1904 in Italy

none 1904 Events from the year 1904 in Italy. Kingdom of Italy Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946) Prime Minister – Giovanni Giolitti (1903–1905) Population – 33,237,000 Events thumb|right|This cartoon in the satirical magazine L'Asino in May 1911, described the policy of Giolitti: on the one hand, dressed in elegant suit, he reassures conservatives; on the other, with clothes less elegant, he is addressing the workers. (L'Asino, May 14, 1911)The Giolittian Era. During his second and third tenure as prime minister (1903–1905 and 1906–1909), Giovanni Giolitti courts the left and labour unions with social legislation, including subsidies for low-income housing, preferential government contracts for worker cooperatives, and old age and disability pensions. Economic expansion was secured by monetary stability, moderate protectionism and government support of production. Foreign trade doubled between 1900 and 1910, wages rose, and the general standard of living went up.Life World Library: Italy, by Herbert Kubly and the Editors of LIFE, 1961, p. 46 Nevertheless, the period was also marked by a sharp increase in the frequency and duration of industrial action, with major labour strikes. February February 17 – The opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, premieres at La Scala in Milan. It was withdrawn after a disastrous premiere and Puccini substantially rewrote it.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040218.2.54&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Madame Butterfly Gets Cool Reception – First Production of Puccini's Opera Given at Milan XXXI 142 18 February 1904 p. 3, col. 1 Los Angeles Herald 12 January 2022 California Digital Newspaper CollectionJenkins Chadwick http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/NYCO/butterfly/fiasco.html The Fiasco of Madama Butterfly's First Performance: Feb 17, 1904 New York City Opera Project: Madama Butterfly Columbia University 25 December 2021 April April 8–11 – At the Eighth Congress of the Italian Socialist Party in Bologna the revolutionary syndicalists led by Arturo Labriola and Enrico Ferri's left centre together win a clear majority, ending the cautious rapprochement of the reformist leader Filippo Turati with Giolitti to advance social reforms.Seton-Watson, Italy from liberalism to fascism, 1870–1925, p. 244 April 24 – Official visit of French president Émile Loubet to Rome. July July 4 – Piero Ginori Conti tests the first-ever geothermal power generator at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy.J.F. Luhr Earth 2003 Dorling Kindersley 205 1-4053-0018-3 It was a small generator that lit four light bulbs.G.N. Tiwari M.K. Ghosal Renewable Energy Resources: Basic Principles and Applications Alpha Science International Ltd. 2005 1-84265-125-0 September September 4 – During a crackdown on a miners' strike in Buggerru (it), Sardinia, three workers are killed and 20 injured. September 14 – In the small agricultural town of Castelluzzo (province of Trapani, Sicily), two peasants are killed and about 10 people wounded during a protest against the dissolution of a meeting of their local cooperative and the arrest of a socialist leader of that cooperative.Eccidio di Castelluzzo, domani cerimonia e convegno a cura della Cgil https://www.trapanisi.it/eccidio-di-castelluzzo-domani-cerimonia-e-convegno-a-cura-della-cgil/ Trapani Sì 16 September 2025 it September 16 – Start of the 1904 Italian general strike, making it the first general strike in Italian history. The strike was called by the Chambers of Labour in several cities in response to killings of striking workers in the preceding weeks.17 September 1904 Italian Socialists Begin Great Strike https://www.nytimes.com/1904/09/17/archives/italian-socialists-begin-great-strike-government-fights-movement.html The New York Times Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti refuses to intervene and this attitude prevents the movement to take revolutionary dimensions while the strike petered out.Clark, Modern Italy: 1871 to the present, p. 173 In response, Pope Pius X gives tacit permission to Catholic candidates to stand in parliamentary to counter the red menace.Clark, Modern Italy: 1871 to the present, p. 176 September 27 – Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti visits the German chancellor Bernhard von Bülow to allay concerns in Berlin by the French-Italian rapprochement in relation with the Triple Alliance. November November 6 – First round of the Italian general election.https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/11/07/101348613.pdf Italian Conservatives Gain; Power of Extreme Parties Diminished by Elections Yesterday The New York Times November 7, 1904 November 13 – Second round of the Italian general election. The "ministerial" left-wing bloc of the Historical Left led by Giovanni Giolitti remains the largest in Parliament, winning 339 of the 508 seats.Dieter Nohlen Nohlen D Stöver P 2010 Elections in Europe: A data handbook 1083 The papal ban on Catholics voting was relaxed for the first time, and three Catholics were elected.Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1031 Births February 3 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)1023 Luigi Dallapiccola April 10 – Nino Pavese, Italian actor (d. 1979)https://www.mymovies.it/persone/nino-pavese/10638/ Nino Pavese biografia Nino Pavese biography MYmovies.it it 14 February 2022 March 18, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220318232244/https://www.mymovies.it/persone/nino-pavese/10638/ live April 18 – Giuseppe Terragni, Italian Rationalist architect (d. 1943)http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb123818211 Notice de personne "Terragni, Giuseppe (1904-1943)" Person notice "Terragni, Giuseppe (1904-1943)" 5 September 2013 Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 18 February 2022 August 28 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980) November 25 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000) Deaths Emilio Comba, Waldensian pastor and historian (b. 1839) February 12 – Antonio Labriola, Italian Marxist theoretician (b. 1843) References Clark, Martin (2008). Modern Italy, 1871 to the present, Harlow: Pearson Education. 1-4058-2352-6. Seton-Watson Christopher Christopher Seton-Watson Italy from liberalism to fascism, 1870–1925 1967 London Methuen & Co Ltd https://archive.org/details/italyfromliberal0000seto 0-416-18940-7 External links 1904 Italy Category:Years of the 20th century in Italy