^[10]
• 1934 - Brindisi Airport commercial flights start.
• 1936 – Population: 41,699.^(it)
• 1943 – September: Italian prime minister Badoglio and king Victor Emmanuel flee to Brindisi from Rome after the Armistice of Cassibile during World War II.^[11]
• 1944 – February: Administrative seat of national government relocated from Brindisi to Salerno.^[6]
• 1961 – Population: 70,657.^(it)
• 1963 – Archivio di Stato di Brindisi (state archives) established.^[12]
• 1969 – Azienda Municipalizzata Autotrasporti Brindisi [it] (transit entity) formed.
• 1979 – Quotidiano di Brindisi newspaper begins publication.^[13]
• 1991 – Population: 95,383.^(it)

21st century

• 2006 – Teatro Verdi (Brindisi) (theatre) opens.
• 2012 – 19 May: Brindisi school bombing.
• 2013 – Population: 88,611.^[14]
• 2016 – June: Local election held; Angela Carluccio becomes mayor.
• 2018 – June: Local election held; Riccardo Rossi becomes mayor.

See also

• History of Brindisi [it]
• Urban development of Brindisi [it]
• List of mayors of Brindisi
• List of bishops of Brindisi
• History of Apulia [it] region

Other cities in the macroregion of South Italy:^(it)

• Timeline of Bari, Apulia region
• Timeline of L'Aquila, Abruzzo region
• Timeline of Naples, Campania region
• Timeline of Reggio Calabria
• Timeline of Salerno, Campania
• Timeline of Taranto, Apulia