Events So Far

9 July

 * Fighting breaks out in Aprilia between local police and workers.

16 July

 * Bill to increase tax on the shipbuilding industry by 5% to compensate for industry damage caused by raising wages passes.

17 July

 * Fighting breaks out in Genoa between local police and workers.
 * Four workers killed in a home raid by police and military forces after trying to destroy important documents by burning the house down.

19 July

 * Antonio Miseppi, the owner of the Il Piacere in Rome, is arrested by military forces for allowing socialist revolutionaries to plot inside his bar.

22 July

 * Romano Giovanucci is arrested by police after ordering an army patrol to fire upon a crowd, falsely believing that they were armed, and holding Ferdinando Bona hostage in an army post.

25 July

 * The self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionaries, Francesco di Bartolo, attempts a coup d'état after seizing Piazza San Silvestro by rallying workers to his cause. The rally quickly becomes violent as workers start clashing with police and begin marching towards the Chamber of Deputies and Palazzo Chigi. As fighting is taken to the streets, military reinforcements from army posts in Rome are called upon. Military forces arrive with two fields guns and are able to push the revolutionaries back to Plaza where they eventually surrendered. Francesco di Bartolo was soon arrested after a bloody shoot-out.

26 July

 * Francesco di Bartolo is executed.


 * Leandro Masino sells his steel mill in Perugia to Enrico Monaldo

1 August

 * 1919 Italian General Election
 * The leader of People's Party Luigi Sturzo resigns after a disastrous election defeat.
 * Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini in Milan fails.

3 August

 * Marco Esposito becomes the new leader of the People's Party.
 * The Voluntary Militia for National Security [Blackshirts] is founded as the paramilitary wing of the Italian Fasci di Combat to protect party members.
 * Adriano Giovanardi is assassinated in Rome.

8 August

 * Enrico Monaldo's steel mill goes on strike which Petronio Mancini orders Blackshirts to suppress. Afterward, Enrico Monaldo shares his steel mill with his workers as a cooperative.
 * Romano Giovanucci is given life imprisonment.

15 August

 * Party of Italian Workers splits into two parties: Italian Reformists Socialist Party and Italian Workers' Revolutionary Party.

26 August

 * Bill to create the minimum wage passes.
 * Bill to cut taxes on the textile industry fails.
 * Bill to force trucks to be checked upon their arrival into a city passes.
 * Bill to increase veteran stipends and wages for military officials passes.
 * Bill to tax the church fails.

28 August

 * The Italian Fasci di Combat attempt a coup d'état as Blackshirts, with support from rebel military detachments, take over power in Rome. Upon hearing the coup d'état, regional military forces march to Rome with heavy armament. Fighting ensues within Rome until Benito Mussolini and Petroni Mancini were killed following capture by military forces. Attempted insurgencies in other major cities across the nation also fail.

7 February

 * Red Guards [Redshirts] are founded as the paramilitary wing of the Italian Workers' Revolutionary Party.


 * A demonstration of workers at a marketplace in Rome ended when a group of men fired upon the demonstrators. Vittorio Bruno and Giacinto Moreno were injured in the attack.
 * Cipriano Alessio, a prominent member of the Italian Fasci di Combat, and Ferdinando Bona are assassinated in Olimpia in Rome by Redshirts.
 * Flavio Bona is shot in Rome by Redshirts.

8 February

 * Assassination attempt on Aurelio Sabbatini in Rome fails.
 * The Battle of Lucina Street.
 * Flavio Bona is assassinated in Rome.

9 February

 * Alessandro Ricci resigned the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies and formed a new party, the Conservative National Party.
 * Marte Fazio, a prominent member of the Italian Fasci di Combat, is assassinated on his balcony near Saint Irene's Church in Rome by Redshirts.

14 February

 * One redshirt is killed and two others are arrested by police after the assassination of two fasci.
 * Palazzo Chigi and the Headquarters of the Italian Workers' Revolutionary Party are both attacked with several documents been stolen.

15 February

 * Bill to ban paramilitary groups passes.

16 February

 * 1921 Italian General Election
 * Marco Esposito is found dead in the sewers of Rome.
 * The leader of Liberal Union Aurelio Sabbatini resigns after an election defeat.

17 February

 * Giuseppe Mastel becomes the new leader of the Liberal Union.
 * Giacinto Moreno of the Italian Reformists Socialist Party has been made the new Minister of Justice.

18 February

 * The Blackshirt and Redshirt paramilitaries are officially disbanded in accordance with the new law
 * The Italian Fasci di Combat changes its name to the National Fascist Party to differentiate itself from the coup d'état on the 28 August 1919.

21 February

 * Giuseppe Mastel is killed by a car bomb in front of the Stern in Rome.
 * Bill to repeal the ban on paramilitary groups fails.
 * Bill to create a national trade union passes.
 * Bill to nationalise major weapon factories passes.