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44 BC – Galus Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. It was in revenge for the defeat of the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus, at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

0000 - Jesus Christ was born and lived

AD 79 – Two cities were destroyed by the eruption of mount Vesuvius. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

27 Aug AD 79 – Mount Vesuvius eurputed on Pompei and Herculaneum, causing 15,000 deaths. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history p11).

300-313 AD – The Tetrarchs, were the four men who jointly ruled the Roman Empire in AD 300. The system collapsed in 313 AD, divisions of Eastern and Western Roman Empires. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

AD 315 – “Virtual Rome” shows the city as it appeared in AD 315, website. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

27 Aug 410 – Rome was overrun by Visigoth under Alaricl. For the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the western Roman empire. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history p11).

568 – Albion founded the Lombard kingdom in Italy. (ehistory timeline).

26 Sept 1181 – Born Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of Franciscian. Patron saint of animals. Died 1226. Chch Star 26 Sept 2014.

1349 – L’Aquila. Timeline of earthquakes.

5 Dec 1456 – Naples 35,000 killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1461 – L’Aquila. Timeline of earthquakes.

1519 – In Florence Italy knitted waistcoats and knitted stockings were worn. Gloves made of silk. Knitting in silk. In the 16^th century knitting flourished in Florence. (Knitting. Joanna MacDonald ©1962 UK)

4-15 Oct 1582 – Italy end Julian calendar 4 Oct 1582, beginning Gregorian calendar 15 Oct 1582. (Ancestry March April 2007 p21).

30 July 1626 – Naples 10,000 killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

11 Jan 1693 – Sicily 60,000 died. Quake.Rapture Ready.

1703 – L’Aquila. Timeline of earthquakes.

1707-1813 – Spain invaded Naples in 1707. The roles and rituals of the honoured society came from Freemasons and other Masonic sects. Masonic organisation was integral to the ways of politics in the early 19^th century. Masonic groups were opened to Fascists and were banned in 1813. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie ©2011 Italy).

1738 – In Naples, the Museo di Capodimonte was built in 1738, for the collection that Charles VII inherited from his mother, Elisaetta Farnese. A storehouse of antiquities. Corruption, crime and poverty ran deep in Naples. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

4 Feb 1783 – 50,000 killed quake in Calabria. Rapture Ready.

26 July 1805 – Naples and Calabra 26,000 killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1820-1905 – Palermo Italy marriages 1820-1895 and births 1896-1905, in Italian. (NZ society of genealogists inc. Nov Dec 2011 p252).

9 Jan 1848 – A peoples uprising took place in Palermo Sicily. (Timeline internet).

1851-1861 – Corruption, Camorra and the prison in Turin 17 March 1861. Naples had half a million population in the 1850’s. Naples did not hide its poor away. Slum dwellers, crowds of beggars, and the child pickpockets of Naples. Naples was so vast and so poor 1857. Corruption, police and bribes 1850’s Camorra and extortion, sex slavery and gambling. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie ©2011 Italy).

1853-1862 – The Camorra by Monnier was published in 1862. A guide to the Neopolitan honoured society of the 19^th century. Oct 1853. Liborin Romano asked the Camorra to police Naples. Romano like is father was a Freemason, as were other leaders and Garibaldi too.(Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie ©2011 Italy).

1857-1861 – April 1861 the Camorra began in prison, archives research in Naples. In 1857 the Bourbon government burned the police archives, so there are holes in the history records. Camorra is a Spanish word, Naples. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie. ©2011 Italy).

16 Dec 1857 – Naples 11,000 killed 6.9 quake Rapture Ready.

6 Feb 1858 – Frightful earthquake in Italy. New Hampshire US.

1860 – Expedition of the Thousand to Sicily. Victor Emanuel was King of Piedmont Sardinia and future King of Italy. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

1860 – The last Bourbon King of Naples left the capital on 6 Sept 1860. Garibaldi took over Naples, extortion and smuggling. 21 Oct 1860 Naples. 16 Nov 1860 Mass arrests of Camorra. 3 Oct 1862 prisoners. 21 Nov 1860 Camorra in the prisons. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie ©2011 Italy).

1860 – From Palermo, lemons were shipped to the US. In 1860 Palermo’s lemon plantations were the most profitable in Europe. The mafia of Palermo ran protection rackets. The mafia manipulated and infiltrated the citrus fruit industry. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie ©2011 Italy).

