Timeline of Perugia

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Perugia in the Umbria region of Italy.

Prior to 17th century

310 BCE - Romans in power; settlement named "Perusia."^[1]
3rd century BCE - Etruscan walls [it] built.^[2]
216 and 205 BCE - Assisted Rome in the Hannibalic war.^[3]
90 BCE - Town "received Roman citizenship."^[2]
40 BCE - Perusia sacked during the Perusine War.^[3]
5th century CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Perugia established.^[4]
548 CE - Perugia besieged by forces of Ostrogoth Totila during the Gothic War (535–554).
10th century - Benedictine San Pietro abbey founded.^[2]
1139 - Perugia "recorded as a free comune."^[2]
1205 - Chiesa di San Costanzo (Perugia) [it] (church) rebuilt.^[5]
1216 - Papal election, 1216 held at Perugia.
1250 - Chiesa di San Francesco al Prato [it] (church) built (approximate date).^[2]
1264 - Papal election, 1264–65 held at Perugia.
1278 - Fontana Maggiore (fountain) erected in the Piazza Maggiore.^[2]
1285 - Papal election, 1285 held at Perugia.^[3]
1293 - Palazzo del Popolo construction begins.^[2]
1294 - Papal election, 1292–94 held at Perugia.^[3]
1304
- Papal conclave, 1304–05 held at Perugia.^[3]
- San Domenico church construction begins.^[5]
1308 - University of Perugia established.^[2]^[3]
1345 - Perugia Cathedral construction begins.^[5]
1348 - Plague.^[2]
1390 - Collegio della Mercanzia [it] (merchants' guild office) built in the Palazzo dei Priori.^[5]
1416 - Braccio da Montone in power.^[2]
1424 - Baglioni (family) in power.^[2]
1453 - Università Vecchia built on the Piazza del Sopramuro.^[2]
1457 - Collegio del Cambio (exchange guild office) built in the Palazzo dei Priori.^[5]
1461 - Oratorio di San Bernardino (Perugia) [it] facade constructed.^[6]
1475 - Printing press in operation.^[7]^[8]
1480 - Porta di San Pietro (Perugia) [it] (gate) built.^[2]
1490 - Perugia Cathedral completed.
1534 - Perugia "deprived of its privileges."^[3]
1540
- Salt War (1540).
- Porta Marzia [it] (gate) dismantled.^[3]
1543 - Rocca Paolina (fort) built.^[2]
1548 - Loggia dell'Angelo della Pace [it] built.^[2]
1561 - Accademia degli Insensati [it] founded.^[9]
1573
- Accademia del Disegno founded.^[2]
- Vincenzo Danti appointed city architect.^[2]
1587 - Perugia Cathedral consecrated.

17th-19th centuries

1623 - Biblioteca Augusta (library) opens.^[10]
1665 - Chiesa di San Filippo Neri (Perugia) [it] (church) built.^[2]
1720 - Orto Botanico dell'Università di Perugia (garden) established.^[11]
1723 - Teatro del Pavone [it] (theatre) opens.
1758 - Palazzo Antinori [it] built.^[2]
1762 - Montemorcino monastery built.^[12]
1781 - Teatro Morlacchi (theatre) opens.
1797 - Perugia was occupied by the French.^[3]
1798 - Perugia becomes part of the Trasimène (1798) [it] department of France.
1832 - Earthquake.^[3]^(it)
1838 - Earthquake.^[3]^(it)
1840 - Ancient Hypogeum of the Volumnus family rediscovered near Perugia.
1849
- Austrians in power.^[3]
- Cimitero monumentale di Perugia [it] (cemetery) established.
1854 - Earthquake.^[3]
1859 - 20 June: 1859 Perugia uprising.^[3]
1860
- Perugia becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.^[2]
- Pasticceria Sandri [it] in business.
1863 - Pinacoteca Vannucci (museum) established.^[2]
1866 - Perugia railway station opens.
1891 - Teatro Turreno [it] (theatre) opens.
1899 - Tram begins operating.

