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Prior to 17th century

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• 62 BCE - Battle of Pistoria fought near town.
• 5th C. CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Pistoia established.
• 595 CE - Cattedrale di San Zeno dedicated.
• 8th C. CE - Sant'Andrea church, likely date of origin.
• 772 CE - Walls of Pistoia [it] built (approximate date).
• 12th C. - Church of Sant' Andrea expanded.
• 1108 - Pistoia Cathedral damaged by fire.
• 1117 - Pistoia "defeated by Lucca."
• 1150 - City walls expanded (approximate date).
• 1240 - City walls rebuilt (approximate date).
• 1294 - San Domenico church construction begins.
• 1302-1306 - Pistoia besieged by Florentine and Luccan forces.
• 1325 - Luccan Castruccio Castracani in power.
• 1348 - Black Death plague.
• 1351 - Surrendered to Florence.
• 1353 - Palazzo degli Anziani (Pistoia) [it] expanded (approximate date).
• 1359 - Battistero di San Giovanni in corte (baptistery) built.
• 1368 - Palazzo Pretorio (Pistoia) [it] built.
• 1401 - Pistoia becomes part of the Florentine Republic.
• 1494 - Basilica of Our Lady of Humility construction begins.
• 1495 - Madonna dell'Umiltà construction begins.

17th-19th centuries

• 1615 - Palazzo Ganucci Cancellieri refurbished.
• 1630 - Plague outbreak.
• 1642 - Accademia dei Risvegliati founded.
• 1643 - Pistoia besieged by papal forces.
• 1650 - Palazzo Marchetti sold.
• 1694 - Teatro Manzoni (Pistoia) [it] (theatre) built.
• 1696 - Biblioteca Forteguerriana (library) founded.
• 1726 - Biblioteca Fabroniana (library) founded.
• 1786
  • Religious Synod of Pistoia held.
  • Palazzo Bracciolini commissioned.
• 1795 - Palazzo Rossi construction completed.
• 1849 - Pistoia occupied by Austrians.
• 1851 - Pistoia railway station opens.
• 1860 - Circondario di Pistoia [it] (administrative region) established.
• 1861 - Pistoia becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.
• 1864 - Porrettana railway begins operating.
• 1881 - Population: 54,920.

20th century

• 1906 - Population: 68,131.
• 1921 - U.S. Pistoiese 1921 (football club) formed.
• 1927 - Administrative Province of Pistoia created.
• 1931 - Population: 70,397.
• 1943 - October: Bombing of Pistoia in World War II.
• 1966
  • "Superachitettura" exhibit held.
  • Stadio Comunale (stadium) opens.
• 1969 - Copit [it] (transit entity) established.
• 1970 - Zoo di Pistoia established.
• 1971
  • Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie [it] in business.
  • Population: 93,185.
• 1974 - Istituto Storico della Resistenza (historical institute) established.
• 1980 - Pistoia Blues Festival begins.
• 1992 - Local election [it] held; Lido Scarpetti [it] becomes mayor.

21st century

• 2001 - AnsaldoBreda engineering firm in business.
• 2002 - Local election [it] held; Renzo Berti [it] becomes mayor.
• 2003 - Associazione Storia e Città (history society) formed.
• 2005 - Blubus [it] (transit entity) established.
• 2007 - Biblioteca San Giorgio [it] (library) opens.
• 2009 - Il Funaro [it] (cultural entity) established.
• 2012 - Local election held; Samuele Bertinelli becomes mayor.
• 2013 - Population: 88,904.
• 2015 - 31 May: 2015 Tuscan regional election held.
• 2017 - Local election held; Alessandro Tomasi becomes mayor.

See also

• History of Pistoia [it]
• List of mayors of Pistoia
• List of bishops of Pistoia
• History of Tuscany

Other cities in the macroregion of Central Italy:

• Timeline of Ancona, Marche region
• Timeline of Arezzo, Tuscany region
• Timeline of Florence, Tuscany
• Timeline of Livorno, Tuscany
• Timeline of Lucca, Tuscany
• Timeline of Perugia, Umbria region
• Timeline of Pisa, Tuscany
• Timeline of Prato, Tuscany
• Timeline of Rome, Lazio region
• Timeline of Siena, Tuscany

References

1. ^ Britannica 1910.
2. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
3. ^ Kleinhenz 2004.
4. ^ Domenico 2002.
5. "La storia di Pistoia dalle origini al 1351" (in Italian). Comune di Pistoia. Retrieved 8 January 2017. (includes timeline)
6. ^ "La storia di Pistoia dal 1351 ai giorni nostri" (in Italian). Comune di Pistoia. Retrieved 8 January 2017. (includes timeline)
7. ^ Treccani 1935.
8. "Storia della biblioteca". Biblioteca Comunale Forteguerriana (in Italian). Comune di Pistoia. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
9. ^ "(Comune: Pistoia)". Anagrafe delle biblioteche italiane [it] (Registry of Italian Libraries) (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
10. Gino Moliterno, ed. (2005) . Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. ISBN 0203440250.
11. "Italian Peninsula, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
12. "Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell'età contemporanea in provincia di Pistoia" (in Italian). Retrieved 8 January 2017.
13. "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 7 January 2017.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Misplaced Pages.

Bibliography

in English

• Edward Herbert Bunbury (1872) . "Pistoia". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cur.
• "Pistoia". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. hdl:2027/njp.32101065312934.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• "Pistoia" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 653.
• "Pistoia", Northern Italy (14th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913
• David Herlihy (1967). Medieval and Renaissance Pistoia: the Social History of an Italian Town, 1200-1430. Yale University Press. OCLC 409178.
• Stephen J. Milner (2000). "Statutory division and supra-communal clientage in Pistoia". In William J. Connell; Andrea Zorzi (eds.). Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power. Cambridge University Press. pp. 312+. ISBN 0521591112.
• Roy Domenico (2002). "Tuscany: Pistoia". Regions of Italy: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood. pp. 337+. ISBN 0313307334.
• Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. (2004). "Pistoia". Medieval Italy: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 915+. ISBN 0415939291.
• Sarah Tiboni (2013). "Pistoia: a case study". In Frances Andrews (ed.). Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107044265.

in Italian

• M. Salvi. Historia di Pistoia. 1656-1662
• I. Fioravanti. Memorie storiche d. città di Pistoia, Lucca 1758
• G. Tigri. Pistoia ed il suo territorio, 1853
• Vittorio Capponi (1874). Bibliografia pistoiese. Pistoia: Rossetti. (Bibliography)
• "Pistoja". Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian). Vol. 17 (6th ed.). Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese. 1884. hdl:2027/nnc1.cu08476845.
• Carlo Lozzi (1887). "Storie de'Municipii: Pistoia". Biblioteca istorica della antica e nuova Italia (in Italian). Vol. 2. Imola. OCLC 12117233.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Bibliography)
• Mascarucci, Pietro Osvaldo; Chiti, Alfredo; Santoli, Quinto; Chiappelli, Luigi; Volpi, Gugulielmo (1899), Bullettino storico pistoiese (in Italian), ISSN 0007-5809 1899-
• O. Giglioli. Pistoia nelle sue opere d'arte, Firenze 1904
• A. Chiappelli. Storia del teatro in Pistoia dalle origini alla fine del sec. XVIII, 1913
• "Pistoia", Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) (in Italian), 1935

External links

• Archivio Storico del Comune di Pistoia (city archives)
• Archivio di Stato di Pistoia (state archives)
• Items related to Pistoia, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Pistoia, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

• Pistoia
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• History of Tuscany