Timeline of Trieste explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy.

Prior to 19th century

• 79 CE – Via Flavia (Dalmatia - Tergeste) built.
• 1203 – Captured by the Republic of Venice.
• 1320 – Trieste Cathedral built.
• 1352 – Public clock installed (approximate date).^[1]
• 1382 – Trieste becomes a Habsburg imperial free city.
• 1385 – Trieste Cathedral consecrated.
• 1680 – Castle built.
• 1682 – Church of Santa Maria Maggiore built.
• 1719 – City becomes a free port.
• 1753 – Nautical School founded.
• 1755 – Trieste Commodity Exchange established.
• 1756 – Canal Grande (Trieste) constructed.
• 1776 – Karl von Zinzendorf becomes governor of Trieste.
• 1783 – Jewish primary school opens.
• 1784 – newspaper begins publication.
• 1787 – Greek Orthodox Church of San Nicolò dei Greci built.
• 1793 – Pubblica Biblioteca Arcadica Triestina (library) established.^[2]

19th century

• 1801 – Teatro Nuovo (opera house) inaugurated.
• 1809 – Trieste ceded to the French as part of the Illyrian Provinces in the Treaty of Schönbrunn.
• 1810
  • Gabinetto di Minerva literary society founded.
  • Population: 29,908.
• 1814 – Austrians returned to power in the Treaty of Paris.
• 1828 – Catholic Diocese of Trieste-Koper established.
• 1831 – Assicurazioni Generali insurance company in business.
• 1833 – Österreichischer Lloyd shipping firm in business.
• 1835 – Schiller Society founded.
• 1839
  • Caffe degli Specchi in business.
  • Mutius von Tommasini becomes mayor.
• 1840 – Tergesteo built.
• 1842 – Civico Orto Botanico di Trieste (garden)^[3] and Savings Bank of Trieste established.
• 1846 – Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste (museum) established.
• 1848
  • May to Aug − Harbour blockaded by an Italian fleet.
  • 25 October: Premiere of Verdi's opera Il corsaro.
• 1849 – Trieste becomes a Habsburg imperial free city again.
• 1851 – Trieste Astronomical Observatory established.
• 1853 – Trieste Chamber of Commerce and Industry established.
• 1857
  • Austrian Southern Railway (Vienna-Trieste) begins operating.
  • Trieste Centrale railway station opens.
  • Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipbuilding firm in business near city.
• 1860 – Miramare Castle built near city for Austrian archduke Maximilian.
• 1871 – Richard Burton becomes British consul in Trieste.
• 1872 – Revoltella Museum founded.
• 1878 – Politeama Rossetti theatre built.
• 1880 – Population: 144,844.
• 1881 – newspaper begins publication.^[4]
• 1882
  • September: Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph I visits city.
  • Agricultural exhibition held.
• 1883 – Harbour constructed.
• 1885 – Saint Spyridon Church building inaugurated.
• 1887 – Trieste–Hrpelje railway begins operating.
• 1888 - Monument erected to commemorate 500th anniversary of connexion with Austria.
• 1891 – City ended being a free port.
• 1899 – Circolo di Studi Sociali (civic group) founded.
• 1900 – Population: 132,879.

20th century

• 1902 – Trieste–Opicina tramway begins operating.
• 1904 – Trieste National Hall opens.
• 1905 – Coffee exchange established.
• 1906 − Opening of the Karawanks Tunnel (railway) completed the railway from Trieste to Klagenfurt.
• 1912
  • Synagogue of Trieste completed.
  • Circolo Sportivo Ponziana (football club) formed.
  • Savoia Excelsior Palace hotel in business.
• 1914 – Caffè San Marco in business.
• 1918
  • Unione Triestina football club formed.
  • La Nazione newspaper begins publication.
  • Umana literary journal begins publication.
• 1919 – Trieste becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy per Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.^[5]
• 1920 – 13 July: Trieste National Hall burnt by Fascist Blackshirts.
• 1924 – University of Trieste and Rotary Club established.
• 1927 – Vittoria Lighthouse built.
• 1930 – Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico shipbuilding firm in business.
• 1931 – Radio Trst begins broadcasting.
• 1932 – Stadio Littorio opens.
• 1943
  • September: Nazi German Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral headquartered in Trieste.
  • September: City becomes part of the Italian Social Republic.
  • Risiera di San Sabba Nazi concentration camp established near city.
• 1945
  • 1 May: City taken by Yugoslav forces.
  • 2 May: German surrender to Allied forces.
  • Slovene-language newspaper begins publication.
• 1947 – 15 September: City becomes part of the Free Territory of Trieste of the United Nations Security Council.
• 1949
  • June: Municipal election held.
  • Gianni Bartoli becomes mayor.
  • Museo Sartorio opens.
• 1953 – Administration of Free Territory of Trieste passes to Italy.
• 1954 – Some of Trieste becomes part of Italy; the remainder becomes part of Yugoslavia.^[6]
• 1958 – Mario Franzil becomes mayor.
• 1961 – Trieste Airport in operation.
• 1963 – Orto Botanico dell'Università di Trieste (garden) established.
• 1964 – International Centre for Theoretical Physics headquartered near city.
• 1965 – Temple of Monte Grisa (church) built near city.
• 1970 – City becomes capital of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region (approximate date).
• 1975 – Protest against Treaty of Osimo.^[7]
• 1978 – International School for Advanced Studies established.
• 1992 – Stadio Nereo Rocco opens.
• 1993
  • Riccardo Illy becomes mayor.
  • Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste research centre established near city.
• 1996 – Central European Initiative headquartered in Trieste.

21st century

• 2001 – Roberto Dipiazza becomes mayor.
• 2006 – Italia Marittima shipping firm active.
• 2011
  • Roberto Cosolini becomes mayor.^[8]
  • Population: 205,535.

