1918 in Italy

← 1917 1916 1915 1918 in Italy → 1919 1920 1921
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Events from the year 1918 in Italy.

Kingdom of Italy

• Monarch –
  Victor Emmanuel III
  (1900–1946)
• Prime Minister – Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1917–1919)
• Population – 35,922,000

• Due to World War I and the Spanish flu the Italian population declined by 612,937 people

Events

In the autumn of 1917 at the Battle of Caporetto, the Germans and Austrians had defeated the Italians who fell back to the Piave. The Royal Italian Army lost over 300,000 men. Italy reorganizes the army under the new commander General Armando Diaz and receives reinforcements of the Allied powers.

June

• June 10 – The
  MAS motor torpedo boats off the Dalmatian
  coast.
• June 15–23 –
  Italian Front, which fails. The Battle of the Piave is the decisive battle of World War I
  on the Italian Front.

• August 9 –
  Italian flag
  ).
• August 13-September 3 –
  Austro-Hungarian troops had set up a fortified position with small artillery pieces, from which they were able to shell the road to the Gavia Pass
  and thus harass the Italian supply convoys. Italian troops conquer the top but it is retaken by Austro-Hungarian troops.

• October 24-November 3 –
  end of the First World War less than two weeks later.^[1][2]

• November 3 –
  Tyrol, including Innsbruck, was completed in the following days.^[3]
• November 9 – After the Austrian defeat, Italian troops unilaterally occupied territories of Austria-Hungary promised to Italy by the secret 1915
  a series of violent fights in Split
  in the next two years between Croats and Italians.

• September 9 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic (died 2012)
• December 27 – Mario Pedini, politician (died 2003)

Deaths

• February 10 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• April 14 –
  geophysicist and mathematician
  (b. 1860)
• April 30 – Amilcare Cipriani, Italian socialist, anarchist and patriot (b. 1844)
• June 10 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (b. 1842)
• June 16 –
  Battle of the Piave River
  (b. 1890)
• October 19 – Prince Umberto, Count of Salemi, died of Spanish flu (b. 1889)

References