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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 politici…
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Born 27 October 1842 · Died 17 July 1928 · Q297190
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2024· 1 entry
2019· 2 entries
Corriere della Sera: Giovanni Giolitti- Filippo Turati, 1903
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Corriere della Sera: Giovanni Giolitti - Vincenzo Ottorino Gentiloni, 1913
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1928· 2 entries
Died 1928-07-17.
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Spoke to the Chamber of Deputies against the law that effectively abolished the elections, replacing them with the ratification of governmental appointments
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1925· 1 entry
“For the love of your country, do not treat the Italian people as if they did not deserve the freedom they always had in the past!”
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1924· 1 entry
Voting against the law that restricted press freedom
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1921· 3 entries
Campaign: 1921 election and resignation.
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Giolitti founded the National Blocs, an electoral list composed by the Liberals, the Italian Fasces of Combat led by Mussolini, the Italian Nationalist Association led by Enrico Corradini, and other right-wing forces
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Supported the cabinet of Ivanoe Bonomi, a right-wing socialist who led the Italian Reformist Socialist Party; when Bonomi resigned, the Liberals proposed again Giolitti as prime minister, considering him the only one
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1920· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1920–1921).
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Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1920–1921).
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1919· 1 entry
This delineation of territory was confirmed, with Fiume remaining outside of Italian borders, instead joined with adjacent Croatian territories into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
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1913· 4 entries
Campaign: 1913 election and resignation.
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"represented the legal basis of the institutional activity of the Labour Inspectorate, still structured within the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade
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Giolitti founded the Liberal Party, a political party was simply and collectively called Liberals
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And the electorate was expanded by a new franchise law from 3 million to 8 million, he collaborated with the Italian Catholic Electoral Union, led by Ottorino Gentiloni in the Gentiloni pact
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1912· 3 entries
(also known as the First Treaty of Lausanne (1912), as it was signed at the Château d'Ouchy in Lausanne, Switzerland
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Lower ranking-personnel in central government administration, together with forestry workers, were given (as noted by one study) “the contractual right of automatic and compulsory membership in the national insurance pro
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Giolitti had Parliament approve an electoral reform bill that expanded the electorate from 3 million to 8
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1911· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1911–1914).
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Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1911–1914).
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1909· 2 entries
Campaign: 1909 election and resignation.
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Italian general election, Giolitti's Left gained 54
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1907· 1 entry
Career landmark: minister of Public Works of the Kingdom of Italy (1907–1907).
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1906· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1906–1909).
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Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1906–1909).
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1904· 3 entries
Watchmen in the hydraulic works were given (as noted by one study) “the contractual right of automatic and compulsory membership in the national insurance programme,” followed by staff in the state salt works the followi
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Career landmark: minister of the Navy of the Kingdom of Italy (1904–1904).
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Pope Pius X informally gave permission to Catholics to vote for government candidates in areas where the PSI might win
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1903· 3 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1903–1905).
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Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1903–1905).
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Career landmark: minister of the Navy of the Kingdom of Italy (1903–1904).
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1902· 1 entry
Italy and France had signed a secret treaty which accorded freedom of intervention in Tripolitania and Morocco
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1901· 1 entry
Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1901–1903).
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1900· 1 entry
Made his comeback after eight years, openly opposing the authoritarian new public safety laws
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1897· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1897–1900).
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1895· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1895–1897).
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1893· 2 entries
Career landmark: minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Italy (1893–1893).
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Career landmark: minister of Public Works of the Kingdom of Italy (1893–1893).
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1892· 3 entries
Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1892–1893).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1892–1893).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1892–1895).
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1878· 1 entry
In which France and Great Britain had agreed to the occupation of Tunisia and Cyprus respectively, both parts of the then declining Ottoman Empire
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1877· 1 entry
Giolitti was appointed to the Court of Audit and in 1882 to the Council of State
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1870· 1 entry
Moved to the Ministry of Finance, becoming a high official and working along with important members of the ruling Right, like Quintino Sella and Marco Minghetti
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1869· 1 entry
Giolitti moved to Calabria and was appointed as chief secretary of the Central Tax Commission
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1842· 2 entries
Born 1842-10-27.
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Giolitti was born on 27 October 1842 in Mondovì, a town in Piedmont, the main territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia, into an upper-class family.
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1802· 1 entry
He was the son of Giovenale Giolitti (1802–1843), who had been working in the avvocatura dei poveri, an office assisting poor citizens in both civil and criminal cases, and Enrichetta Plochiù (1808–1867), a member of a wealthy family of French origin.
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