Timeline of Piacenza

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Piacenza in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.

Prior to 18th century

218 BCE - Placentia becomes a Roman colony.[1]
205 BCE - Placentia besieged by Carthaginian forces of Hasdrubal.[2]
200 BCE - Town sacked by Gaulish forces.[2][1]
187 BCE - Via Aemilia (Ariminum-Placentia road) built.[1]
271 CE - The Marcomanni defeat the Aurehan outside the city walls.[1]
375 CE - Basilica of Sant'Antonino built.[1]
450 CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Piacenza established (approximate date).[3]
546 - "Totila reduced Piacenza by famine."[1]
903 - San Savino church construction begins.[1]
988 - Piacenza becomes an archbishopric.[4]
997 - Piacenza demoted to a bishopric;[1][4] Emperor Otto III removes the city from the county of Piacenza and gives it to the bishop.[5]
1005 - Bishop Siegfried moves San Savino outside the walls and rebuilds it.[6]
1107 - San Savino rebuilt in a Romanesque style.[6]
1095 - Council of Piacenza a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen.
1122 - Piacenza Cathedral construction begins.[1]
1167 - Piacenza joins the Lombard League.
1183 - Meeting of Lombard League held in Piacenza regarding the Peace of Constance.[1]
1226 - Piacenza joins renewed Lombard League.[7]
1229 - Piacenza participates in War of the Keys on the side of the pope[7] and the Battle of San Cesario on the side of Bologna.
1233 - Piacenza Cathedral construction completed.[1]
1235 - Guelph Annals of Piacenza finished.[7]
1254 - Scotti (family) in power.[8]
1278 - San Francesco church construction begins.[1]
1281 - Palazzo Comunale built.[1]
1334 - Sant'Anna church built.[1]
1400 - Public clock installed (approximate date).[9]
1447 - Piacenza taken by forces of Francesco I Sforza.[1]
1471 - Hospital built.[1]
1475 - Printing press in operation.[10]
1499 - San Sisto church construction begins.[1]
1512 - Piacenza "occupied by the papal forces."[1]
1545 - Duchy of Parma and Piacenza created under Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma.[1]
1558 - Palazzo Farnese construction begins.[1]
1620 - Statue of Ranuccio I Farnese erected in the Piazza dei Cavalli.[1]
1625 - Statue of Alexander Farnese erected in the Piazza dei Cavalli.[1]

18th-19th centuries

1738 - Austrians in power per Treaty of Vienna (1738).[11]
1746 - 16 June: Austrian-Sardinian and Franco-Spanish conflict fought near city.[8][1]
1748 - Spaniards in power.[11]
1796 - Piacenza occupied by French forces.[1]
1801 - Piacenza becomes part of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia per Treaty of Lunéville.[12]
1804 - Teatro Municipale (Piacenza) (theatre) opens.
1811 - Biblioteca Comunale Passerini-Landi (library) established.[13][14]
1821
- Political unrest.[2]
- Cimitero di Piacenza (cemetery) established.
1831 - Political unrest.[2]
1848 - 10 May: "Piacenza was the first Italian city to vote for union with Piedmont" during the Revolution of 1848.[2][12]
1859
- Piacenza–Bologna railway begins operating; Piacenza railway station opens.
- Piacenza becomes part of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia.[2]
- Circondario di Piacenza (provincial district) established.
1860 - Alessandria–Piacenza railway begins operating.
1861 - Population: 40,582.^(it)
1867 - Progresso newspaper begins publication.[15]
1883 - Libertà newspaper begins publication.[11]

20th century

1902 - Piacenza tram begins operating.
1903 - Museo Civico (museum) founded.[1]
1911 - Population: 38,542.[16]
1919 - Piacenza Football Club formed.
1920 - Stadio comunale di Piacenza (stadium) opens.
1932 - Ferrovia Piacenza-Bettola (railway) begins operating.
1933 - Piacenza–Cremona railway begins operating.
1936 - Population: 64,210.^(it)
1961 - Population: 88,541.^(it)
1969 - Stadio Leonardo Garilli (stadium) opens.
1981 - Population: 109,039.^(it)
1994 - Local election held; Giacomo Vaciago (center-left) becomes Mayor. He is the first Mayor elected by direct vote in the history of Piacenza.
1995 - Local election held; Dario Squeri (center-left) is elected President of the Province of Piacenza. He is the first President elected by direct vote in the history of Piacenza.
1998 - Local election held; the lawyer Gianguido Guidotti (center-right) becomes Mayor. He is the first Mayor of the center-right coalition elected by direct vote in the history of Piacenza. The incumbent Mayor Giacomo Vaciago is the first Mayor to not run for a second final term.
1999 - Local election held; Dario Squeri (center-left) is elected re-President of the Province of Piacenza.

21st century

2000 - La Cronaca newspaper begins publication.
2002 - Local election held; Roberto Reggi (center-left) becomes Mayor. The incumbent Mayor Gianguido Guidotti is the first Mayor to lost a run-off in the direct vote.
2004 - Local election held; Gian Luigi Boiardi (center-left) is elected President of the Province of Piacenza.
2007 - Local election held; Roberto Reggi (center-left) is re-elected Mayor. He is the first incumbent Mayor re-elected by direct vote.
2008 - Museo civico di storia naturale di Piacenza (museum) opens in the Fabbrica del Ghiaccio.[17]
2009 - Local election held; Massimo Trespidi is elected President of the Province of Piacenza. He is the first President of the center-right elected by direct vote in the history of Piacenza. The incumbent Mayor Gianluigi Boiardi is the first President to lost at the first round in the direct vote.
2012 - Local election held; Paolo Dosi (center-left) becomes Mayor.
2013
- Piacenza–Cremona railway closed.
- Population: 100,843.[18]
2017 - Local election held; the lawyer Patrizia Barbieri (center-right) becomes Mayor. She is the first female Mayor elected by direct vote in the history of Piacenza. The incumbent Mayor Paolo Dosi is the second Mayor to not run for a second final term.