2 April 1860 – The first Italian Parliament met at Turin. Italy was unified. The Rothschild banking empire bankrolled Italy’s independence. (internet).

May June 1860 – Camorra Naples slums and sex slavery. 11 May 1860 Thousands of red shirts invaded Sicily. The forces took control of the Sicilian capital Palermo. Corrupt police in Naples. Mobs visited the city’s 12 police stations and broke down the doors, so the Neopolitan police ceased to exist 25 June 1860. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie ©2011 Italy).

May Sept 1860 - In May 1860 1,000 red shirt volunteers, the Sicilian capital Palermo. In early Sept 1860 Naples. Italy would be, for the first time in history, one country, Italy would be unified. Camorra power in prisons, the society or honoured society. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie ©2011 Italy).

1865 – The Camorra was part of a patronage network. In 1865 the mafia of Sicily invaded Italy governing institutions in Naples, so thoroughly as to make it impossible to tell where the mafia ended and the state began. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie ©2011 Italy).

1866 – One of the main reasons why the Sicilian mafia was for so long Italy’s most powerful criminal organisation was because of its ability to perpetuate the illusion that it did not exist. The illusion was first created in the Palermo revolt of 1866. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie ©2011 Italy).

16 Sept 1866 – Sicily became part of Italy in 1860. Palermo in 1866, the Conca d’Oro was the most lawless place on the island. It was the birthplace of the Sicilian mafia. 16 Sept 1866 criminal records were burned at police stations and law courts. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie (c)2011 Italy).

1871-76 – 1876 commission of inquiry, chief of police of Palemo was Giuseppe Albanese. In 1871 Albanese arranged several murders in concert with the mafia. Lack of evidence. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie (c)2011 Italy).

10 Sept 1891 – Frank Garofalo born 10 Sept 1891 Castellammare Del Golfo Sicily. He arrived in New York city aged 29 on 26 May 1921 on the ship “SS Providence”. In June 1968 Frank Garofalo disappeared. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

28 Dec 1908 – Messina 70,000 killed 7.5 quake. Rapture Ready.

28 Dec 1908 – 100,000 killed. Messina Sicily. Timeline of earthquakes.

14 Jan 1909 – The Italian earthquake. Aberdeen Daily journal Scotland.

12 Nov 1909 – Alfred Joseph Embarrato born 12 Nov 1909 Adrano Sicily. Died 21 Feb 2001 Fairfax Virginia. Immigrated to New York city in 19 Nov 1914 aged 5 on the “Taormina”. (Manhattan mafia guide Eric Ferarra ©2011 US).

1915-1921 – In 1918 tens of thousands of soldiers came back from the war. Italy entered the war in 1915. In 1919 Mussolini and the Socialists were the largest parties in the chamber of deputies. Italy’s parliament in Rome. Unrest continued into 1920, in 1921 the Socialists lost a third of their seats in the chamber of deputies and the Fascists won 38 seats. Among the new deputies was Mussolini. (The mafia at war. Tim Newark ©2007 Italy).

13 Jan 1915 – Avezzano 29,800 killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

8 July 1915 – German spies in Italy. The Times London UK.

19 Oct 1917 – Italian politics. Dominion. Papers Past NZ.

19 Oct 1917 – Italian parliament. Colonist. Papers Past NZ.

23 April 1919 – Socialist disorders in Italy. Hawera Normanby Star. Papers Past NZ.

23 April 1919 – Disorders in Italy. Colonist. Papers Past NZ.

4 March 1920 – Italian Socialist envoy. Evening Post. Papers Past NZ.

June 1921 – Economic and political unrest rocked Italy. Followers of Benito Mussolini clashed with leftist strikers. US ambassador Robert Johnson. Richard Child and Warren G Hardy ambassadors to Italy. Mussolini defenders included Thomas Lamont of JP Morgan. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

May Oct 1922 – In May 1922, 20,000 Fascists invaded Bologna, the Socialists increased violence and general strikes in major cities in northern Italy. The Fascists broke the strikes. Black shirts of Mussolini, the centre of government in Rome. In Oct 1922 the Fascists took control of the towns and government buildings in northern Italy. 26,000 Fascists marched onto Rome. (The mafia at war. Tim Newark (c)2007 Italy).