20th century

1905 - A.C. Perugia (football club) formed.
1911 - Population: 65,805.^[13]
1943 - Perugia trollebus [it] begins operating.
1944 - 20 June: Allied forces enter city.
1961 - Perugia-Assisi Peace March [it] begins.
1974 - Istituto per la storia dell'Umbria contemporanea [it] (history society) formed.
1975 - Stadio Renato Curi (stadium) opens.
1983 - Corriere dell'Umbria newspaper begins publication.^[14]
1984 - 29 April: Umbria earthquake of 1984 [it].

21st century

2007 - 1 November: Murder of Meredith Kercher.
2008 - MiniMetro automated people mover system begins operating.
2011 - Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport terminal built.
2013 - Population: 162,986.^[15]
2014 - Perugia local election [it] held; Andrea Romizi becomes mayor.

References

^ Domenico 2002.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u P. Scarpellini. "Perugia". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 10 December 2016
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Britannica 1910.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Kleinhenz 2004.
^ "Florence and Central Italy, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
^ Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
^ Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy: Perugia". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450631.
^ Bonazzi 1879.
^ Giovanni Cecchini (1978). La Biblioteca Augusta del Comune di Perugia (in Italian). Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.
^ "Garden Search: Italy". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
^ "Florence and Central Italy, 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368374.
^ "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
^ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Perusia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cur.
Margaret Symonds; Lina Duff Gordon (1898). Story of Perugia. Mediaeval towns. London: J. M. Dent. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t6833zg6v.
"Perugia", Central Italy and Rome (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1909
Ashby, Thomas (1910). "Perugia" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). pp. 278–279.
William Heywood (1910). History of Perugia. R. Langton Douglas, ed. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Perugia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t41r6xh8t
Roy Domenico (2002). "Umbria: Perugia". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 350+. ISBN 0313307334.
Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. (2004). "Perugia". Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0415939291.

in Italian

Cesare Crispolti (1658). Perugia augusta descritta (in Italian). ISBN 9788827122273.
Pellini (1664). Dell'historia di Perugia (in Italian). Venice.
Baldassarre Orsini [in Italian] (1784). Guida al forestiere per l'augusta città di Perugia (in Italian).
Serafino Siepi (1822). Descrizione topologico-istorica della città di Perugia (in Italian).
Giovan Battista Rossi Scotti (1867). Guida di Perugia (in Italian) (2nd ed.).
Luigi Bonazzi. Storia di Perugia (in Italian). 1875-1879. 2 volumes: (1) to 1495, (2) 1495-1860.
"Perugia", Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian), vol. 17 (6th ed.), Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, 1884, hdl:2027/nnc1.cu08476845
Ariodante Fabretti (ed.). Cronache della cittá di Perugia (in Italian). Turin. 1887-1892 (4 vols.)
Guida di Perugia e pianta della città (in Italian) (2nd ed.). Perugia: Tilli. 1895.
Raniero Gigliarelli [in Italian] (1907). Perugia antica e Perugia moderna: indicazioni storico-topographiche (in Italian). Perugia: Unione Tipografica Cooperativa-Editrice.

External links

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[FOOTNOTEDomenico2002-1] Domenico 2002.

[OxfordArt-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u P. Scarpellini. "Perugia". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 10 December 2016

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Britannica 1910.

[katolsk-4] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

[FOOTNOTEKleinhenz2004-5] Kleinhenz 2004.

[MMA-eustc08-6] "Florence and Central Italy, 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

[7] Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.

[8] Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy: Perugia". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450631.

[FOOTNOTEBonazzi1879-9] Bonazzi 1879.

[Cecchini1978-10] Giovanni Cecchini (1978). La Biblioteca Augusta del Comune di Perugia (in Italian). Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.

[botanic-11] "Garden Search: Italy". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

[MMA-eustc09-12] "Florence and Central Italy, 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

[13] "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368374.

[europa2003-14] "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.

[15] "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

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