Timeline of Trapani

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Trapani, Sicily, Italy.

Prior to 20th century

395 CE - Drepanum becomes part of the Eastern Roman Empire.^[1]
827 CE - Muslim conquest of Sicily; town called "Tarabanis"^[1]
1097 - Town taken by forces of Norman Roger I of Sicily^[1]
1266 - Battle of Trapani
1282 - Aragonese in power^[1]
1284 - Naval siege of Trapani during the War of the Sicilian Vespers^[2]
1332 - Madonna dell' Annunziata church built near town^[3]
1421 - Trapani Cathedral construction begins.^[3]
1432 - Trapani besieged by forces of Louis III of Anjou^[2]
1570 - Population: 16,286^[2]
1726 - Earthquake^[4]^(it)
1748 - Population: 17,311^[2]
1760 - Madonna of Trapani church rebuilt.
1798 - Population: 24,330^[2]
1820 - Uprising against Bourbon rule^[2]
1830 - Biblioteca Fardelliana [it] (library) opens.^[5]
1844 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Trapani established^[6]
1848 - Sicilian revolution of 1848^[3]
1849 - Teatro Garibaldi (theatre) built^[1]
1861 - Circondario di Trapani [it] (administrative region) established^{[citation needed]}
1880 - Stazione di Trapani [it] (railway station) opens.
1897 - Population: 49,992^[7]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Storia" (in Italian). Comune di Trapani. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Treccani 1937.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Britannica 1910.
^ Mario Baratta [in Italian] (1901). I terremoti d'Italia [Earthquakes in Italy] (in Italian). Turin: Fratelli Bocca. pp. 839–840. (includes chronology)
^ "Biblioteca Fardelliana di Trapani". Comune di Trapani. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Italy". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590550 – via HathiTrust.
^ "Italy". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1913. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368374.
^ "Resident Population". Demo-Geodemo. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica. Retrieved 10 January 2017.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

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Giuseppe Maria Di Ferro [in Italian] (1825). Guida per gli stranieri in Trapani.
Pagliani, Stefano; Boccardo, Gerolamo (1887), "Trepani", Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian), vol. 22 (6th ed.)
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