Tuesday - Parliament authorizes the expenditure of 1.400.000 lire for the purchase of the area needed for the construction of the new headquarters of the Ministry of the Navy and the barracks of the detachment of the CRE.

Sunday - 10.000.000 of liras are allocated to be entered in the state of expenditure of the Ministry of War for the EF 1909-1910 for the construction of airships, airplanes, related plants, works, transport and special allowances to personnel. This is the construction and acquisition of nine airships, ten airplanes, seven airplanes ("shipyards", according to the lexicon of the time), two airports.

Saturday - The first ground-to-ground radio-communications experiment with Morse code communication over the distance of 3000 m is performed and repeated several times until 13 in Spezia with positive outcome by Guglielmo Marconi who uses a transmitter system with 25 m antenna installed in the entrance square of the shipyard of San Bartolomeo and a receiving apparatus placed in the command court (today "Piazzale Bergamini") of the arsenal.

Tuesday - In front of Spezia the master pilot of the Naval Engineer Alessandro Guidoni during an experimental flight with a Hydroplane Farman, due to a failure at the controls loses control of the aircraft but manages to make an emergency ditch.

Friday - Imbaldanzito from the victories achieved and the successful conclusion of the war against Greece (during the crisis of Crete 1896-1898), the Sultan unilaterally decides to send his fleet to Crete to strengthen the Ottoman garrison.

Body's Motto: "Arma Ferunt Corda"

The Naval Weapons Corps derives its origins from the needs that the post-unitary Regia Marina found itself to face following the strong technological progress of the artillery and ammunition on board.

Wednesday - The armored cruiser Amalfi (commander, captain of vessel Giacomo Riaudo) operating in the Upper Adriatic with the escort of the offshore torpedo boats Calypso e Climene, in support of a torpedo formation (11 destroyer of the 1a and 2a Squadriglia) on a surveillance cruise, is sunk by a torpedo launched by the German submarine UB 14 (operating under the Austrian flag as U 26) commanded by the Lieutenant von Heimburg.

Saturday - The Chamber approves the sending of troops to China. Initiatives by the Army to set up an expeditionary force consisting of 2543 infantrymen and Bersaglieri (an infantry battalion, a Bersaglieri battalion, a battery of machine guns and fortress artillery, a detachment of the Genius, a field hospital and a subsistence section), called Regie Troops of the Far East, under the command of Colonel Vincenzo Garioni.

Monday - In Venice in the presence of King Umberto and Queen Margherita the battleship Sicilia goes down to the sea from the port of construction of the arsenal. The Sicilia it is the third and last unit of the class "King Umberto" that displaced 13298 t, with a motor apparatus that developed 17621 horses for a maximum speed of 19 nodes.

Friday - Minister Depretis informs the admiral Persano of the King's intention not to want to accept the Veneto from the hands of Napoleon III, because it is considered an offensive act, but to want to conquer it with actions on the field and the sea.

Friday - In the waters of Capri during the transfer of the Permanent Team from Naples to Palermo, the torpedo-alert thunderbolt (commander, corvette captain Vincenzo Capasso) during a training crossing exercise due to maneuvering error collides with the torpedo boat ram Giovanni Bausan (commander, captain of vessel Giulio Centurione).

Thursday - On the anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi, which took place a century earlier in Nice, the day is declared a national holiday.

Tuesday - The cruiser Flavio Gioia under the command of the captain of ship Eugenio Grandville, he concludes in La Spezia the longest oceanic campaign carried out by a unit of the Royal Navy (four years and seven months) with a complete change of the crew and the general staff.

Sunday - Minister Leonardi Cattolica noting that the number of competitors in the normal courses of the Naval Academy continued to decrease dangerously and returning to prevail the idea of ​​greater convenience to recruit students at a very young age, after 17 years of ordering Morin, returns to the original form of admission, but leaving to the individual notifications of the competition the task of specifying the age requirements and the qualification necessary for admission.

Friday - Comes in service to Naples under the command of the captain of vessel Guglielmo Capomazza the armored cruiser St. George of the same name on two units. Built in the construction site of Castellammare di Stabia with the 4 July 1905 setting at the airport, the 27 on July 1908 was launched.

Sunday - In Beijing (during the period of clashes with Boxers 1900 -1901), already in the second month of siege, during a counterattack, the Lieutenant Tommaso Federico Paolini at the head of his sailors, wounded, launches to ' assault of a barricade firmly defended by the boxer causing them serious losses.

Wednesday - The corvette of 2 ° order to propeller Etna enters service in Naples. The 17 1860 on March at the construction site of Castellammare di Stabia on behalf of the Bourbon Navy, the 17 on July 1862 was launched, after the Royal Navy decided to continue its construction.

Sunday - During the month in La Spezia on an unknown date due to the strict secrecy in progress, the project of the first Italian submarine developed by the director of the Naval Engineer Giacinto Pullino is completed.

Monday - The ball Torricelli of the aeronautical park of the 3 Aeronautical Division of the Military Engineering Corps of Florence performs an ascent engaged in free flight on the Rome circuit (Forte Tiburtino) -Grottaferrata-Rocca di Papa with on board the Minister of War, Lieutenant General Cesare Ricotti Magnani, the Minister of the Navy, inspector general of the Naval Engineers Benedetto Brin and the Minister of Public Works, Hon. Francesco Genola.

Thursday - At the command of the Corvette captain Arturo Cacace, the destroyer enters service in Naples nimbus, first of a class of six units, built by the local Pattison shipyard under license from Thornycroft company in Chiswick (London).