1903 in Italy

Kingdom of Italy

• Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III
• Prime Minister –
• # Giuseppe Zanardelli
• # Giovanni Giolitti
• Population – 33,004,000

  Events

February

• February 13 – Venezuelan crisis. After agreeing to arbitration in Washington, Britain, Germany and Italy reach a settlement with Venezuela, resulting in the Washington Protocols. The naval blockade that began in December 1902 will be lifted, and Venezuela commit 30% of its customs duties to settling claims.

  June

• June 13 – Prime Minister Giuseppe Zanardelli resigns after losing a vote in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. However, after several attempts the Cabinet is reconstructed. The Interior Minister Giovanni Giolitti is replaced.

  July

• July 31 – Start of the Papal conclave after the death of the 93-year-old Pope Leo XIII. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was elected on August 4 as Pope Pius X. Pius X's papacy would feature vigorous condemnation of what he termed 'modernists' and 'relativists' whom he regarded as dangers to the Catholic faith.

  October

• October 21 – Due to ill health Prime Minister Giuseppe Zanardelli resigns.

  November

• November 3 – Giovanni Giolitti forms a new Cabinet.

  Births

• January 9 – Gioacchino Colombo, Italian automobile engine designer for Alfa Romeo and Ferrari
• February 16 – Beniamino Segre, Italian mathematician
• February 26 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 18 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian diplomat and Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy 1936–1943
• July 16 – Adalberto Libera, Italian Modernist architect

  Deaths

• July 20 – Pope Leo XIII, Italian Roman Catholic Pope
• December 26 – Giuseppe Zanardelli, Italian politician and Prime Minister