1899 in Italy

See also: 1898 in Italy, other events of 1899, 1900 in Italy.

Events from the year 1899 in Italy.

Events

• February – A coercion bill is introduced by the government of Luigi Pelloux and adopted by Parliament. The law made strikes by state employees illegal; gave the executive wider powers to ban public meetings and dissolve subversive organisations; revived the penalties of banishment; and preventive arrest for political offences, and; tightened control of the press by making authors responsible for their articles and declaring incitement to violence a crime.^[1]
• May – Prime Minister Pelloux resigned over his Chinese policy but formed a new government, the most decisively conservative since 1876.^[1]
• July 11 – The automobile manufacturer Fiat is established in Turin by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli. The company would become the major car making industry of Italy. The first Fiat plant opened in 1900 with 35 staff making 24 cars.
• December 16 – Soccer club A.C. Milan is founded in Milan by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others.^[2][3]

Births

• January 1 – Randolfo Pacciardi, Italian politician, a member of the Italian Republican Party (PRI) (died 1991)
• January 23 – Carlo Betocchi, Italian writer (died 1986)
• March 8 – Giuseppe Bastianini, Italian Fascist politician and diplomat (died 1961)
• March 11 – Carlo Tamberlani, Italian film actor (died 1980)
• May 16 – Luigi Fenaroli, Italian botanist and agronomist (died 1980)
• August 20 – Tullio Cianetti, Italian Fascist politician (died 1976)
• August 30 – Domenico Pellegrini Giampietro, Italian Fascist academic, economist, and politician (died 1970)
• September 2 – Francesco Fausto Nitti, Italian journalist and fighter against Fascism (died 1974)
• September 28 – Achille Campanile, Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic (died 1977)
• September 29 – Ferruccio Ghinaglia, Italian Marxist revolutionary (died 1921)
• November 10 – Pietro Caruso, Italian Fascist and head of the Italian police during the final part of World War II who organised the massacre in Fosse Ardeatine (died 1944)
• November 16 – Carlo Rosselli, Italian political leader, journalist, historian and anti-Fascist activist (died 1937)
• December 18 – Antonio Ligabue, Italian painter (died 1965)
• December 23 – Aldo Capitini, Italian philosopher, poet, political activist, anti-Fascist and educator (died 1968)

Deaths

• January 15 – Serafino Dubois, Italian chess player (born 1817)
• May 8 – Giacomo Naretti, Italian architect (born 1831)
• May 20 – Carlotta Grisi, Italian ballet dancer (born 1819)
• September 28 – Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (born 1858)
• November 17 – Achille Costa, Italian entomologist (born 1823)
• November 28 – Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Italian aristocrat, better known as La Castiglione, who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France (born 1837)
• December 23 – Marietta Piccolomini, Italian soprano (born 1834)

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