Timeline of Salerno

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Salerno in the Campania region of Italy.

Prior to 20th century



 * 197 BCE - Roman colony Salernum founded at site of former Etruscan town Irnthi.(it)
 * 79 CE - Salerno was buried by the rain of ash and debris of the eruption of Vesuvius that razed Pompeii and Herculaneum to the ground
 * 5th-7th C. CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Salerno established.
 * 646 CE - Salerno becomes part of the Lombard Duchy of Benevento.
 * 774 CE - Duke Arechis II of Benevento relocates to Salerno.
 * 9th C. - Schola Medica Salernitana (medical school) founded.
 * 851 - Principality of Salerno established. List of princes of Salerno.
 * 870s - Salerno besieged by Arab forces.
 * 1076 - Salerno taken by forces of Norman Robert Guiscard.
 * 1084 - Saint Matthew Cathedral consecrated by Pope Gregory VII.
 * 1150 - University founded.
 * 1194 - Salerno sacked by forces of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
 * 1260 - Port of Salerno construction begins.
 * 1419 - Salerno becomes part of the Kingdom of Naples and administrative centre of its.
 * 1578 - Salerno sacked by "Muslim pirates."
 * 1656 - Plague.
 * 1688 - Earthquake.
 * 1694 - Earthquake.
 * 1799 - Salerno becomes part of the French client Parthenopean Republic.
 * 1817 - University closed.
 * 1843 - (library) founded.
 * 1860 - (administrative region) established.
 * 1866 - Naples–Salerno railway begins operating; Salerno railway station opens.
 * 1872 - opens.
 * 1875 - Frusta newspaper begins publication.
 * 1895 - Salerno–Reggio Calabria railway in operation.
 * 1896 - L'Eco newspaper begins publication.
 * 1897 - Population: 37,310.

20th century

 * 1902 - (railway) begins operating.
 * 1911 - Population: 45,682.
 * 1919 - U.S. Salernitana 1919 (football club) formed.
 * 1920 - (history society) founded.
 * 1926 - Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport established.
 * 1936 - Population: 67,186.(it)
 * 1937 - begins operating.
 * 1943 - 9 September: Salerno besieged by Allied forces during World War II.
 * 1944 - Salerno is Capital of Italy for some months
 * February: headquartered in Salerno during the.
 * April: Communist made in Salerno.
 * 1946 - Festival del cinema di Salerno begins.
 * 1954 - 25 October:.
 * 1956 - Local election held; becomes mayor (until 1970).
 * 1961 - Population: 117,363.(it)
 * 1964 - (transit entity) formed.
 * 1968 - University of Salerno established.
 * 1971 - Population: 155,498.(it)
 * 1982 - 26 August: occurs in the  quartiere.
 * 1990 - Stadio Arechi (stadium) opens.
 * 1993 - Vincenzo De Luca becomes mayor.
 * 1998 - (park) opens.

21st century

 * 2013
 * Salerno metropolitan railway service begins operating.
 * Population: 131,925.
 * 2016 - Vincenzo Napoli becomes mayor.

in Italian

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