Timeline of Brindisi

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Brindisi in the Apulia region of Italy.

Prior to 15th century

 * 266 BCE – Romans in power.
 * 244 BCE – Brundisium becomes a Roman colony.
 * 190 BCE – Appian Way (Rome-Brundisium) built (approximate date).
 * 49 BCE – The Siege of Brundisium occurs during Caesar's civil war. Caesar fails to prevent Pompey from crossing the Adriatic Sea.
 * 40 BCE - The Treaty of Brundisium is signed after skirmishes between troops of Octavian and Mark Antony. The treaty places the western Roman territory in Gaul and Illyricum under Octavian influence.
 * 38 BCE – "Foedus brundissinum, a brief reconciliation between Mark Antony and Octavian" takes place in Brundisium.
 * 19 BCE – 21 September: Poet Virgil dies in Brundisium.
 * 109 CE – Via Traiana (Beneventum-Brundisium road) built.
 * 5th–6th C. CE – Roman Catholic diocese of Brindisi established.
 * 7th C. CE – Lombards in power.
 * 836 – Brindisi sacked by Saracens.
 * 867 – Brindisi taken by forces of Louis II of Italy.
 * 1071 – Normans in power.
 * 1080 – (church) built.
 * 1089 – dedicated.
 * 1192 – (fountain) installed.
 * 1225 – Wedding of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella II of Jerusalem.
 * 1227 – (castle) built.
 * 1230 – (church) built.
 * 1310 – (church) built.
 * 1322 – (church) built.
 * 1348 – Plague.
 * 1352 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I of Hungary.
 * 1383 – Brindisi sacked by forces of Louis I, Duke of Anjou.
 * 1385 – Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini in power.

15th–19th centuries

 * 1456 – 1456 Central Italy earthquakes.
 * 1496 – Venetians in power.
 * 1509 – Venetian rule ends.
 * 1528 – One of Brindisi's collapses.
 * 1734 - Francisco José de Ovando, 1st Marquis of Brindisi captures the castle of Brindisi.
 * 1743 – 1743 Salento earthquake.
 * 1860
 * Brindisi becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.
 * (provincial district) established.
 * 1861 – Population: 9,137.(it)
 * 1865 – Brindisi railway station opens.
 * 1866 – Adriatic railway (Lecce-Brindisi) begins operating.
 * 1870
 * Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company adds Brindisi to its route.
 * Brindisi Marittima railway station opened (closed in 2006).
 * 1871 – Population: 13,755.
 * 1881 – Population: 16,618.(it)
 * 1886 – Taranto–Brindisi railway begins operating.
 * 1892 – Indipendente newspaper begins publication.
 * 1898 – Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company deletes Brindisi from its route.

20th century

 * 1901 – Population: 25,317.
 * 1905 – Harbour railway station built.
 * 1911 – Population: 25,692.(it)
 * 1912 – F.B. Brindisi 1912 (football club) formed.
 * 1916 – (seaplane base) built in the Port of Brindisi.
 * 1923 – Brindisi – Salento Airport built.
 * 1927 – Administrative Province of Brindisi formed.
 * 1931 – (war monument) erected.
 * 1933 – erected.
 * 1934 - Brindisi Airport commercial flights start.
 * 1936 – Population: 41,699.(it)
 * 1943 – September: Italian prime minister Badoglio and king Victor Emmanuel flee to Brindisi from Rome after the Armistice of Cassibile during World War II.
 * 1944 – February: Administrative seat of national government relocated from Brindisi to Salerno.
 * 1961 – Population: 70,657.(it)
 * 1963 – Archivio di Stato di Brindisi (state archives) established.
 * 1969 – (transit entity) formed.
 * 1979 –  newspaper begins publication.
 * 1991 – Population: 95,383.(it)

21st century

 * 2006 – Teatro Verdi (Brindisi) (theatre) opens.
 * 2012 – 19 May: Brindisi school bombing.
 * 2013 – Population: 88,611.
 * 2016 – June: Local election held; Angela Carluccio becomes mayor.
 * 2018 – June: Local election held; Riccardo Rossi becomes mayor.

in Italian

 * A. Della Monaca. Memoria historica dell’antichissima e fedelissima città di Brindisi (Lecce 1674)
 * A. De Leo. Dell’antichissima città di Brindisi e suo celebre porto (Naples, 1846)
 * F. Ascoli. La storia di Brindisi (Rimini 1886)
 * circa 1900?
 * R. Alaggio. Brindisi medievale. Natura, Santi e Sovrani in una città di frontiera (Naples, 2009)
 * circa 1900?
 * R. Alaggio. Brindisi medievale. Natura, Santi e Sovrani in una città di frontiera (Naples, 2009)
 * R. Alaggio. Brindisi medievale. Natura, Santi e Sovrani in una città di frontiera (Naples, 2009)
 * R. Alaggio. Brindisi medievale. Natura, Santi e Sovrani in una città di frontiera (Naples, 2009)