See also

• History of Trieste (it)
• Other names of Trieste
• List of presidents of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region since 1960s
• List of mayors of Trieste

Timelines of other cities in the macroregion of Northeast Italy:^(it)

• Emilia-Romagna region: Timeline of Bologna; Ferrara; Forlì; Modena; Parma; Piacenza; Ravenna; Reggio Emilia; Rimini
• Trentino-South Tyrol region: Timeline of Bolzano; Trento
• Veneto region: Timeline of Padua; Treviso; Venice; Verona; Vicenza

References

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia and Italian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• • Book: Girolamo Agapito . Compiuta e distresa descrizione della fedelissima città e porto-franco di Trieste . Description of the City and Free Port of Trieste . 1824. Antonio Strauss . Vienna . it. .
• Book: Edinburgh Encyclopaedia . David Brewster . David Brewster . Philadelphia . Joseph and Edward Parker . 1832 . Trieste . Edinburgh Encyclopaedia . 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3dz0hq2k .
  • Book: Giovannina Bandelli . Notizie storiche di Trieste e guida per la città . History of Trieste and Guide to the City . 1851. Coen . it .
• * Book: Geography . 4 . . Charles Knight . London . 1866 . Bradbury, Evans, & Co. . Trieste . 2027/nyp.33433000064810 .
  • • • Book: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . William Smith . William Smith (lexicographer) . London . John Murray . 1854 . 1872. Tergeste . . Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . 2027/hvd.ah5cur .
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  • • • • Book: Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana . it . Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese . Torino . 1887 . 6th . Trieste . https://books.google.com/books?id=O05IAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA681 .

Published in the 20th century

• Book: Chambers's Encyclopaedia . London . https://archive.org/stream/chambersencyclop10lond#page/292/mode/1up . Trieste . 1901. . Chambers's Encyclopaedia .
• (profusely illustrated)
  • • • • Trieste . 27 . 269 - 270 . 1910 . . 1.
  • Book: Le Tre Venézie . Guida d'Italia . Milan . it. Touring Club Italiano. 1920. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100750867 . HathiTrust. Trieste . 247+.
• Book: Novak , Bogdan . Trieste 1941–1954: the ethnic, political and ideological struggle . . 1970 . Chicago . 0-226-59621-4 . registration .
• Angelo Ara, Claudio Magris. Trieste. Un'identità di frontiera. Einaudi Editore. Torino, 1982.
• Book: Cary , Joseph . A Ghost in Trieste . . 1993 . Chicago . 0-226-09528-2.
• Marengo Vaglio . Carla . 1994 . Trieste as a linguistic melting pot . La Revue des Lettres Modernes . 1173 . 55–74 .
• Sluga . Glenda . Glenda Sluga . 1994 . Trieste: ethnicity and the Cold War, 1945–1954 . Journal of Contemporary History . 29 . 2 . 285–304 . 10.1177/002200949402900204 . 154280355 .

Published in the 21st century

in English

• Hametz . Maura . December 2001 . The Carabinieri stood by: The Italian state and the "Slavic Threat" in Trieste, 1919–1922 . . 29 . 4 . 559–574 . 10.1080/00905990120102093 . 155037121 .
• Morris, Jan. Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. DaCapo Press. Cambridge, Mass, 2001
• Book: Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. 2004. John Benjamins Publishing . 90-272-3453-1 . Torn Soul of a City: Trieste as a Center of Polyphonic Culture and Literature . Anna Campanile. .
• Book: Maura Elise Hametz . Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954. 2005. . UK . 978-0-86193-279-5. .
• Book: Graeme Morton. Civil Society, Associations, and Urban Places: Class, Nation, and Culture in 19th-Century Europe . 2006. Ashgate . 978-0-7546-5247-2 . Internationalist Networking in a Multinational Setting: Social Democratic Cultural Associations in Austro-Hungarian Trieste 1900–1914 . Sabine Rutar . 87–101 . https://books.google.com/books?id=8vEQg87bUJ0C&pg=PA87 . etal. .
• Book: Eric Jenkins. To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans . 2012. Routledge. 978-1-136-74606-2 . Trieste . https://books.google.com/books?id=_qe-t5uQF8cC&pg=PA186. .
• Book: Bert De Munck and Anne Winter. Gated Communities?: Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities. 2012. Ashgate . 978-1-4094-3130-5 . Immigration Policy in 18th Century Trieste . Aleksej Kalc.

in Italian

• Franco Gleria and Maurizio Radacich. Il terrore viene dal cielo. Trieste: 1944/1945 (Trieste: Italo Svevo Edizioni, 2007)

External links

• Map of Trieste, 1999
• Europeana. Items related to Trieste, various dates.

Notes and References

1. Book: Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum . History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders . 1996. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-15510-4 . The First Public Clocks . 129 .

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2. Web site: Biblioteca Civica Attilio Hortis . it . Comune di Trieste . 28 December 2016 .
3. Web site: Garden Search: Italy . . London . 3 December 2016 .
4. Web site: Trieste (Italy) Newspapers . WorldCat . . USA . 7 January 2014 .
5. Web site: Italy Profile: Timeline . BBC News . 7 January 2014 .
6. Book: Eric Roman. Austria-Hungary & the Successor States: A Reference Guide . 2003. Facts on File . 978-0-8160-7469-3 . Chronologies: Yugoslavia: People's Republic . https://books.google.com/books?id=EvCfTIsTOskC&pg=PA631 .
7. Book: Pamela Ballinger. History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans . 2003. Princeton University Press. 0-691-08697-4.
8. Web site: Sindaco . Organi Politici . it . Comune di Trieste . 7 January 2014 .