June 1st 1846: Death of Pope Gregory XVI (r. 1831-46).
June 2nd 1946: Declaration of Italy becoming a republic.
June 3rd 1963: Death of Pope John XIII (r. 1958-63).
June 4th 1944: Liberation of Rome by the allied forces. June 9th 68 CE: Death by suicide of the Emperor Nero (r. 54-68).
June 10th 1654: Death of the Baroque sculptor Alessandro Algardi (b. 1598). 1940: Italy entered the Second World War when Mussolini declared war on Britain and France.
June 11th 1591: Death of the architect Martino Longhi the Elder (b. 1534).
June 12th 1946: The monarchy of the House of Savoy formally ended and Umberto II, Italy's fourth and final king, left the country and went into exile.
June 14th 1497: Murder of Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI (r. 1492-1503).
June 15th 2019: Death of the film director Franco Zeffirelli (b. 1923).
June 16th 1700: Birth of the sculptor Pietro Bracci, who carved the colossal statue of Oceanus, the centrepiece of the Trevi Fountain. 1846: Election of Pius IX (r. 1846-78), who would become the longest-reigning pope in the history of the papacy. 1871: Pius IX becomes the first pope to reign for twenty-five years.
June 18th 1946: The monarchy of the House of Savoy formally ended and Umberto II, Italy's fourth and final king, left the country and went into exile, having reigned for little more than a month!
June 21st 1547: Death of the Venetian painter Sebastiano Luciani, also known as Sebastiano del Piombo (b. 1485). 1963: Election of Pope Paul VI (r. 1963-78). June 22nd 1633: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was found guilty of heresy by the Holy Office of the Catholic Church, and sentenced to imprisonment. The following day, this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life. 1983: Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a fifteen-year-old resident of Vatican City, who went missing while returning from a flute lesson in the centro storico. Her disappearance, which has never been resolved, has been described as the most famous unsolved mystery in Italy!
June 29th 1779: Death of the German painter Anton Raphael Mengs (b. 1728), who is buried in the church of Santi Michele e Magno.