Nov 1922 – Cesare Mori, the Fascists in power. He resigned his office in Bari and went to Florence. Cesare Mori spent the next 18 months writing his first book about the mafia in Sicily. An account of the mafia was published in 1933. Mussolini took power in 1922, a speech to the chamber of deputies 16 Nov 1922. (The mafia at war. Tim Newark ©2007 Italy).

11 May 1924 – Mussolini went to Sicily. Fascist leader Alfredo Cucco speech at Agrigento, Mussolini. A Mafioso called Don Ciccio Cuccia drove in the same car as Mussolini. (The mafia at war. Tim Newark ©2007 Italy).

June 1924 – Murder of left wing leader Giacomo Matteotti. 5 black shirts put him into a car, went to a block of flats, beat him to death and dumped him outside Rome. (The mafia at war. Tim Newark. ©2007 Italy).

1927-29 – In 1928 half of all Chicago’s Italian immigrants were from Sicily. From 1927 to 1929 there were major trials of the mafia. Hundreds of mafiosi were jailed in Palermo. There were 223 murder in 1922 and only 5 in 1928. Kidnappings had disappeared. In 1928 Richard Washburn Child was a former American ambassador to Italy. (The mafia at war. Tim Newark ©2007 Italy).

1930 – Mount Storomboli erupted and hurled 30 ton rocks onto houses 3km away caused a tidal wave as the island mountain rose. (PacDisc spring 96 p30 timelines internet)

23 July 1930 – Earthquake struck Ariano 1,500 people were killed (mc 7/23/02 timelines internet).

23 July 1930 – Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed. (Christchurch Star NZ).

23 July 1930 – Ariano 1,500 killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1943 – Invasion of Sicily. Lucky Luciano, the American invasion restored the mafia to its pre-Fascist-era power, and left them the de facto government of much of Italy. (Money and power ©2001 S Denton R Morris US).

1943 – American and British members of TICOM in occupied Italy. After the Italian surrender in 1943, there were 80 Italian code breakers under major Barbieri continued to work for the Germans at a station near Brescia in northern Italy. British captain Edmund Wilson had conversations with commander Cianchi head of the Italian cryptographic bureau in Rome in 1943. (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

16 Oct 1943 – Jews in Rome are rounded up with over 1,000 sent to Auschwitz. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

March 1944 – Mount Vesuvius most serious recent eruption, killed 26 people and shattered dozens of aircraft mid air. (History Today. March 2013 UK).

October 1944 – March 1945 – The Nazis were facing defeat in Europe as the Allies pushed towards victory. Angleton was transferred to Rome Italy as the commanding officer off special counter intelligence unit 2. A detachment of US and UK personel,

activated towards the end of the war to arrest enemy agents. In March 1945 he was promoted to first lieutenant and made chief of X-2 for all of Italy. At age 27 he was the youngest X-2 branch chief in all of OSS. He was the only American in Italy cleared to share the intelligence secrets of the top secret Ultra. Allied victory in Europe in May 1945.

1945 – Summer, American military were sent to bases in Italy. A major American military base was in Pomigliano Italy, north of Naples. (Ancestry July August 2007 p66).

1946 – The history of the Jews of Italy. Cecil Roth. Jewish publication society of America. Sicilian Jewry.

End Oct 1946 – An Irgun cell in Italy bombed the British embassy in Rome. In June 1947 the Stern gang, two waves of bombs were posted from underground cells in Italy. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

Feb 1947 – British operation called Embarras. SOE personnel attempted to limpet mine the Jewish refugee ships to disable them before they could set sail. 1947 they mined five ships in Italian ports, mining boats containing Holocaust survivors. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

19 December 1947 – One of the first directives passed was NSC 4/A ordered Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoeter, the new director of the CIA to use covert methods to prevent a Communist victory in Italy. The elections of 1948 were a target with propaganda, secret payments and training equipment. (Cold war ©1993 M Walker).

1948 – Elections in Italy. The Communist party got 31% of the vote (Econ 6/11/11 sr p9 timelines internet).

1 Jan 1954 – Antonio Zagari was born. His father was Giacomo Zagari who led the Ndrangheta cell family. The son of a boss grew up near Varese by Italy’s border with Switzerland. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie. ©2011 Italy).

1958 – A new law shut down state controlled brothels. (SFC 9/25/00 pa12 timelines internet).

