2004 in Italy
Events during the year 2004 in Italy.
Incumbents
- President: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
- Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi
Events
- March 6 - Sanremo: Marco Masini wins with the Flying Man at the 54th edition of the Italian Song Festival.
- March 20 - second world day against the war; millions of people take to the streets all over the world, hundreds of thousands in Rome.
- April 13 - in Iraq four Italians were kidnapped. They are Maurizio Agliana, Umberto Cupertino, Fabrizio Quattrocchi and Salvatore Stefio. Quattrocchi l was killed, and the other three were freed after 56 days.
- 8 June - the three Italian hostages and a Pole are released in Iraq during a targeted action.
- 1 September - in the Mazara del Vallo area, a 3 years old girl named Denise Pipitone disappears while playing in the street. the issue will be closed to be reopened in 2021.
- 1–11 September – 61st Venice International Film Festival
- November 25 - the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi grants pardon to Graziano Mesina, known as "Grazianeddu", former red primrose of Sardinian banditry.
- December 7 - after three years of restructuring, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan reopens with the opera L'Europarecognata by Antonio Salieri.
- December 16 - the Italian Creative Commons Licenses are presented in Turin.
Film
- Tre metri sopra il cielo
- Tu la conosci Claudia?
- Christmas in Love
- Volevo solo dormirle addosso
- L'odore del sangue
- Certi bambini
- Che ne sarà di noi
- Non ti muovere
- Agata e la tempesta
- L'amore è eterno finché dura
- Mi piace lavorare
- La spettatrice
- Dopo mezzanotte
- La rivincita di Natale
- Le chiavi di casa
- Stai con me
- Le conseguenze dell'amore
Deaths
- 3 April – Gabriella Ferri, singer.
- 27 May – Umberto Agnelli, industrialist, head of Fiat.
- 4 June –
- 28 July – Tiziano Terzani, journalist.
- 31 July – Laura Betti, actress.
- 22 August – Reginaldo Polloni, rower.
- 23 August – Francesco Minerva, Roman Catholic archbishop.
- 26 August – Enzo Baldoni, journalist.
- 28 August – Silvana Jachino, actress.
- 12 November – Lelio Marino, Italian-born American entrepreneur.
- 16 November – Massimo Freccia, Italian-American conductor.
- 14 December – Agostino Straulino, sailor.
- 19 December – Renata Tebaldi, opera singer.