1923 in Italy

Incumbents

• King – Victor Emmanuel III
• Prime Minister – Benito Mussolini

Events

• 28 March – Regia Aeronautica, the air force of Italy, is founded.
• 18 June – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless
• 18 November – The Acerbo Law goes into effect giving Mussolini's fascist party a majority of deputies. The law was used only in the 1924 general election, which was the last competitive election held in Italy until 1946.
• 1 December – In Italy, the Gleno Dam on the Gleno River, in the Valle di Scalve in the northern province of Bergamo bursts, killing at least 356 people

Births

• 1 January – Valentina Cortese, actress
• 10 February – Cesare Siepi, opera singer
• 12 February – Franco Zeffirelli, filmmaker
• 7 June – Giorgio Belladonna, bridge player
• 15 October – Italo Calvino, writer and journalist

Deaths

• 19 August – Vilfredo Pareto, polymath