1961 – The Fiat cars were called Zhigulis in Russia and Ladas when they went for export. Rolling out of a factory called Togliatti in Italy. A KGB correspondent in Rome Vladimir Volodya Yermakov of Pravda. A KGB journalist Valya Kovanoiv in Italy. Leonid Sergeyevich Kolosov was a KGB agent in Rome in the mid 1960’s. The KGB was directing movimento sociale hiliano MSI and Enrico Berlinguer of the Italian Communist party. (Under cover lives ©1998 H Womack).

1962-66 – A deal between Italy and the Soviet Union whereby Fiat helped them build a giant car factory on the river Volga at a place called Togliatti, after the Italian Communist party leader Palmiro Togliatti. In 1962 Mario Alicata was editor of the Communist newspaper Unita. In 1963 the left was led by Enrico Berlinguer who seized power in Italy. The US had military bases in Italy. Building an auto plant to produce cheap cars for the Soviet market. Fiat was the Soviet governments partner. In spring 1966 a study of Fiat by Soviet journalist Marietta Shaginyan .Villorio Valetta was general director of Fiat in Italy. A general strike was held. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).

26 January 1962 – Lucky Luciano dies of a heart attack in Naples Italy, possible poisoning. (Wiki organised crime timeline).

13 June 1962 – Simone Scozzan underboss of the Los Angeles crime family is deported to Italy. (Wiki organised crime timeline).

October 1962 – At the beginning of the 1960’s countries benefiting from the Marshall plan were banned from supplying certain goods to the Soviet Union. Drilling equipment for oil and gas, and pipes to carry fuel. Enrico Mattei supplied pipes in exchange for Soviet gas. He had plans to supply the Soviet Union with more equipment in exchange for Soviet oil. In 1967 a journalist from local paper Ora said Mauro de Mauro was investigating the murder of the Italian king of oil. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).

28 Oct 1962 – The plane of Enrico Mattai, Italian industry figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances. Historyorb.com.

July 1964 – 76 – Prosecutor general Villorio Occorsio said the there was a plot code named Piano Solo, to seize power in Italy. Many people who knew about Piano Solo died unnatural deaths. Found shot or were involved in suspicious car accidents. Occorsio was murdered in 1976. Nicola Gentile died in December 1964 of a heart attack in Sicily. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).

23 July 1968 – El Al airliner from Rome to Tel Aviv was hijacked to Algiers. The hostages were held for five weeks then released in return for two Palestinians, one Syrian hijacker and 16 prisoners.

29 August 1969 – TWA flight 840 from Rome to Athens was hijacked to Damascus it was destroyed after the hostages were freed. Injuries unknown.

August 1972 – El Al Rome baggage car bomb.

16 August 1972 – El Al flight Rome to Tel Aviv bomb in luggage compartment. Two suspects were arrested in Rome then freed.

4 April 1973 – Attack on an El Al plane at Rome was foiled. Two people were arrested and deported to Lebanon.

27 April 1973 – A civilian clerk was murdered at an El Al desk at Rome airport by Palestinians.

17 June 1973 – A car bomb exploded near Rome El Al desk. Two Arabs were injured and freed without trial.

5 September 1973 – A planned missile attack at Rome airport was foiled. Five Palestinians were arrested. Two were released on bail with no show for trial.

17 December 1973 – Rome airport attack and hijacking. Five attackers hit a Pan Am 707 with grenades. They herded five Italian hostages into a Lufthansa airliner and killed an Italian customs agent, then forced the plane to fly to Beirut.

17 December 1973 – Attack and hijack at Rome airport. Five terrorists pulled weapons from their luggage in the terminal building, killing two people. Then they attacked a Pan Am 707 bound for Beirut and Tehran, destroying it with grenades and killing 29 people, including four senior Moroccan officials and 14 American employees of Aramco. Then they herded five Italian hostages into a Lufthansa airliner and killed an Italian customs agent as he tried to escape. Then they forced the pilot to fly to Beirut. No group claimed responsibility.

Late 1970s – Intel news. 28 April 2014. Ian Allen. Israeli spy Jacob Yakuba Cohen was for three years in Milan Italy.

1976 – Soviet defector Golitsyn’s daughter died of a drug overdose in Italy.

6 May 1976 – Earthquake in northern Italy near the Austrian Yugoslav borders. More than 1,000 people were killed and 80,000 left homeless. (Timeline internet).

