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Benito Mussolini
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Person

Benito Mussolini

1883 – 1945 · aged 62

Dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945

Born
29 Jul 1883 · Predappio
Died
28 Apr 1945 · Giulino
Part ofWorld War II1939 – 1945Italy753 BCE – todayKingdom of Italy1785 – 1946Atheism460 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 71 years
  1. 29 Jul 1883BornBorn in Predappio
  2. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  3. 1915 – 1918WarItalian Front
  4. 1921 – 1924RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy
  5. 1922 – 1924RoleMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy
  6. 1922 – 1924RoleMinister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy
  7. 1922 – 1943RolePrime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy
  8. 1923 – 1925RoleMinister of Air Force of the Kingdom of Italy
  9. 1923AwardGrand Cross of the Legion of Honour
  10. 1924 – 1929RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy
  11. 1924 – 1929RoleMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy
  12. 1924RoleMinister of Italian Africa of the Kingdom of Italy
  13. 1925 – 1926RoleMinister of War of the Kingdom of Italy
  14. 1925 – 1926RoleMinister of the Navy of the Kingdom of Italy
  15. 1925 – 1926RoleMinister of Air Force of the Kingdom of Italy
  16. 1926 – 1929RoleMinister of the Navy of the Kingdom of Italy
  17. 1926 – 1929RoleMinister of War of the Kingdom of Italy
  18. 1926 – 1929RoleMinister of Air Force of the Kingdom of Italy
  19. 1926 – 1929RoleMinister of Corporations of the Kingdom of Italy
  20. 1926AwardGrand cross of the Order of the White Lion
  21. 1926 – 1943RoleMinister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy
  22. 1926AwardGrand Cross of Naval Merit with white badge
  23. 1926AwardNational Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
  24. 1928AwardOrder of the Liberator
  25. 1928 – 1929RoleMinister of Italian Africa of the Kingdom of Italy
  26. 1929 – 1934RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy
  27. 1929RoleMinister of Public Works of the Kingdom of Italy
  28. 1929 – 1936RoleMinister of Corporations of the Kingdom of Italy
  29. 1930RoleMinister of Public Works of the Kingdom of Italy
  30. 1930AwardRoyal Order of the Seraphim
  31. 1932 – 1936RoleMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy
  32. 1932AwardGoethe Medal for Art and Science
  33. 1933 – 1943RoleMinister of War of the Kingdom of Italy
  34. 1933 – 1943RoleMinister of Air Force of the Kingdom of Italy
  35. 1933 – 1943RoleMinister of the Navy of the Kingdom of Italy
  36. 1934 – 1939RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy
  37. 1935 – 1943RoleMinister of Italian Africa of the Kingdom of Italy
  38. 1935RoleMinister of Public Works of the Kingdom of Italy
  39. 1935 – 1937WarSecond Italo-Ethiopian War
  40. 1936AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy
  41. 1937AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Merit of the German Eagle in Gold with Diamonds
  42. 1937AwardCollar of the Imperial Order of the Red Arrows
  43. 1937AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Lausanne
  44. 1938 – 1943RoleFirst marshal of the empire
  45. 1939 – 1943RoleNational councillor to the Chamber of Fasci and Corporations
  46. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  47. 1939WarItalian invasion of Albania
  48. 1940 – 1941WarGreco-Italian War
  49. 1943RoleMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy
  50. 1943 – 1945RoleForeign minister
  51. 1943 – 1945RolePrime minister
  52. 28 Apr 1945DiedDied in Giulino

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1883 – 1945).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  9. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  10. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  11. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  12. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  14. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  15. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1938Munich Agreement
  17. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials

Biography

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was a fascist dictator who was the prime minister of Italy from 1922 until his deposition in 1943. Known as Il Duce during his rule, he established a totalitarian dictatorship led by the National Fascist Party (PNF) in the Kingdom of Italy.

Born in Predappio, Mussolini originally worked as a journalist for the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) newspaper Avanti!. He was expelled from the party for advocating military intervention in World War I and called up for the Royal Italian Army in 1915, where he served until his discharge after being wounded in 1917. After the war, Mussolini turned to nationalism and denounced the PSI. He founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento in 1919, which opposed egalitarianism and class conflict and instead promoted a form of revolutionary nationalism transcending class lines. The Combattimento are often considered the world's first fascist movement.

The Combattimento were reorganised into the PNF in 1921. Fascist militants marched on Rome and Mussolini was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III in 1922. He established the OVRA in 1927 to silence opposition, outlawed labour strikes, and consolidated power through the Acerbo Law among others, transforming Italy from a parliamentary democracy into a one-party state. He ordered the Pacification of Libya, characterised by some scholars as a genocide, and signed the Lateran Treaty to formally establish the Vatican City in 1929. Mussolini generally espoused autarkist and corporatist policies to grow the Italian economy, especially after the Great Depression.

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