1993   A car bomb at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy kills 5.

1996   A fire in Venice, Italy destroys La Fenice

1997   A fire damages the renowned Turin Cathedral in Turin, Italy. The Shroud of Turin is removed by firefighters before it can be damaged.

1998   Nineteen European nations sign an agreement to prohibit human cloning including: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

1998   A United States warplane flying over a resort near Trento, Italy severs a wire supporting cable cars, causing one car to fall to the mountain below. Nineteen skiers and a cable car operator are killed.

1999   Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is elected President of Italy.

1999   Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece he Last Supper (Leonardo)|The Last Supper is put back on display In Milan, Italy, after a 22 year restoration effort.

2003   The Letter of the Eight is signed by leaders of eight countries including the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, demonstrating support for the United States' plans to invade Iraq.

2003   Prometea, the first cloned horse is born in a laboratory in Cremona, Italy.

2004   In Rome, Italy, a treaty establishing the first Constitution for Europe was officially signed by the representatives of the then twenty-five Member States of the European Union.

2005   Silvio Berlusconi tenders the resignation of his government following losses in regional elections in Italy

2005   An ATR-72 airliner heading from Bari, Italy to Djerba, Tunisia crashes into the Mediterranean Sea. Sixteen of the thirty-two people on board died.