1901 in Italy

See also: 1900 in Italy, other events of 1901, 1902 in Italy.

Events from the year 1901 in Italy.

Kingdom of Italy

• Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)
• Prime Minister -
  1. Giuseppe Saracco (1900–1901)
  2. Giuseppe Zanardelli (1901–1903)
• Population – 32,550,000

Events

This cartoon in the satirical magazine L'Asino (The Donkey) in May 1911, described the policy of Giolitti: on the one hand, dressed in elegant suit, he reassures conservatives; on the other, with clothes less elegant, he is addressing the workers. (L'Asino, May 14, 1911)

• January 18 – Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical Graves de communi re on Christian Democracy.
• January 27 – Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi, who symbolized the country's unification movement, dies at the age of 87. He was initially buried in a private ceremony at Milan's Cimitero Monumentale. A month later, his body was moved to the crypt of the Casa di Riposo per Musicisti. On this occasion, "Va, pensiero" from Nabucco was conducted by Arturo Toscanini with a chorus of 820 singers. A huge crowd was in attendance, estimated at 300,000.
• February 15 – Prime Minister Giuseppe Saracco resigns. Giuseppe Zanardelli froms a new government with Giovanni Giolitti as Interior minister. Giolitti will dominate Italian politics until World War I, a period known as the Giolittian Era in which Italy experienced an industrial expansion, the rise of organised labour and the emergence of an active Catholic political movement.^[1]
• September 7 – Italy is granted a concession in Tientsin from the Chinese government after the Boxer Rebellion.

Births

• July 7 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director and leading figure in the Italian neorealism movement (d. 1974)
• August 10 – Franco Dino Rasetti, Italian scientist, who discovered key processes leading to nuclear fission with Enrico Fermi (d. 2001)
• August 29 – Oscar D'Agostino, Italian chemist and one of the Via Panisperna boys, the group of young scientists led by Enrico Fermi (d. 1975)
• August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• September 5 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician and Prime Minister (d. 1991)
• September 15 – Luigi Fantappiè, Italian mathematician (d. 1956)
• September 29 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, who created the world's first nuclear reactor (d. 1954)

Deaths

• January 27 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
• April 8 – Giulio Bizzozero, Italian doctor and medical researcher (b. 1846)
• April 25 – Michele Coppino, Italian politician (b. 1822)
• August 11 – Francesco Crispi, Italian statesman (b. 1818)

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