1907 in Italy

Kingdom of Italy

• Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III
• Prime Minister – Giovanni Giolitti
• Population – 33,952,000

  Events

January

• January 6 – Education reformer Maria Montessori opens her first Casa dei Bambini, or Children's House, in Rome.

  April

• April 28 – The vulcano on the island of Stromboli is erupting large quantities of ash, damaging vineyards in Calabria and Sicily.

  June

• June 22 – Bakers declare a general strike throughout the whole of Italy after the government postponed consideration of a bill prohibiting night work.

  July

• July 15 – Former Minister of Public Instruction, Nunzio Nasi, is imprisoned on charges of embezzling USD 300,000.
• July 21 – Hundreds are wounded in Palermo in a clash between crowds and the police at a demonstration in favour of Nunzio Nasi, former Minister of Public Instruction, charged with embezzlement.

  August

• August 10 – Prince Scipione Borghese and Ettore Guizardi, the prince's driver, win the Peking to Paris motor race with a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala, accompanied by journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr..

  October

• October 23 – A magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes Calabria, at a depth of 33.0 km. The event caused 167 deaths and major damage. The town Ferruzzano was the epicentre where many houses collapsed almost completely, and 158 persons, or 8% of its population, were killed.

  November

• November 11 – Due to financial difficulties in the United States, the stock exchange in Rome, unable to reverse a downward trend, is closed.
• November 17 – The area of Ferruzzano, Brancaleone and Bianco in Calabria was hit again by an earthquake.
• November 21 − Ernest Nathan is appointed the first Jewish mayor of Rome, after a victory of anti-clericals at the municipal elections.

  Sports

• April 14 – Lucien Petit-Breton wins the first official edition of Milan–San Remo, organised by La Gazzetta dello Sport.
• April 22 – Felice Nazzaro wins the 1907 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.
• April 27 – A.C. Milan wins the 1907 Italian Football Championship.
• November 3 – Gustave Garrigou wins the Giro di Lombardia.

  Births

• March 2 – Lea Schiavi, Italian dissident journalist writing for left-wing journals in opposition to the Italian fascist government led by Benito Mussolini
• July 24 – Vitaliano Brancati, Italian novelist and screenwriter
• August 31 – Altiero Spinelli, Italian political theorist and a European federalist
• November 21 – Giorgio Amendola, Italian writer and politician
• November 28 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist

  Deaths

• January 19 – Giuseppe Saracco, Italian politician and Prime Minister
• February 16 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate
• June 14 – Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Italian neo-impressionist painter