1000 Latins come to Italy from the Danube region.
218 Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy.
82 Dio Chrysostom is banished from Rome, Italy, and Bithynia after advising one of the Emperor's conspiring relatives.
100 Trajan creates a policy intended to restore the former economic supremacy of Italy.
193 Before entering Rome, Severus avenges the death of Pertinax by disarming and sacking the Praetorian guard. Prior to this, the Praetorian guard was staffed with recruits from Italy, from now on it will be staffed by members drawn from the provincial legions.
273 Administrative reorganization of Italy. Aurelian adopts as permanent the reforms instituted by Caracalla.
307 Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy and names Licinius as Augustus.
400 First invasion of Italy by Alaric (probable date).
401 The Visigoths begin to attack the northernmost reaches of Italy, causing destruction in the countryside.
403 Alaric I leaves Italy after his first unsuccessful invasion.
413 Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the provinces of Italy that have been plundered by the Visigoths.
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451 In Italy, refugees flee to swamp areas near modern-day Venice.
452 Attila, king of the Huns, invades Italy
480 Odoacer defeats an attempt by Julius Nepos to recapture Italy, and has Julius killed.
488 Theodoric the Great invades Italy.
489 Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, continues his invasion of Italy with the approval of Byzantine emperor Zeno.
489 Theodoric defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
529 Saint Benedict of Nursia founds the monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy.
535 Justinian I orders Belisarius to start the reconquest of Italy; Mundus simultaneously invades Dalmatia.
536 Belisarius, a general in the service of Justinian I, lands in Italy
542 Ostrogoth king Totila reconquers Naples, Benevento, and other parts of Italy.
544 Belisarius is sent back to Italy to once more fight the Ostrogoths who have been making reconquests in the area.
548 Belisarius is relieved of command over the Byzantine forces in Italy and replaced by Narses.
591 Locust swarm destroys harvest in Italy.
595 Lombards sack Terracina in Italy.
610 The Avars try to invade Italy.
612 Saint Columbanus moves to Italy to establish the monastery of Bobbio (approximate date).
663 Byzantine emperor Constans II invades south Italy
754 Pepin the Short sends his armies into Italy to aid the pope against the Lombards.
866 Louis II beats the Saracen invaders in Italy.
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896 The Eastern Franks invade and conquer Italy under the leadership of Arnulf of Carinthia.
898 Bologna joins Italian Kingdom
927 On 15 August, the ancient city of Taranto, in southern Italy, is destroyed by the Saracens
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1000 Fonderia Pontificia Marinelli bell foundry founded in Italy.
1020 Third Italian campaign of Henry II of Germany
1042 The Normans in Italy move their capital to Melfi.
1056 Anselm of Canterbury leaves Italy.
1070 Lanfranc, an Italian lawyer, becomes William's formidable Archbishop of Canterbury.
1077 Foundation of the independent state of Friuli in modern Italy.
1081 Corfu taken from Byzantine Empire by Robert Guiscard, Norman King of Southern Italy
1108 In Pistoia, Italy, Cathedral of San Zeno burned to the ground.
1110 Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor invades Italy
1174 Fire destroys most of Padua, in Italy
1237 Gualdo Tadino, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
1251 King Conrad IV of Germany invades Italy, but fails to subdue the supporters of Pope Innocent IV.
1252 The first European gold coins are minted in the Italian city of Florence, and are known as florins.
1253 A series of naval wars begins between the Italian city-states of Genoa and Venice, which will continue sporadically until 1371.
1253 The Basilica of San Francesco, the earliest important structure in the Italian Gothic style of architecture, is completed in Assisi, Italy.
1258 Civil unrest in northern Italy spawns the medieval musical form of Geisslerlieder, penitential songs sung by wandering bands of Flagellants.
1271 Pope Gregory X is elected pope by compromise between French and Italian cardinals, ending a three-year conclave, the longest ever.
1282 The technology of watermarks is introduced by paper manufacturers of Bologna, Italy.
1284 The Italian city-state of Genoa defeats its rival Pisa in the naval Battle of Meloria, ending Pisa's marine power and hastening the city's decline in power.
1287 The Altar of St. James at the Cathedral of San Zeno in Pistoia, Italy — a masterwork of the silversmithing trade containing nearly a ton of silver — is begun; it will not be completed for nearly 200 years.
1289 The Italian Guelph and Ghibelline factions fight in the battle of Campaldino; the Guelph victory secures their position of power in Florence.
1295 Marco Polo returns to Italy from his travels to China.
1300 Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first International Currency.
1361 Founding of the University of Pavia, Italy.
1387 In Italy, Battle of Castagnaro, between Giovanni Ordelaffi, for Verona, and John Hawkwood, for Padua, who was the winner.
1426 ''"Castello Orsini-Odescalchi"'' built in Bracciano, Italy by the Orsini family.
1438 In Italy, the siege of Brescia by the condottieri troops of Italian]] explorer believes he has reached [[East Asia]].
1519 [[Mannerism]], artistic form appears in Italy and spreads.
1528 [[Battle of Landriano]] - A French army in Italy under Marshal [[St. Pol]] is decisively defeated.
1529 [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
2003 Human evolution: The journal ''Nature'' reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints had been found in Italy.
2003 A power failure affects all of Italy except Sardinia, cutting service to more than 56 million people.
2005 The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of 1 passenger and injuring 2 more.
2005 Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, re-forms the government after its dissolution three days earlier.
2005 An ATR-72 heading from Italy to Tunisia crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 of 39 on board.