Alps: Timeline

218 BC   Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy Italy

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190   A Roman road crosses the Alps by the Simplon Pass.

773   Charlemagne Charlemagne

Charlemagne was the King of the Franks [i] who conquered Italy [i] and took the Iron Crown of Lombardy [i] ... 

 crosses the Alps and invades the kingdom of the Lombards Lombards

The Lombards , were a Germanic people [i] originally from Northern Europe [i] that enter ... 

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1166   Henry the Lion Henry the Lion

Henry the Lion, in German [i], Heinrich der Lwe) ... 

 erects first bronze statue north of the Alps.

1800   Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon I of France

Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Prot... 

 crosses the Alps and invades Italy Italy

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1865   The summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps is reached for the first time; four of the party of seven die in a fall during the descent.

1924   The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French France

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 Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.

1940   World War II World War II

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: Axis powers Axis Powers

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 - Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler

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 and Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was the Prime-Minister and fascist [i] dictator of Italy from ... 

 meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France France

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 and the United Kingdom United Kingdom

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1951   Avalanche Avalanche

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s in the Alps - 240 die and 45,000 are buried for a time in Switzerland Switzerland

Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked [i] Alpine country [i] in Central Europe [i] ... 

, Austria Austria

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 and Italy Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic , is a Southern European [i] country. ...