Timeline of Bergamo

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bergamo in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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## Prior to 20th century

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Early

* Prehistoric Italy
* Nuragic civilization (18th-3rd c. BC)
* Etruscan civilization (12th-6th c. BC)
* Magna Graecia (8th-3rd c. BC)

Ancient Rome

* Kingdom (753 BC-509 BC)
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* Roman expansion in Italy
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Romano-Barbarian Kingdoms

|  Odoacer's|  476-493

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Ostrogothic|  493-553
Vandal|  435-534
Lombard|  568-774
Frankish (Carolingian Empire)|  774-962
Germanic (Holy Roman Empire)|  962-1801

Medieval

* Italy in the Middle Ages
* Byzantine reconquest of Italy (6th-8th c.)
* Islam and Normans in southern Italy
* Maritime republics and Italian city-states
* Guelphs and Ghibellines

Early modern

* Italian Renaissance (14th-16th c.)
* Italian Wars (1494-1559)
* Catholic revival (1545-1648)
* Mid-16th c. to early 19th c.
* Napoleonic Italy (1801-1814)

*     * Republic
* Kingdom

* Risorgimento (1815-1871)

* Young Italy

Modern

* Monarchy (1861-1946)
* Colonial Empire (1882-1960)
* Italy in World War I (1914-1918)
* Fascism (1922-1943)
* Italy in World War II (1940-1945)
* Fascist Italian Social Republic, Partisans and Italian Civil War (1943-1945)
* Republic (1946-1994)
* Years of Lead (1970s-1980s)
* Maxi Trial (1986-1992)
* Mani pulite (1992-2001)

Contemporary

* Second Republic (1994–2022)
* Great Recession (2007-2009)
* European migrant crisis (2014-2016)
* COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2023)
* Rinnovamento (2021-present)

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* 45 BCE - Bergomum municipium established.[1]
* 4th C. CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Bergamo established.[2]
* 894 CE - Bergamo besieged by forces of Arnulf of Carinthia.[1]
* 1108 CE - Comunal consuls elected.[1]
* 1137 - Santa Maria Maggiore church construction begins.[3]
* 1264 - Milanese in power.[4]
* 1336 - Rocca di Bergamo [it] (castle) built.[1]
* 1355 - Santa Maria Maggiore church completed.[4]
* 1408 - Pandolfo III Malatesta in power.[1]
* 1428 - Bergamo becomes part of the Venetian Republic.[4]
* 1476 - Cappella Colleoni (chapel) built.[1]
* 1513 - Artist Lorenzo Lotto moves to Bergamo.[1]
* 1549 - Population: 20,843.[3]
* 1561 - Venetian wall of Bergamo [it] construction begins.[3]
* 1764 - Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai (library) founded.[5]
* 1776 - Population: 28,581.[3]
* 1780 - Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo (art academy) founded.[1]
* 1791 - Teatro Nuovo (theatre) opens.
* 1797
* French client Republic of Bergamo created.
* Future composer Gaetano Donizetti born in Bergamo.
* 1805 - Lezioni caritatevoli di musica (now the Conservatorio Gaetano Donizetti) founded.[3]
* 1814 - Austrians in power.[3]
* 1840 - Palazzo Frizzoni [it] built.
* 1857 - Bergamo railway station in operation.
* 1859 - Circondario di Bergamo [it] (administrative area) established.
* 1860 - Giovanni Battista Camozzi Vertova [it] becomes mayor.
* 1861 - Population: 37,343.[3]
* 1869 - Banca Popolare di Bergamo (bank) established.
* 1871 - Natural Science Museum founded.
* 1887 - Bergamo Funicular railway Upper Town - Lower Town (funicular) begins operating.[3]
* 1890 - Monza-Trezzo-Bergamo Tram [it] begins operating.
* 1897
* Monument to Donizetti, Bergamo erected in the Piazza Cavour.
* Population: 45,929.[6]

## 20th century

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* 1901 - Bergamo-Trescore-Sarnico Tramway [it] begins operating.
* 1907
* City walls dismantled.[1]
* Atalanta B.C. (football club) formed.
* 1911 - Population: 55,306.[7]
* 1912 - Bergamo-Albino Tram (1912-1953) [it] and Funicolare di Bergamo-San Vigilio [it] (funicular) begin operating.
* 1927 - Colognola del Piano, Grumello del Piano [it], and Valtesse become part of Bergamo.[3]
* 1928
* Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia (stadium) opens.
* Population: 81,400.[3]
* 1968 - Institute of Foreign Languages and Literature established.[8]
* 1983 - Bergamo Film Meeting (festival) begins.

## 21st century

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* 2009 - Bergamo–Albino light rail begins operating.
* 2013 - Population: 115,072.[9]
* 2014 - Giorgio Gori becomes mayor.

## See also

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* History of Bergamo [it]
* List of mayors of Bergamo
* List of bishops of Bergamo
* Timeline of the Republic of Venice, of which Bergamo was part 1428-1797

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

* Liguria region: Timeline of Genoa
* Lombardy region: Timeline of Brescia; Cremona; Mantua; Milan; Pavia
* Piedmont region: Timeline of Novara; Turin

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Bergamo". Oxford Art Online. `{{cite web}}`: Missing or empty `|url=` (help) Retrieved 22 December 2016
2. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Treccani 1930.
4. ^ a b c Britannica 1910.
5. ^ "(Comune: Bergamo)". Anagrafe delle biblioteche italiane [it] (Registry of Italian Libraries) (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Retrieved 22 December 2016.+[it]+(Registry+of+Italian+Libraries)&rft.atitle=(Comune:+Bergamo)&rft_id=http://anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/opencms/opencms/&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Timeline+of+Bergamo" class="Z3988">
6. ^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590550 - via HathiTrust.
7. ^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368374.
8. ^ Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. Vol. 4\. Cambridge University Press. p. 576+. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
9. ^ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 21 December 2016.

## Bibliography

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### in English

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* William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Bergomum". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cuq.
* "Bergamo", Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy (16th ed.), London: John Murray, 1897, OCLC 2231483
* Ashby, Thomas (1910). "Bergamo" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). p. 772.
* Edward Hutton (1912), "Bergamo", The Cities of Lombardy, New York: Macmillan Co.
* "Bergamo", Northern Italy (14th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913 (+ 1870 ed.)
* Egerton R. Williams Jr. (1914), "Bergamo (etc.)", Lombard Towns of Italy, London: Smith, Elder & Co.

### in Italian

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* Nicola Bernardini, ed. (1890). "Provincia di Bergamo". Guida della stampa periodica italiana (in Italian). Lecce: R. Tipografia editrice salentina dei fratelli Spacciante. hdl:2027/njp.32101074983378.
* P. Pesenti. Bergamo (Bergamo, 1910)
* "Bergamo", Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian), 1930
* B. Belotti. Storia di Bergamo e dei bergamaschi, 1–4 (Bergamo, 1959)
* V. Zanella. Bergamo città (Bergamo, 1971)

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* Duomo di Bergamo
* Santa Maria Maggiore
* Teatro Donizetti

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* Evaristo Baschenis
* Filippo Della Vite
* Gaetano Donizetti
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* Sofia Goggia
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* Filippo Maria Pandolfi
* Carlo Alfredo Piatti
* Andrea Previtali
* Giacomo Quarenghi
* Enrico Rastelli
* Gianluigi Trovesi
* Andrew Viterbi

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* Valtesse
* Valverde

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