Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris

Italian general, especially remembered for his brutal repression of riots in Milan in 1898, known as the Bava Beccaris massacre.

- Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris

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During the colonial wars in Africa, large demonstrations over the rising price of bread were held in Italy and on 7 May 1898, the city of Milan was put under military rule by General Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, who ordered rifle-fire and artillery against the demonstrators.

Fossano

Town and comune of Piedmont, northern Italy.

Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris (1831–1924), a general, especially remembered for the Bava Beccaris massacre was born in Fossano.

Bava Beccaris massacre

Barricades of the rioters and intervention of the military, Milan 1898

Piazza del Duomo, Milan, 1898. Troops deployed against demonstrators

The Bava Beccaris massacre, named after the Italian General Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, was the repression of widespread food riots in Milan, Italy, on 6–10 May 1898.

Avanti! (newspaper)

Avanti! (meaning "Forward!"

Front page of the first number of Avanti! (25 December 1896).

L'Ardito, the arditi newspaper, of 18 April 1920 exalted the anniversary of the first squadrist attack against Avanti! on 15 April 1919 in Milano.

Launch of the popular subscription for the construction of the new headquarter for Avanti! after the squadrist assaults, 23 April 1919.

Editoral staff of Avanti! in Milan, 1921. The first sitting on the left of secretary Fasano is Guido Mazzali. The third sitting from left, with gaiters, is Pietro Nenni, and on his side, with moustaches and glasses, there is Walter Mocchi. The first above on the right is the satirical cartoonist Giuseppe Scalarini, with Giuseppe Romita sitting in front of him.

Advertising poster for the subscription to Avanti!, 1896.

Advertising of Avanti!, 27 December 1896.

Portrait of Leonida Bissolati, first director of Avanti! in 1896.

Advertising poster drawn by Gabriele Galantara for the subscription to Avanti!, 1898.

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On 7 May in Milan, the government declared the state of siege and gave full powers to general Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris, who ordered to open fire against the crowd.

Gaetano Bresci

Italian-American anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I of Italy on July 29, 1900.

While Bresci was influenced by Ciancabilla and the continued suppression of popular revolt in Italy, he was particularly affected by the 1898 Bava Beccaris massacre, in which dozens of people were murdered during the Milanese bread riots over the rising price of bread, for which the king awarded a medal to General Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris.

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In response infantry, cavalry and artillery were brought into the city and General Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris ordered his troops to fire on demonstrators.

1898 in Italy

Events from the year 1898 in Italy.

May 7–9 – Bread riots in Milan, Florence and Livorno, in which many people are killed. Martial law is proclaimed. The Bava Beccaris massacre, named after the Italian General Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, quells widespread riots in Milan. On May 9, 1898, the troops used artillery to breach the walls of a monastery outside Porta Monforte, but they found inside only a group of beggars who had come to receive assistance from the friars. According to the government, there were 118 dead and 450 wounded. The opposition claimed 400 dead and more than 2,000 injured people. Filippo Turati of the Italian Socialist Party was arrested, accused of inspiring the riots. In July 1900, King Umberto I of Italy was assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci who claimed to avenge the victims of the repression and the offense given by the decoration awarded to General Bava Beccaris.

1924 in Italy

Events in the year 1924 in the Kingdom of Italy.

8 April – Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, general, known for the Bava Beccaris massacre (b. 1831)

1890s

Decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899.

From left, clockwise: Union workers at a Carnegie Steel plant go on a strike later known as the Homestead Strike in 1892; Plessy v. Ferguson establishes the doctrine of racial segregation and leads to Jim Crow laws; USS Maine sinks in Havana Harbor in 1898 sparking the Spanish-American War; U.S. pays $20 million to get the Philippines from Spain in the Treaty of Paris; a cartoon mocks the Cross of Gold speech given by William Jennings Bryan who argues against the gold standard; Panic of 1893 instigates an economic depression which lasts for most of the 1890s; Thomas Edison invents the kinetograph, an early example of motion-picture technology; US Marines hoist a US flag during the land campaign of Cuba in the Spanish-American War.

World empires and colonies in 1898 (just before the Spanish–American War, Boxer Rebellion and Boer War)

Dreyfus affair – Alfred Dreyfus being dishonorably discharged, 5 January 1895.

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1895 Benz Velo. Along with its contemporary Duryea Motor Wagon, those vehicles were considered the earliest standardized cars. The 1890s also saw further developments in the history of the automobile.

Panhard-Levassor (1890–1895). This model was the first automobile to circulate in Portugal

Charles Kayser of the Edison lab seated behind the Kinetograph. Portability was not among the camera's virtues.

First edition cover of The Time Machine (1895)

1898: The Bava Beccaris massacre in Milan, Kingdom of Italy. On May 5, 1898, workers organized a strike to demonstrate against the government of Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Prime Minister of Italy, holding it responsible for the general increase of prices and for the famine that was affecting the country. The first blood was shed that day at Pavia, when the son of the mayor of Milan was killed while attempting to halt the troops marching against the crowd. After a protest in Milan the following day, the government declared a state of siege in the city. Infantry, cavalry and artillery were brought into the city and General Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris ordered his troops to fire on demonstrators. According to the government, there were 118 dead and 450 wounded. The opposition claimed 400 dead and more than 2,000 injured people. Filippo Turati, one of the founder of the Italian Socialist Party, was arrested and accused of inspiring the riots.

Fiorenzo

Masculine Italian given name.

Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris (1831–1924), Italian general