1,000 BC The Phoenicians inhabited Sardinia.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, p.T4)
500 BC The Carthaginians inhabited Sardinia.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, p.T4)
238 BC The Romans occupied Sardinia.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, p.T4)
1354-1720 Catalan conquerors ruled over Sardinia.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, p.T5)
1720 Sardinia was handed over
to Piedmont's Savoy Kingdom.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, p.T5)
1720 Ligurian seafarers built
the town of Carloforte on San Pietro island.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, p.T5)
1725 August II, elector of
Saxony and King of Poland, gifted a selection of Meissen porcelain
from his own collection to the king of Sardinia.
(WSJ, 11/21/07, p.D10)
1743 Sep 13, England, Austria
& Savoye-Sardinia signed the Treaty of Worms.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1754 The Carouge area of Geneva
was ceded to the Kingdom of Sardinia.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.T8)
1759 Jul 24, Victor Emmanuel I,
King of Sardinia (1802-21), was born.
(MC, 7/24/02)
1792 Apr 20, France declared
war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia, marking the start of the
French Revolutionary wars.
(AP, 4/20/97)(HN, 4/20/98)
1814 The Kingdom of Sardinia
was united with the Kingdom of Liguria.
(WUD, 1994, p.830)
1815 Sant’ Antioco, Sardinia,
was the site of the last big Moorish raid on Italy. More than a
hundred Sardinians were seized as slaves.
(Econ., 2/21/15, p.51)
1820 Mar 14, Victor Emmanuel
II, King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), was born.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1848 Mar 4, Sardinia-Piemonte
got a new Constitution.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1849 Mar 23, Battle of Novara
(King Charles Albert of Sardinia vs. Italian republic). Austria’s
Gen. Radetzky (83) crushed the Piedmontese forces. Charles Albert
abdicated and was succeeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel II, who
reigned until 1861.
(PCh, 1992, p.449)(SS, 3/23/02)
1849 Jul 31, Garibaldi asked
San Marino for asylum from Austrian forces. San Marino brokered for
Garibaldi’s surrender to Austrian forces. Garibaldi and his wife
escaped, and made their way to Ravenna. Anita Garibaldi died
enroute. Garibaldi managed to reach safety in the Kingdom of
Sardinia.
(ON, 10/06, p.7)
1849-1852 Massimo d'Azeglio (1798-1866), a
Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter, served as prime
minister of Sardinia.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_d%27Azeglio)
1856 The Countess de
Castiglione (Virginia Oldoini) became the mistress of Napoleon III.
She was chosen by her cousin Camillo Cavour, prime minister of
Sardinia under King Victor Emanuel, to win the emperor’s support for
a war against the Austrians.
(WSJ, 12/27/00, p.A10)
1861 Mar 17, Victor Emmanuel,
the King of Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia, proclaimed the foundation
of the kingdom of Italy. The Risorgimento movement resulted in
Italian unification. The Carbonari was a secret society in early
19th century Italy who advocated liberal and patriotic ideas and
opposed the conservative regimes imposed on Italy by the Allies who
had defeated Napoleon in 1815. As with other secret societies of the
age, the Carbonari had an initiation ceremony, complex symbols and a
hierarchical organization though its exact origins are left to
conjecture. They recruited primarily among nobility, small
landowners and officeholders and may have been an offshoot of the
Freemasons. Their influence is credited with preparing the way for
the Risorgimento movement.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_II_of_Italy)(Econ,
3/19/11, p.61) (HNQ, 8/21/00)
1943 Aug 18, The Heinkel-111 of
Otto Skorzeny, Waffen SS commander, was shot down at Sardinia.
(MC, 8/18/02)
1960s Aga Khan developed the
Costa Smeralda luxury resort.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, p.T5)
2001 Jun, Dennis Kozlowski,
head of Tyco Intl., held an extravagant $2 million weeklong,
birthday party for his wife in Sardinia. Kozlowski was later
indicted for wasting Tyco assets. [see Sep 12, 2002]
(WSJ, 10/29/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 25, The USS Hartford,
a fast attack submarine, went aground off La Maddalena, a tiny
island off Sardinia's north coast that hosts a Naval support
facility. 2 officers were later relieved of their commands over the
incident.
(AP, 11/13/03)
2004 Feb 24, In Sardinia a
small plane carrying a medical team and a heart for a transplant
patient crashed, killing all six people aboard.
(AP, 2/24/04)
2007 Jun 15, On the island of
Sardinia 2 trains collided head-on, killing a 27-year-old British
woman and two Italians.
(AP, 6/15/07)
2009 Aug 9, Italians newspapers
reported that burglars earlier in the week had made off with jewels
and cash worth 11 million euros (15.6 million dollars) from the
hotel room of a Saudi princess in Sardinia, sparking a diplomatic
incident.
(AFP, 8/9/09)
2013 Nov 19, Italian declared
authorities declared a state of emergency in Sardinia as Cyclone
Cleopatra dropped 450mm of rain in an hour and a half overnight. 16
people were reported dead.
(Reuters, 11/19/13)(AFP, 11/19/13)(Reuters,
11/20/13)
2017 Sep 2, Italian news agency
ANSA said that about 800 Algerians had reached Sardinia aboard
smugglers' boats directly from their homeland so far this year. Gov.
Francesco Pigliaru has asked Italy's government to work with
Algerian authorities to stop the flow.
(AP, 9/2/17)
2019 Feb 12, On the Italian
island of Sardinia shepherds were joined by
students on their fifth straight day of protests in a march in
Nuoro, where shopkeepers shut stores in solidarity. The shepherds
poured milk from large canisters onto streets to protest prices paid
by cheesemakers for their milk.
(AP, 2/12/19)
2019 Jun 16, It was reported
that locusts are devouring crops across the Italian island of
Sardinia in the worst such invasion in 70 years.
(SSFC, 6/16/19, p.A18)