1978 – The Italian red brigades kidnapped and murdered the former Italian PM Aldo Moro. Their financial manager was Giuseppe Alessandrini, a businessman. Nicola Gentile was a mafia KGB in Italy who had lived in the US. (Undercover lives ©1998 H Womack).

16 March 1978 – Kidnapping of Italian PM Aldo Moro. He was seized by the red brigade and assassinated 55 days later. Two people were killed.

20 March 1979 – In Rome the mafia killed Mino Pecorelli a magazine editor and journalist (timelines internet).

20 March 1979 – Carmine mino Pecorelli a 50 year old journalist was assassinated in his office in the via Orazio in Rome. Mafia suspected. Unsolved crime. (The annals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

23 November 1980 – 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes in southern Italy (AP 11/23/27 timelines internet).

23 Nov 1980 – 2,600 killed, series of quakes. Timeline of earthquakes.

1981 – The terror network. The secret war of international terrorism. Claire Sterling. London UK Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Summer 1981 – Pope John Paul assassination attempt. One person was wounded.

24 February 1981 – A machine gun attack in Italy wounded five people.

13 May 1981 – An agent named Mehmet Ali Agca, a young Turk, who may have plotted to kill Walesa in a January 1981 visit to Rome. He did shoot and almost kill the Pope in St Peters square on 13 May 1981. Agca had ties to the Bulgarian intelligence. The Bulgarians needed Moscows approval. (Cold war ©2005 Gaddis).

13 May 1981 – Mehmet Ali Agca shot pope John Paul 4 times, the pope survived. Evidence that Agca had been working for the Bulgarian intel service on behalf of the KGB. (the annals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

1983 – Mafia peasants and great estates. Society in traditional Calabria. Pino Arlacchi.

1984 – Assassination in Rome of Leamon Hunt Un DG.

25 October 1984 – A diplomat from the UAE was assassinated in Rome.

1985 – Authorities arrested a group of kidnappers who were abducting children from gypsy families for sale abroad to Italians and Americans in Rome and Paris. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe. ©2007).

1985-91 – A mafia drug war this time claimed the lives of about 600 people. Giovanni Tegano a senior mafia in Reggio Calabria was a key participant. (Econ 5/8/10/54, internet).

23 September 1985 – Italian journalist Giancarlo Siani (born 1959) was killed after he wrote investigative reports about the mafia in Naples daily ll Mattino. (Timelines internet)

7 October 1985 – Achille Lauro hijacking. Four Palestinian liberation front terrorists seized the Italian cruise liner in the eastern Mediterranean sea. They took more than 700 hostages. One US passenger was killed before the Egyptian government offered the terrorists safe haven in return for the hostages freedom. One person was killed and three others wounded. The CIA linked these terrorist acts to Libya.

27 December 1985 – Airport attacks in Rome and Vienna. Four gunmen belonging to the Abu Nidal organisation attacked the El Al and TWA ticket counters at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport with grenades and automatic rifles. Thirteen people were killed and 75 wounded before Italian police and Israeli security guards killed three of the gunmen and captured the fourth. Rome airport bomb.

27 December 1985 – Assailants open fire with automatic weapons and throw grenades at the check in counters of USD airliner TWA and Israeli carrier El Al at Fiumicino international airport in Rome killing 16 and injuring 80.

27 December 1985 – Two terrorist groups with automatic weapons and hand grenades attacked civilian airports in Rome and Vienna. 132 people were killed and wounded including 7 Americans. (Inside the NSC ©1988 C Menges).

1986 – James Edward Miller. The US and Italy 1940-1950 the politics of diplomacy and stabilization. Chapel Hill uni of north Carolina press.

10 February 1986 The largest mafia trial in history with 474 defendants opened in Palermo Italy. (HN 2/10/97 internet).

2 April 1986 – Two US passengers aboard a TWA Boeing 727 from Rome to Athens were killed, by the explosion of a bomb placed under a seat. Nine others were injured.

14 April 1988 – Naples USO attack. The organisation of Jihad brigades exploded a car bomb outside a USO club in Naples Italy killing one US sailor.

Late 1989 – BNL officials met with US ambassador to Italy regarding the BNL scandal.

1990 – In Naples $60 million disappeared in incomplete construction sites for the soccer world cup. (timelines internet).

