# Timeline of Perugia

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Perugia in the Umbria region of Italy.

## Prior to 17th century

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* 310 BCE - Romans in power; settlement named "Perusia."
* 3rd century BCE - Etruscan walls [it] built.
* 216 and 205 BCE - Assisted Rome in the Hannibalic war.
* 90 BCE - Town "received Roman citizenship."
* 40 BCE - Perusia sacked during the Perusine War.
* 5th century CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Perugia established.
* 548 CE - Perugia besieged by forces of Ostrogoth Totila during the Gothic War (535–554).
* 10th century - Benedictine San Pietro abbey founded.
* 1139 - Perugia "recorded as a free comune."
* 1205 - Chiesa di San Costanzo (Perugia) [it] (church) rebuilt.
* 1216 - Papal election, 1216 held at Perugia.
* 1250 - Chiesa di San Francesco al Prato [it] (church) built (approximate date).
* 1264 - Papal election, 1264–65 held at Perugia.
* 1278 - Fontana Maggiore (fountain) erected in the Piazza Maggiore.
* 1285 - Papal election, 1285 held at Perugia.
* 1293 - Palazzo del Popolo construction begins.
* 1294 - Papal election, 1292–94 held at Perugia.
* 1304
** Papal conclave, 1304–05 held at Perugia.
** San Domenico church construction begins.
* 1308 - University of Perugia established.
* 1345 - Perugia Cathedral construction begins.
* 1348 - Plague.
* 1390 - Collegio della Mercanzia [it] (merchants' guild office) built in the Palazzo dei Priori.
* 1416 - Braccio da Montone in power.
* 1424 - Baglioni (family) in power.
* 1453 - Università Vecchia built on the Piazza del Sopramuro.
* 1457 - Collegio del Cambio (exchange guild office) built in the Palazzo dei Priori.
* 1461 - Oratorio di San Bernardino (Perugia) [it] facade constructed.
* 1475 - Printing press in operation.
* 1480 - Porta di San Pietro (Perugia) [it] (gate) built.
* 1490 - Perugia Cathedral completed.
* 1534 - Perugia "deprived of its privileges."
* 1540
** Salt War (1540).
** Porta Marzia [it] (gate) dismantled.
* 1543 - Rocca Paolina (fort) built.
* 1548 - Loggia dell'Angelo della Pace [it] built.
* 1561 - Accademia degli Insensati [it] founded.
* 1573
** Accademia del Disegno founded.
** Vincenzo Danti appointed city architect.
* 1587 - Perugia Cathedral consecrated.

## 17th-19th centuries

* 1623 - Biblioteca Augusta (library) opens.
* 1665 - Chiesa di San Filippo Neri (Perugia) [it] (church) built.
* 1720 - Orto Botanico dell'Università di Perugia (garden) established.
* 1723 - Teatro del Pavone [it] (theatre) opens.
* 1758 - Palazzo Antinori [it] built.
* 1762 - Montemorcino monastery built.
* 1781 - Teatro Morlacchi (theatre) opens.
* 1797 - Perugia was occupied by the French.
* 1798 - Perugia becomes part of the Trasimène (1798) [it] department of France.
* 1832 - Earthquake.
* 1838 - Earthquake.
* 1840 - Ancient Hypogeum of the Volumnus family rediscovered near Perugia.
* 1849
** Austrians in power.
** Cimitero monumentale di Perugia [it] (cemetery) established.
* 1854 - Earthquake.
* 1859 - 20 June: 1859 Perugia uprising.
* 1860
** Perugia becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy.
** Pasticceria Sandri [it] in business.
* 1863 - Pinacoteca Vannucci (museum) established.
* 1866 - Perugia railway station opens.
* 1891 - Teatro Turreno [it] (theatre) opens.
* 1899 - Tram begins operating.

## 20th century

* 1905 - A.C. Perugia (football club) formed.
* 1911 - Population: 65,805.
* 1943 - Perugia trollebus [it] begins operating.
* 1944 - 20 June: Allied forces enter city.
* 1961 - Perugia-Assisi Peace March [it] begins.
* 1974 - Istituto per la storia dell'Umbria contemporanea [it] (history society) formed.
* 1975 - Stadio Renato Curi (stadium) opens.
* 1983 - Corriere dell'Umbria newspaper begins publication.
* 1984 - 29 April: Umbria earthquake of 1984 [it].

## 21st century

* 2007 - 1 November: Murder of Meredith Kercher.
* 2008 - MiniMetro automated people mover system begins operating.
* 2011 - Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport terminal built.
* 2013 - Population: 162,986.
* 2014 - Perugia local election [it] held; Andrea Romizi becomes mayor.