This is a placeholder for your sticky navigation bar. It should not be visible.

Tag: Blackshirts

Podcast

31st October 1922: The cabinet of Benito Mussolini formally takes power in Italy

31st October 2019
Tagged as: Blackshirts, Fascism, Italy, March on Rome, Mussolini, Revolution, Rome, Victor Emmanuel III

Mussolini, who was determined to restore the glory of the Roman Empire following the ‘mutilated victory’ of the First World War, had formed the precursor to the Fascist Party in 1919.

HistoryPod

Tag: Blackshirts

31st October 1922: The cabinet of Benito Mussolini formally takes power in Italy

Meta

17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War

19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

22nd February 1797: The last invasion of Britain takes place, leading to the Battle of Fishguard

26th February 1935: Hitler formally establishes the Luftwaffe in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles

18th November 1987: 31 people killed in the Kings Cross fire on the London Underground

17th November 1558: Queen Elizabeth I’s reign begins after the death of Mary I

16th November 1990: Milli Vanilli stripped of Grammy Award for not singing on their album

15th November 1917: Georges Clemenceau appointed Prime Minister of France

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

Tag: Blackshirts

Tags

Meta