Benito Mussolini: Timeline

1883   Born

1919   March 23 — In Milan Milan

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, Italy Italy

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, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist Fascism

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 political movement.

1922   In Italy Italy

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, with the March on Rome Rome

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, Fascism Fascism

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 obtains power and Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister

1922   Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy Italy

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1925   Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy Italy

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1932   Pope Pius XI Pope Pius XI

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 meets Benito Mussolini in the Vatican City Vatican City

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1935   Italian Italy

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 premier Benito Mussolini and French France

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 foreign minister Pierre Laval Pierre Laval

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 conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppose the other's colonial claims

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 meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps Alps

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 and agree to form an alliance against France France

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 and the United Kingdom United Kingdom

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1940   World War II: German Germany

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 leader Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler

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 and Italian Italy

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 Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece Greece

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1943   In Italy Italy

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 the Gran Consiglio del Fascismo retires its consent to Mussolini Benito Mussolini

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; Mussolini is arrested and the power is given to Maresciallo d'Italia Gen. Pietro Badoglio.

1945   Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country. Their bodies are then hung by their heels in the public square of Milan Milan

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1945   Died