# Timeline of Salerno

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Salerno in the Campania region of Italy.

## Prior to 20th century

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* 197 BCE - Roman colony Salernum founded at site of former Etruscan town Irnthi.
* 79 CE - Salerno was buried by the rain of ash and debris of the eruption of Vesuvius that razed Pompeii and Herculaneum to the ground
* 5th-7th C. CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Salerno established.
* 646 CE - Salerno becomes part of the Lombard Duchy of Benevento.
* 774 CE - Duke Arechis II of Benevento relocates to Salerno.
* 9th C. - Schola Medica Salernitana (medical school) founded.
* 851 - Principality of Salerno established. List of princes of Salerno.
* 870s - Salerno besieged by Arab forces.
* 1076 - Salerno taken by forces of Norman Robert Guiscard.
* 1084 - Saint Matthew Cathedral consecrated by Pope Gregory VII.
* 1150 - University founded.
* 1194 - Salerno sacked by forces of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1260 - Port of Salerno construction begins.
* 1419 - Salerno becomes part of the Kingdom of Naples and administrative centre of its Principato Citeriore [it].
* 1578 - Salerno sacked by "Muslim pirates."
* 1656 - Plague.
* 1688 - Earthquake.
* 1694 - Earthquake.
* 1799 - Salerno becomes part of the French client Parthenopean Republic.
* 1817 - University closed.
* 1843 - Biblioteca Provinciale di Salerno [it] (library) founded.
* 1860 - Circondario di Salerno [it] (administrative region) established.
* 1866 - Naples–Salerno railway begins operating; Salerno railway station opens.
* 1872 - Teatro municipale Giuseppe Verdi (Salerno) [it] opens.
* 1875 - Frusta newspaper begins publication.
* 1895 - Salerno–Reggio Calabria railway in operation.
* 1896 - L'Eco newspaper begins publication.
* 1897 - Population: 37,310.

## 20th century

* 1902 - Ferrovia Salerno-Mercato San Severino [it] (railway) begins operating.
* 1911 - Population: 45,682.
* 1919 - U.S. Salernitana 1919 (football club) formed.
* 1920 - Società salernitana di storia patria [it] (history society) founded.
* 1926 - Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport established.
* 1936 - Population: 67,186.
* 1937 - Salerno trolleybus [it] begins operating.
* 1943 - 9 September: Salerno besieged by Allied forces during World War II.
* 1944 - Salerno is Capital of Italy for some months
** February: Governo Badoglio I & II [it] headquartered in Salerno during the Periodo costituzionale transitorio [it].
** April: Communist policy announcement [it] made in Salerno.
* 1946 - Festival del cinema di Salerno begins.
* 1954 - 25 October: Salerno flood [it].
* 1956 - Local election held; Alfonso Menna [it] becomes mayor (until 1970).
* 1961 - Population: 117,363.
* 1964 - Azienda Trasporti Autofiloviari Consorzio Salernitano [it] (transit entity) formed.
* 1968 - University of Salerno established.
* 1971 - Population: 155,498.
* 1982 - 26 August: Salerno massacre [it] occurs in the Torrione (Salerno) [it] quartiere.
* 1990 - Stadio Arechi (stadium) opens.
* 1993 - Vincenzo De Luca becomes mayor.
* 1998 - Parco del Mercatello [it] (park) opens.

## 21st century

* 2013
** Salerno metropolitan railway service begins operating.
** Population: 131,925.
* 2016 - Vincenzo Napoli becomes mayor.