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1815 |
Sant’ Antioco, Sardinia, was the site of the last big Moorish raid on Italy. More than a hundred Sardinians were seized as slaves. Links: Italy, Sardinia, Islam, Slavery ![]() |
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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. Links: Italy, Sardinia, San Marino ![]() |
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1849 1852 |
Massimo d'Azeglio (1798-1866), a Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter, served as prime minister of Sardinia. Links: Italy, Sardinia ![]() |
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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. Links: Italy, Sardinia ![]() |
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1946 |
In Sardinia about 1.5 million hectares of land, accounting for two-thirds of the island's territory, were affected as locusts spread quickly across fields abandoned during WW II. Links: Sardinia, Insects ![]() |
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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. Links: Air Crash, Sardinia ![]() |
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2004 May |
An reporter in Sardinia reported that PM Berlusconi was transforming a grotto into a secret boat tunnel at his Villa Certosa property and questioned whether legal permits had been obtained. The next day the Interior Ministry claimed that all matters relating to the villa were to be protected under a state secrecy law. Links: Italy, Sardinia ![]() |
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2007 Jun 15 |
On the island of Sardinia 2 trains collided head-on, killing a 27-year-old British woman and two Italians. Links: Train Crash, Sardinia ![]() |
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2008 Jan 10 |
A cargo boat laden with 500 tons of garbage from Naples docked at the island of Sardinia as the government worked to undo a weeks-long trash emergency that left heaps of waste piled up on the streets of Naples. Links: Italy, Sardinia ![]() |
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2008 Apr 17 |
In Italy Silvio Berlusconi returned to the world diplomatic stage by hosting Russian President Vladimir Putin at his villa in Sardinia. The event lost some of its luster when Putin was forced, before the glare of television cameras, to deny reports he had secretly divorced his wife and planned to marry an Olympic gymnast. Links: Italy, Russia, Sardinia ![]() |
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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. On Sep 15 Sardinia police said most of the jewels had been recovered. Links: Italy, Saudi Arabia, Sardinia, Robbery ![]() |
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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. Links: Italy, Tragedy, Sardinia ![]() |
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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. Links: Algeria, Italy, Sardinia ![]() |
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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. Links: Italy, Food, Sardinia, Mad Crowd ![]() |
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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. Links: USA, Sardinia, Insects, Agriculture ![]() |
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2020 Jul 3 |
It became clear that Graziano Mesina (78) had fled Corsica after the supreme court in Rome turned down an appeal against a 30-year sentence for drug trafficking. Links: Sardinia ![]() |
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2020 Nov 28 |
The Sardinian town of Bitti was partially buried by mudslides after torrential rainfall. Two bodies were soon found and a 3rd was recovered the next day. Links: Tragedy, Sardinia ![]() |
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2021 Mar 1 |
Italy's island of Sardinia earned "white zone" status allowing for the lifting of coronavirus curbs. Links: Sardinia, COVID-19 ![]() |
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2021 Jun 5 |
Italian media said customs police on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia issued fines of up to 3,000 euros ($3,600) to 41 people who in recent days tried to leave the island with a total of 100 kg (220 pounds) of sand, seashells and beach rocks. Links: Sardinia ![]() |
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2021 Jul 25 |
Fires raged on Italy's Mediterranean island of Sardinia, where nearly 400 people were evacuated overnight. No deaths or injuries have been reported. A preliminary survey indicated that 10,000 acres have been consumed by flames around Montiferru. Links: Fire, Sardinia ![]() |
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2021 Sep 23 |
Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain after a failed secession bid for the northeastern region in 2017, was detained in Sardinia where he was due to attend an event this weekend. A judge freed him from jail the next day pending a hearing on his extradition to Spain to face sedition charges. Links: Spain, Sardinia ![]() |
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2022 Jan 22 |
Sardinia's environment minister, Gabriella Murgia, imposed a ban on harvesting sea urchins, saying research showed that its population had fallen to nearly zero in some areas. Links: Sardinia ![]() |
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2022 Jul 13 |
It was reported that Sardinian farmers are suffering their worst locust invasion in over 30 years. Links: Sardinia, Insects ![]() |
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