1990s – In the 1990s Ndranghetisi, European cocaine market dealing with South American cartels. Ndrangheta were in Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and other places. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie. ©2011 Italy.)

19 July 1992 – Paolo Dorsellino, an Italian anti-mafia judge, was murdered by the mafia. (MC 7/19/02 internet).

1993 – The boss of bosses, from Palermo, the island’s capital, half of the Cosa Nostra and half of them were based in Palermo. The Palermo commission of Cosa Nostra met in 1993. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie. ©2011 Italy).

8 January 1993 – Sicily journalist Beppe Alfano (born 1945) was killed by the mafia (timelines internet).

27 May 1993 – Italian police arrested mafia boss Benedetto “Nitto” Santapaola. (timelines internet).

1994 – A concise history of Italy. Christopher Duggan. Google books.

1994 – Roberto Pannunzi Italian mafia was arrested in Colombia. He has links to Colombian cartels for trade in cocaine. He was extradited to Italy and released. Heart attack disappeared in 2009. (timelines internet).

1995 – Italian genealogical records and ecclesiastical. Trafford R Cole google books Ancestry inc POBox 476 Salt Lake city Utah 841100476 USA.

1995 – Italian genealogical records and how to use them. Italian rcord keeping history and development. Trafford R Cole (google books).

1995 – The Italian port Gioia Tauro began handling container ships. The local mafia ‘Ndranghetta extorted $1.50 for every container. (timelines internet).

1 May 1995 – Mafia fighting in Italy. The New York Times. In 1992 Salvatore Toto Riina, the boss of bosses, life sentences from 1992, 94, killings, homocide rates fell.

1996 – PM Giulio Andreotti went on trial for allegedly turning to the mafia to kill journalist Mino Pecorelli in 1979 (timelines internet).

1996 – The Sicilian mafia the business of private protection. Diego Gambetta.

1997 – Six Naples mafia were sentenced to life terms for the murder of journalist Giancarlo Siani in Naples 1985 (timelines internet)

26 September 1997 – In Sicily a court convicted 24 mafia for the 1992 bombing of anti-mafia prosecuter Salvatore Toto Riina (timelines internet)

1998 – Mafia money and politics in Sicily 1950-1997 Rene Seindal.

1998-99 – Defendants in the 1999 trial in Cairo, against the Islamic Jihad Egyptian terror group, provided insights into the Arab Afghan network in Albania. Most of them were employed by Islamic charities in Tirana. Shawki Salama Mustafa the Egyptian that headed al-Qaeda’s Albanian cell ran a racket in Tirana forging identities, passports and birth certificates, which he leaned in 1994 in Sudan. A forging business. Ahmed Ibrahim al-Sayed al-Naggar the Jihad member who was tied to bin Laden in Albania. Smuggling arms and drugs into Europe. They established business ventures with the Italian mafia, which took responsibility for sale and distribution of drugs. Albania became a transhipment point in the drug trade from Afghanistan to Europe.

11 February 1998 – President Yeltsin visited Italy for 3 days $5 billion in trade and investment contracts (timeline internet).

2000 – The anti mafia. Italy’s fight against organised crime. Alison Jamieson. New York St Martins press Worldcat database.

22 Aug 2000 – Italian murders spark calls to name paedophiles. Rory Carroll. The Guardian London UK.

2001 – A history of Italian law. Carlo Calisse. 1921 fascist government 13 Jan 1925 fascist. Google books.

29 July 2002 – Convicted man loses fight to avoid deportation to Italy. Campbell Roderick. The Canberra Times ACT

2003 – Mafia brotherhoods. Organised crime Italian style. Ndrangheta. Letizia Paoli ebook Oxford New York uni press Worldcat database.

2004 – Cosa Nostra. A history of the Sicilian mafia. John Dickie. Google books.

28 Jan 2004 – Italy police cocaine ring. Xinhua news agency. The Colombian drug cartels and the Ndrangheta.

2006 – Camorristi, politicians the post war Naples. Felia Allum. Leads UK Montana uni press Worldcat database.

2006 – The mafia murdered Giovanni Falcone a prosecuting judge in Sicily who had worked with the FBI’s Louis Freeh on the pizza connection case. Freeh went to Palermo Sicily. When boss of bosses Bernardo Provenzano was arrested in Corleone in 2006 he had been on the run for many years. (FBI a history. Rodris Jeffreys Jones ©2007 US).