References

Britannica 1910.
Domenico 2002.
"Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
Teta E. Moehs (1972), Gregorius V, 996–999: A biographical Study, Anton Hiersemann, pp. 57–58.
Piacenza entry (in Italian) by Mario Longhena, Alda Levi Spinazzola, Arturo Pettorelli, Luigi Pairig, Tammaro De Marinis and Natale Carotti in the Enciclopedia italiana (1935).
Porter 1912.
Gianluca Raccagni (2016), "The Crusade Against Frederick II: A Neglected Piece of Evidence" (PDF), The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 67 (4): 721–740, doi:10.1017/S002204691600066X, hdl:20.500.11820/254ed423-3dd5-4255-85ec-feaf8a2ad6e1.
Haydn 1910.
Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum [in German] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Italy: Piacenza". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450631.
"Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.
"Leading Libraries of the World: Italy". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 475–477.
"(Comune: Piacenza)". Anagrafe delle biblioteche italiane [Registry of Italian Libraries] (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
Berger 1899.
"Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368374 – via HathiTrust.
"MiBACT" (in Italian). Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
"Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 23 January 2017.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Portrait of Cristoforo Poggiali, 18th century historian of Piacenza

in English

William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Placentia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cur.
"Piacenza", Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy (16th ed.), London: John Murray, 1897, OCLC 2231483
"Piacenza". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. hdl:2027/njp.32101065312934.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
"Piacenza" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 558–559.
Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Placentia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t41r6xh8t
"Piacenza", Northern Italy (14th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913
Roy Domenico (2002). "Emilia Romagna: Piacenza". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 95+. ISBN 0313307334.
Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. (2004). "Piacenza". Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0415939291.
Charles M. Rosenberg, ed. (2010). Court Cities of Northern Italy: Milan, Parma, Piacenza, Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna, Urbino, Pesaro, and Rimini. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79248-6.
Porter, A. Kingsley (1912). "San Savino at Piacenza, I: History and Structure". American Journal of Archaeology. 16 (3): 350–367. doi:10.2307/497193. JSTOR 497193. S2CID 191373774.

in Italian

Cristoforo Poggiali [in Italian]. Memorie storiche della città di Piacenza. Gicopazzi. 1757-1766 (12 volumes)
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Luciano Scarabelli [in Italian] (1841). Guida ai monumenti storici ed artistici della città di Piacenza. Lodi: Wilmant e Figli.
Nuovissima guida della citta di Piacenza. Piacenza: Domenico Tagliaferri. 1842.
"Piacenza". Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian). Vol. 17 (6th ed.). Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese. 1884. hdl:2027/nnc1.cu08476845.
Carlo Lozzi (1887). "Storie de'Municipii: Piacenza". Biblioteca istorica della antica e nuova Italia (in Italian). Vol. 2. Imola. OCLC 12117233.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (bibliography)
Henry Berger, ed. (1899), "Giornali Italiani (per ordine di localita): Piacenza", Annuario della stampa italiana (in Italian), Milan{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
"Piacenza", Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) (in Italian), 1935
Piero Castignoli. Storia di Piacenza (in Italian). OCLC 25082754. circa 1980-2002 (6 volumes)
Maria Luigia Pagliani (1991). Piacenza: forma e urbanistica. Città antiche in Italia. L'Erma di Bretschneider. ISBN 978-88-7062-719-0.

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[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-1] Britannica 1910.

[FOOTNOTEDomenico2002-2] Domenico 2002.

[3] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 23 January 2017.

[Moehs-4] Teta E. Moehs (1972), Gregorius V, 996–999: A biographical Study, Anton Hiersemann, pp. 57–58.

[5] Piacenza entry (in Italian) by Mario Longhena, Alda Levi Spinazzola, Arturo Pettorelli, Luigi Pairig, Tammaro De Marinis and Natale Carotti in the Enciclopedia italiana (1935).

[FOOTNOTEPorter1912-6] Porter 1912.

[Raccagni-7] Gianluca Raccagni (2016), "The Crusade Against Frederick II: A Neglected Piece of Evidence" (PDF), The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 67 (4): 721–740, doi:10.1017/S002204691600066X, hdl:20.500.11820/254ed423-3dd5-4255-85ec-feaf8a2ad6e1.

[FOOTNOTEHaydn1910-8] Haydn 1910.

[9] Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum [in German] (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.

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

[europa2003-11] "Italy". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.

[Gilbert2007-12] Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.

[13] "Leading Libraries of the World: Italy". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 475–477.

[14] "(Comune: Piacenza)". Anagrafe delle biblioteche italiane [Registry of Italian Libraries] (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Retrieved 23 January 2017.

[FOOTNOTEBerger1899-15] Berger 1899.

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

[17] "MiBACT" (in Italian). Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo. Retrieved 24 January 2017.

[18] "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 23 January 2017.

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