Thursday - Turin dies less than 51 years for maliciously malicious malevolent fevers Camillo Benso Count of Cavour, Prime Minister of the Regia Marina, to whom an elaborate weave of the Armed Forces had to be recognized, which he promised to perfect by hand as the circumstances allowed him to do so.
Wednesday - The destroyers Italo Dilda and the Antonio Stranges paratrooper will enter service in Spezia respectively Bersagliere e Grenadier, first and second units of the "Bersagliere" class.
04/06/2015 - The Giuseppe Garibaldi aircraft carrier cruiser, the first unit of this kind of the Italian Navy, was built in the Monfalcone Shipyards and launched there on 04 June 1983.
Thursday - Completed in the Venice arsenal the work of conversion into a seaplane support vessel, the cruiser Elba it is classified as 2nd class auxiliary vessel and transferred to Taranto.
Thursday - National Corps of Motonautic Volunteers (CNVM) subjected to the vigilance of the Minister of the Navy, with the aim of contributing to the defense of the country.
Monday - The destroyer Lancer under the command of the corvette captain, Gustavo Orsini makes a special outing at sea in the waters of the Gulf of Spezia.
Friday - General Giuseppe Garibaldi dies in Caprera at 75 years. At the funeral that will take place the next day 8 with the honors rendered by a gunshot of the gunboat Charybdis at the mooring in the neighboring island of La Maddalena, the highest civil and military authorities will participate.
Friday - The propeller steamer Washington (1400 t, formerly French Helvetie), under the command of Lieutenant of vessel Felice Zicavo is modified in Hospital Natantewith a capacity of 100 beds.
Wednesday - The 1 PN coastal torpedo boat, before 71 unit of the same name, enters service in Naples under the command of the lieutenant Spiridione Bellavista. Built in the Pattison shipyards with the 19 February 1910 setting at the airport, the 18 January was launched.
Friday - Helical armored gunboat with displacement of 2400t. of the Palestro class, set in August of the 1864, built in the Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée La Seyne in Toulon and there launched the 23 1865 December.
Friday - During the night the Austrian seaplane L. 40 type "Löhner L. 1" took off from Pula for a bombing mission on Venice, following the breaking of the crankshaft makes an emergency landing in the swamp of Volano (part southern of the Po river mouth).
27 / 05 / 2015 - The armored division "Aries", catching the enemy by surprise, manages to penetrate the device neutralizing an entire battalion composed of British colonial troops. This was made possible thanks to the search for "surprise", a fundamental element in planning an operation.
Sunday - It is established in a moral body theNational Institute for Military Daughters founded in Turin during the year under the auspices of King Vittorio Emanuele II with oblations of moral bodies and private citizens in order to provide education and education for the daughters of the most deserving soldiers and especially those killed or wounded in war.
Wednesday - They are held in an effective state of blockade by the Italian Naval Forces:
- the Austro-Hungarian coast extending north of the Italian border up to the Montenegrin border to the south with all its islands, harbors, breasts, bays and bays;
Thursday - Umberto di Savoia, hereditary prince and Amedeo di Savoia, his brother, Duke of Aosta, arrive in Taranto to confirm with their presence the choice of the city operated a few days before, after two years of studies and inspections, by the Valfrè di Bonzo commission a more suitable site both for geographic position and for the configuration of the territory to host a naval base and a maritime arsenal.
Hoax: the gen. Garibaldi simulates a prolonged stay in Arona and Meina diverting the enemy action and attacking by surprise at Sesto Calende, where the Austrian defense was unprepared. From this we can deduce how important intelligence is.
Monday, from the 00.00 was a war between Italy and Austria Hungary.
Sunday - In Vienna, Ambassador of Italy, Giuseppe Avarna handed over to Austrian Foreign Minister Baron Stefano Burian the declaration of war. Military operations will start at 24.00.
Prior to the Pact of Steel the Rome-Berlin Axis had been signed (24 October 1936), with which the two powers were engaged in the fight against Bolshevism. From that moment the relations between Italy and Germany became ever closer, up to the signing of the Pact of Steel.
Sunday - In Taranto is inaugurated by the archbishop mons. Pietro Jorio the new revolving bridge, baptized Umberto Cataldo in honor of the reigning sovereign (Umberto I) and of the patron saint of Taranto (San Cataldo), on the navigable canal that connects the Great Sea and the Mar Piccolo breasts, home of the naval base and of the arsenal in progress.