2007 – Crime and justice in medieval Italy. Trevor Dean. Prosecuted crime and sex crimes. Google books.

2007 – The mafia at war. Allied collusion with the mafia. Tim Newark. Geohill books. Declassified intel documents, Eisenhower and the mafia during the allied invasion of Siciliy in 1943. ISBN 978-1-85367-672-7.

24 Oct 2007 – The Mafia is Italy’s biggest commercial business. The Independent London UK.

2008 – Gomorrah, a personal journey into the violent empire of Naples organise crime system. Roberto Saviano. Virginia Jewiss. Michael Kramrer. Old Sybrook Tantor media Worldcat database.

2009-2010 – In July 2010 the police arrested more than 300 men, including an 80 year old Domenico Oppedisano who was elected to the Ndrangheta high office in Aug 2009. Discoveries in many unexplored archives. (Blood brotherhoods. John Dickie ©2011 Italy).

6 April 2009 – 6.3 quake L’Aquila Abruzzo east of Rome killing 292 people. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

6 April 2009 – La’Aquia 6.3 quake 300 dead (Hindustan Times 2 April 2014).

6 April 2009 – 296 people killed L’Aquila Abruzzoa 65,000 people made homeless. (ABC Australia 6 Feb 2013).

27 April 2009 – Italy’s mafia thrives while the world economy is in meltdown. Int business Times US.

13 July 2010 – Ndrangheta mafia arrested 300 in Italy crackdown. Nick Squires.

25 May 2011 – One of Italy’s most dangerous mafia bosses arrested. Xinhua news agency. Camorra in the Campania region.

20 May 2012 – 7 people killed dozens injured 6.8 quake Bologne. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

29 May 2012 – 15 people killed 5.8 quake Emilia Romagna. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

2013 – History of the Mafia. Salvatore Lupo. Google books.

14 July 2013 – lords of international drug trafficking. Economic times cocaine broker Roberto Pannunzi arrested in Colombia shipped to Rome Italy.

26 July 2013 – Mafia made millions from insurance car crash scam in southern Italy. Financial Mirror, Cyprus.

20 Sept 2013 – Gazetta del Sud 3.5 mn Euros seized from mafia linked Palermo. Italian police wind farm mogul Vito Nicastri money laundered.

7 Oct 2013 – Mafia targets war veteran journalist Roberto Saviano. Naples Mafia. The local Italy news in English.

4 March 2014 – 40 arrested in mafia. Xinhua news agency. Ndrangheta are the richest mafia, Giuseppe Pensabene.

20 March 2014 – Italy seized 2 tonnes of cocaine in anti mafia operation. Xinhua news agency. Southern region of Calabria. International drug trafficking.

26 March 2014 – Ndrangheta turnover equals Italy’s GDP in 2013. Xinhua news agency. Turnover of Ndrangheta mafia, times GDP in 2013.

27 March 2014 – Crime does pay. Mafias annual income passes tat of EU. The Independent London. Turnover of Italy’s mafia .

28 April 2014 – Italy to extradite Mafia boss from Caribbean. Xinhua news agency. Rome. Italian mafia Ndrangheta.

18 June 2014 – Italian police raid mafia strongholds in Palermo 17 arrested. Xinhua news agency. Sicily’s capital city Palermo, drug trafficking.

23 June 2014 – Italy arrests over 90 mafia suspects. Xinhua news agency. Rome extortion, criminal networks.

24 June 2014 – Over 50 Ndrangheta mafia arrested in major police sting. Saudi press agency SPA. Calabrian mafia the Ndrangheta.

24 June 2014 – Cop solve century old case. New York Post. Cops at Palermo Piazza marina, mafia shot him four times killing him.

24 June 2014 – Italian police solve century old mafia killing. Fars news agency. Nostra clans Sicily, solve 100 year old mafia murder mystery.

25 June 2014 – 7 arrested in Italy over mafia post quake works. Xinhua news agency. Finance police arrested 7 people in post quake mafia linked extortion in L’Aquilla.

29 June 2014 – Sex abuse pope problems both simple and complex. Boston Globe. Victims of clerical sex abuse. Paying for sex with underage boys Papal ambassador to the Dominican republic recalled, a Paedophile.

1 July 2014 – Italy mafia control of public works. Xinhua news agency. Milan Marzia de Giuli, mafia Italy public works.

5 July 2014 – Italians lead in adopting Russian kids. The Moscow Times. About half of all Russian orphans adopted by foreigners in 2013 were taken by Italian families according to a report by Russia supreme.

