2023 in Italy

2023
in
Italy

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Events during the year 2023 in Italy.

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Events

January

February

March

  • 9 March: In Viterbo neo-Nazi banners are displayed with insults to the new secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein.
  • 31 March: Italy's Data Protection Authority blocks ChatGPT for allegedly breaching data protection rules and failing to verify that its users are at least 13 years old.

April

  • 2–3 April: 2023 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election
  • 7 April: Italy’s national birth rate falls to its lowest level on record since 1861. With fewer than 400,000 births in 2022.
  • 19 April: Francesco Lollobrigida Minister of Agriculture makes a speech to a trade union conference suggesting that "Italians are having fewer children, so we're replacing them with someone else. [We say] yes to helping births, no to ethnic replacement. That’s not the way forward." Responding to his statement opposition politicians cited references to Italian fascist rhetoric of the 1930s. News reports set his remarks in the wider context of the racist Great Replacement theory.

May

June

July

  • 12 July: A man is acquitted of assault as grope lasted less than 10 seconds. According to the judge, what happened “does not constitute a crime” because it lasted less than 10 seconds. The ruling has caused an uproar, with people posting videos on social media simulating groping.

August

September

  • 13 September: Three people are killed and several others are injured in an explosion at a factory in Chieti, Abruzzo. A similar explosion at the factory in 2020 killed three workers.
  • 16 September: A military plane crashes near Turin, Piedmont, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring four people, including the pilot.

October

Deaths

January

February

March

  • 5 March – Piero Gilardi, 80, visual artist.
  • 6 March – Mario Telò, 72, political scientist and researcher.
  • 15 March – Pierluigi Concutelli, 78, neofascist terrorist and bank robber.
  • 21 March – Francesco Maselli, 92, film director and screenwriter.
  • 22 March – Lucy Salani, 98, activist and the only known Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps.
  • 26 March – Ivano Marescotti, 77, actor and theatre director.

April

May

June

July

August

September

October


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