1978 in Italy

none 1978 Events during the year 1978 in Italy Incumbents President – Giovanni Leone until 15 June; Sandro Pertini from 9 JulyCook Bernard A. Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia 2001 Taylor & Francis 978-0-8153-4058-4 974 https://books.google.com/books?id=hafLHZgZtt4C&pg=PA974 en Prime Minister – Giulio AndreottiGilbert Sari Italy's Cossiga Forms Coalition Government https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/08/05/italys-cossiga-forms-coalition-government/1a31bff4-57f8-4916-bede-3a2d0c7d8e8a/ Washington Post 7 October 2023 5 August 1979 Events 26 to 28 January – Sanremo Music Festival 1978: Matia Bazar band wins with the song "...e dirsi ciao". 31 January – Third Andreotti government falls after Italian Communist Party withdraws support.Tanner Special Henry 22 February 1979 Head of Small‐Italian Party Is Asked to Form Cabinet https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/22/archives/head-of-smallitalian-party-is-asked-to-form-cabinet.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20250122062632/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/22/archives/head-of-smallitalian-party-is-asked-to-form-cabinet.html 22 January 2025 30 December 2025 The New York Times 2, section A 13 March – Fourth Andreotti government formed (until March 1979). 16 March – Former prime minister Aldo Moro kidnapped – the apogee of Italy's Years of Lead.Iovene Franck 15 March 2018 https://www.thelocal.it/20180315/italy-remembers-aldo-moro live Remembering Aldo Moro, the former prime minister killed by terrorists during Italy's 'Years of Lead' The Local https://web.archive.org/web/20230807134037/https://www.thelocal.it/20180315/italy-remembers-aldo-moro 7 August 2023 7 August 2023 New Andreotti government obtains confidence vote. 7 May – 1977–78 Serie A ends: Juventus wins 18th title. 9 May – Moro's body was found in Rome. 13 May – Basaglia Law approved: gradual dismantling of psychiatric hospitals is initiated.De Girolamo Franco Basaglia, 1924–1980 American Journal of Psychiatry 165 8 968 August 2008 18676602 10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.07111761 etal The largest asylum was Mombello Psychiatric Hospital. 22 May – Law No. 194 is signed: Abortion in Italy becomes legal. 11 and 12 June – 1978 Italian referendums. 15 June – President Giovanni Leone resigns under pressure from Lockheed bribery scandal. 29 June to 8 July – 1978 Italian presidential election: President of the Chamber of Deputies Sandro Pertini was elected with 832 votes out of 1,011. He is president until 1985. 6 August – Pope Paul VI dies in Castel Gandolfo. 26 August – Cardinal Albino Luciani, the patriarch of Venice, elected pope – John Paul I. So far, 2026, last Italian pope. 21 September – The Tree of Wooden Clogs by Ermanno Olmi released. 28 September – Pope John Paul I dies in Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. 16 October – Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, the archbishop of Kraków, elected pope – John Paul II (until 2005). Births 28 January – Gianluigi Buffon, goalkeeper Barbara Labate, enterpreneur Deaths 9 May – Aldo Moro, former Prime Minister (b. 1916) 30 July – Umberto Nobile, Arctic explorer (b. 1885) 6 August – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897) 22 August – Ignazio Silone, politician and writer (b. 1900) 28 September – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912) 20 November – Giorgio de Chirico, artist (b. 1888) 28 November – Carlo Scarpa, arhitect (b. 1906) Lea Del Bo Rossi, medical researcher (b. 1903) See also List of Italian films of 1978 1978 in Italian television References 1978 Italy Italy Category:1970s in Italy