10 July 2014 – Italy worth 10 million Euros. From mafia linked enterprises. Xinhua news agency. Euros 136 million US dollars, mafia Alfonso Letizia.

10 July 2014 – Vatican cleans up scandal hit bank. Stuff.co.nz. Andrew Frye. The Vatican bank. The IOR bank was set up in 1942, the Banco Ambrosiano in 1980s. The Institute for Religious Works or IOR.

14 July 2014 – Now the end begins. Vatican, pope Francis says there are at least 8,000 paedophile priests around the globe. BBC interview. Catholic church.

20 July 2014 – Death of adopted Russian boy sparks outrage. The Moscow Times. Delphia d’Amora. Children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov. Killing of a five year old Russian boy strangled.

21 July 2014 – Italian police arrest 26 Camorra suspects. Xinhua news agency. Camorra of Campania mafia.

8 Sept 2014 – Italy The Tortellini pact in Europe. Xinhua news agency. Milan Marzia de Giuli. A pact for a Socialist agenda in Europe.

3 Oct 2014 – Mafia boss arrested in Malta. Times of Malta. Police Ray Zammit, Mafia boss Sabastiano Brunno. Malta Independent news.

6 Oct 2014 – 52 arrested in anti mafia operation in Italy. Shanghai Daily. City of Taranto in south. Northern voices online. IANS.

17 Oct 2014 – Two children pushed of tour block by paedophile. The Times London. Police in Naples say murderous paedophile is at large, mafia two children pushed to their death.

17 Oct 2014 – The Guardian UK. Thousands of African children migrants fell to Italian traffickers. 3,000 minors, sex exploitation. Vanishing from homes and shelters. Luca Muzi Catania and Rome.

17 Oct 2014 – Extradition proceedings of mafia boss. Times of Malta. Italian mafia boss Sebastiano Brunno, Sicilian mafia boss. Malta Today.

18 Oct 2014 – A 15 year old girl is kidnapped of the streets of Rome, Missing for 31 years. Mafia. The Toronto Star Ontario Canada. Flavio Carbore. In June 1982 Calvi’s body was found hanging from London Blackfriars.

18 Oct 2014 – A 15 year old girl is kidnapped off the streets of Rome, Unsolved for 31 years. Mafia, East German Stasi and Popes. The Toronto Star. Ontario Canada.

21 Oct 2014 – Vatican library digital archives now available online. Botanews. 4,000 ancient manuscripts. Global IT service NTT DATA.

21 Oct 2014 – 13 arrested, companies raided in Italy in an anti mafia operation. Xinhua news agency. Rome, 50 raids.

23 Oct 2014 – The EU needs biometrics, fingerprints, and a database to monitor migrants, says Italy’s ex FM. RT. Franco Frattini. Foreign fighters and refugees should be under observation.

25 Oct 2014 – The mafia, Communist groups, the pope. Toronto Star. Rome.

28 Oct 2014 – Chronology the Sicilian mafia Italy. Europe online. Rome the Sicilian mafia the Costa Nostra early 1990s.

29 Oct 2014 – Italy govt and unions clash as steel workers. Int business Times UK. Maurizio Landini of the union Italy. Reuters.

6 Nov 2014 – Italian firms secret Luxembourg tax deals. The localit. Finmeccanica and unicredit among 340 international companies.

12 Nov 2014 – Italian unions strike. Biggest trade union conference, against the policies of PM Matteo Renzi. Global Post.

26 Nov 2014 – Italian police bust mafia cash counterfeiters. Telegraph UK. Camorra mafia are wanted for drugs, sex slavery and dumping toxic waste.

27 Nov 2014 – Italian police arrested mafia godfather’s son mafia boss Valentino Gionta jr. Daily Mail UK. Naples, Darren Boyle.

29 Nov 2014 – Mafia boss Sabistiano Brunno to be extradited from Malta to Italy. Malta Today. Times of Malta. Sicilian mafia boss. Arrested in Malta on 20 Oct 2014

3 Dec 2014 – Former Mayor of Rome, alleged mafia links. The Guardian UK. Giani Alemanno being investigated over mafia ties, bribes, extortion, corruption, and other top Italian politicians. Reuters. .

December 2014

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