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Italian Diaspora (United Kingdom)

• See Wiki.en: Category:Italian emigrants to the United Kingdom

Timeline

1000s

• The famous 'Lombard Street' in London took its name from the small but powerful community from northern Italy, living there as bankers and merchants after the year 1000.

1400s

• 1489- Adriano Castellesi (cardinal)

• 1497 - Voyage of Giovanni Caboto to North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England. Augustinian Friar Giovanni Antonio de Carbonariis sailed wih him.

1500s

• 1550-1554 - Michelangelo Florio (pastor)

• 1571-1625 - *John Florio

1700s

• 1714-1746 -- Giacomo Leoni (architect)

• 1734-1737 - Farinelli (singer)

• 1741-1743 - Baldassare Galuppi (composer)

• 1790-1853 - Gaetano Polidori (writer, scholar)

• 1792-1805 - Lorenzo Da Ponte (librettist)

• 1795-1821 - * John Polidori (writer)

1800s (I)

• 1800-1886 - * Frances Polidori (educator), daughter of Gaetano Polidori and wife of Gabriele Rossetti.

• 1824-1854 - Gabriele Rossetti (poet, scholar)

• 1827-1876 - * Maria Francesca Rossetti (writer, nun)

• 1828-1882 - * Dante Gabriel Rossetti (artist)

• 1829-1919 - * William Michael Rossetti (writer, critic)

• 1830-1894 - * Christina Rossetti (writer)

• 1837-1848 - Giuseppe Mazzini (politician)

• 1845-1850 - Sabato Morais (rabbi)

1800s (II)

• 1861-1868 - Vittorio Emanuele Taparelli d'Azeglio (ambassador)

• 1863 - Consecration of St Peter's Italian Church (London)

• 1861-1868 - Carlo Cadorna (ambassador)

• 1875-1960 - * Olivia Rossetti Agresti (writer)

• 1876-1882 - Luigi Federico Menabrea (ambassador)

• 1883-1885 - Costantino Nigra (ambassador)

• 1886-1888 - Luigi Corti (ambassador)

• 1888-1888 - Carlo Felice di Robilant (ambassador)

• 1889-1894 - Giuseppe Tornielli (ambassador)

• 1895-1898 - Annibale Ferrero (ambassador)

• 1898-1900 - Francesco De Renzis (ambassador)

1900s (I)

• 1901-1906 - Alberto Pansa (ambassador)

• 1906-1906 - Tommaso Tittoni (ambassador)

• 1906-1910 - Antonino di San Giuliano (ambassador)

• 1910-1920 - Guglielmo Imperiali (ambassador)

• 1912-1932 - Romaldo Giurgola (Prof. of Italian Studies)

• 1920-1968 - Adalgiso Ferraris (composer)

• 1921-1922 - Giacomo De Martino (ambassador)

• 1922-1927 - Pietro Tomasi Della Torretta (ambassador)

• 1927-1932 - Antonio Chiaramonte Bordonaro (ambassador)

• 1939-1999 - Geneticist Guido Pontecorvo

• 1932-1939 - Dino Grandi (ambassador)

• 1939-1940 - Giuseppe Bastianini (ambassador)

• 1940-1943 - Internment of Italians as "aliens".
  • 1940 (Jun 11) - Nationwide riots against the Italian communities. Thousands of Italian men between the ages of 17 and 60 were arrested.
  • 1940 (Jul 2) - Sinking of the ocean liner Arandora Star. Half of the 700 victims were Italian deportees. It was the "most tragic event in the history of the [British] Italian community".

• 1944-1947 - Nicolò Carandini (ambassador)

• 1947-1951 - Tommaso Gallarati Scotti (ambassador)

1950s

• 1952-1954 - Manlio Brosio (ambassador)

• 1955-1961 - Vittorio Zoppi (ambassador)

• 1961-1964 - Pietro Quaroni (ambassador)

• 1964-1968 - Gastone Guidotti (ambassador)

• 1968-1975 - Raimondo Manzini (ambassador)

• 1975-1980 - Roberto Ducci (ambassador)

• 1975-1998 - Physician Gian Franco Bottazzo

• 1980-1985 - Andrea Cagiati (ambassador)

• 1985-1987 - Bruno Bottai (ambassador)

• 1987-1991 - Boris Biancheri (ambassador)

• 1991-1995 - Giacomo Attolico (ambassador)

• 1995-1999 - Paolo Galli (ambassador)

• 1999-2004 - Luigi Amaduzzi (ambassador)

2000s

• 2004-2009 - Giancarlo Aragona (ambassador)

• 2010-2013 - Alain Giorgio Maria Economides (ambassador)

• 2013-2018 - Pasquale Terracciano (ambassador)

• 2018-present - Raffaele Trombetta (ambassador)