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Sergio Mattarella
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Person

Sergio Mattarella

b. 1941

President of Italy (2015–present)

Born
23 Jul 1941 · Palermo
Part ofItaly753 BCE – today

Life timeline

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

Showing 98 years
  1. 23 Jul 1941BornBorn in Palermo
  2. 1983 – 1987RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  3. 1987 – 1992RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  4. 1987 – 1988RoleItalian Minister for Parliamentary Relations
  5. 1988 – 1989RoleItalian Minister for Parliamentary Relations
  6. 1989 – 1990RoleItalian Minister of Education
  7. 1991AwardGold medal for merit in school, culture and art
  8. 1992 – 1994RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  9. 1994 – 1996RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  10. 1996 – 2001RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  11. 1998 – 1999RoleVice President of the Council of Ministers of Italy
  12. 1999 – 2000RoleItalian Minister of Defence
  13. 2000 – 2001RoleItalian Minister of Defence
  14. 2001 – 2006RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  15. 2006 – 2008RoleMember of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
  16. 2011 – 2015RoleJudge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
  17. 2011AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  18. 2015RolePresident of Italy
  19. 2015AwardCollar of the Order of Pope Pius IX
  20. 2015AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer
  21. 2016AwardOrder of Valour
  22. 2016AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav‎
  23. 2016AwardCollar of the Order of the Star of Romania
  24. 2016AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle
  25. 2016AwardOrder of Stara Planina
  26. 2017AwardNational Maltese Order of Merit
  27. 2017AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
  28. 2017AwardGrand Collar of the Order of Liberty

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1941 – today).

  1. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  2. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  3. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  4. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  5. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  6. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  7. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  9. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  10. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  12. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  13. 1956Suez Crisis
  14. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  16. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  18. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  20. 1968Prague Spring
  21. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  22. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  23. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  24. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  26. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  27. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  28. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  29. 1985Schengen Agreement
  30. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  31. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  32. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  34. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  36. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  37. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  38. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  39. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  40. 20062006 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Sergio Mattarella (born 23 July 1941) is an Italian politician who has been serving as the president of Italy since 2015. He is the longest-serving president in the history of the Italian Republic. Since Giorgio Napolitano died in 2023, Mattarella is the only living Italian president.

A Catholic leftist politician, Mattarella was a leading member of the Christian Democracy (DC) party from the early 1980s until its dissolution. He served as Minister for Parliamentary Relations from 1987 to 1989, and Minister of Education from 1989 to 1990. In 1994, Mattarella was among the founders of the Italian People's Party (PPI), serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy from 1998 to 1999, and Minister of Defence from 1999 to 2001. He joined The Daisy (DL) in 2002 and was one of the founders of the Democratic Party (PD) in 2007, leaving it when he retired from politics in 2008. He also served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy from 2011 to 2015.

On 31 January 2015, Mattarella was elected to the presidency on the fourth ballot, supported by the centre-left coalition majority led by the PD and centrist parties. Despite having initially ruled out a second term, he was re-elected on 29 January 2022, becoming the second Italian president to be re-elected, the first being Napolitano. As of 2025, five prime ministers have served under his presidency: Matteo Renzi, at that time the PD leader and the main sponsor of Mattarella's presidential candidacy; Paolo Gentiloni, a leading member of the PD who succeeded Renzi after his resignation in 2016; Giuseppe Conte, at that time an independent politician who governed both with right-wing and left-wing coalitions in two consecutive cabinets; Mario Draghi, a banker and former president of the European Central Bank who was appointed by Mattarella to lead a national unity government following Conte's resignation; and Giorgia Meloni, Italy's first ever female prime minister and the most right-wing since 1945 as leader of the coalition that won the general election in September 2022.

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