Timeline of Rimini

Prior to 20th century

• 268 BCE – Ariminum becomes a Roman colony.
• 27 BCE – Arch of Augustus erected.
• 313 CE – Roman Catholic Diocese of Rimini established; Stemnio becomes bishop.
• 538 – Rimini besieged by Goth forces.
• 1157 – Rimini granted "right of self-government."
• 1216 – Rimini "worsted by Cesena."
• 1237 – Giovanni Malatesta becomes podesta.
• 1295 – Malatesta da Verucchio becomes.
• 1432 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta becomes lord of Rimini.
• 1450 – Tempio Malatestiano built.
• 1512 – Spaniards and the Swiss fought against the French at Ravenna.
• 1528
• * Pope Clement VII becomes definite master of the town.
• * End of 250 years of the rule over Rimini of the House of Malatesta.
• 1619 – Biblioteca Civica Gambalunga founded.
• 1861 – Bologna–Ancona railway begins operating; Rimini railway station opens.
• 1882 – "Technical school" established.
• 1889 – begins operating.

20th century

• 1901 – Population: 46,801.
• 1912
• * Airport built.
• * Libertas Rimini football club formed.
• 1916 – begins operating.
• 1921 – begins operating.
• 1932 – Ferrovia Rimini-San Marino railway begins operating.
• 1934 – Stadio Romeo Neri opens.
• 1939 – Trolleybuses in Rimini begin operating.
• 1960 – 31 July:.
• 1976 – October: National meeting of Lotta Continua held in Rimini.
• 1992 – formed.
• 1993 – Corriere Romagna newspaper begins publication.

21st century

• 2011 – Andrea Gnassi becomes mayor.
• 2013 – Population: 143,731.
• 2019 – Metromare line opens

in English

in Italian

• Grazia Gobbi, Paolo Sica. Le città nella storia d'Italia. Rimini, Roma, Laterza, 1982.
• Stefano Pivato. Sentimenti e quotidianità in una provincia in guerra. Rimini, 1940-1944
• Oriana Maroni, Maria Luisa Stoppioni. Storia di Rimini, Cesena, Il Ponte Vecchio, 1997.