Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1842)

Giovanni Giolitti

Giovanni Giolitti was an Italian statesman who was the prime minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. He is the longest-serving democratically elected prime minister in Italian history, and the second-longest serving overall after Benito Mussolini. A prominent leader of the Historical Left and the Liberals, he is widely considered one of the most wealthy, powerful and important politicians in Italian history; due to his dominant position in Italian politics, Giolitti was accused by critics of being an authoritarian leader and a parliamentary dictator.

Born

1842

October 27

Died

1928

Era

1840s

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Giovanni, in brief

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Key dates

1842 Born
1928 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

312 Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
1275 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1524 French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1553 Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.

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The world in 1928

When Giovanni departed

april 12 The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
august 27 The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
december 17 Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
december 4 Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1842

A. A. Ames 1842–1911 American physician and politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (died 1911) Abdul Hamid II 1842–1918 Ottoman sultan (born 1842) Joe Start 1842–1927 American baseball player and manager (born 1842) Mykola Lysenko 1842– Ukrainian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1912)

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