See ETHIOPIA.
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NAPLES:
Origin of the city.
See NEAPOLIS AND PALÆPOLIS.
NAPLES: A. D. 536-543.
Siege and capture by Belisarius.
Recovery by the Goths.
See ROME: A. D. 535-553.
NAPLES: A. D. 554-800.
The dukedom.
See ROME: A. D. 554-800.
NAPLES: 8-9th Centuries.
The duchy of Beneventum.
See BENEVENTUM; also, AMALFI.
NAPLES: A. D. 1000-1080.
The Norman Conquest.
Grant by the Pope as a fief of the Church.
See ITALY: A. D. 1000-1090.
NAPLES: A. D. 1127.
Union of Apulia with Sicily and formation of the
kingdom of Naples or the Two Sicilies.
See ITALY: A. D. 1081-1194.
NAPLES: A. D. 1282-1300.
Separation from Sicily.
Continuance as a separate kingdom under the House of Anjou.
Adhesion to the name "Sicily."
See ITALY: A. D. 1282-1300;
also, TWO SICILIES.
NAPLES: A. D. 1312-1313.
Hostilities between King Robert and the Emperor, Henry VII.
See ITALY: A. D. 1310-1313.
NAPLES: A. D. 1313-1328.
King Robert's leadership of the Guelf interest in Italy.
His part in the wars of Tuscany.
See ITALY: A. D. 1313-1330.
NAPLES: A. D. 1343-1389.
The troubled reign of Joanna I.
Murder of her husband, Andrew of Hungary.
Political effects of the Great Schism in the Church.
War of Charles of Durazzo and Louis of Anjou.
Interfering violence of Pope Urban VI.
See ITALY: A. D. 1343-1389.
NAPLES: A. D. 1386-1414.
Civil war between the Durazzo and the Angevin parties.
Success of Ladislas.
His capture, loss, and recapture of Rome.
See ITALY: A. D. 1386-1414.
NAPLES: A. D. 1414-1447.
Renewal of civil war.
Defeat of the Angevins and acquisition of the
crown by Alfonso, king of Aragon and Sicily.
League with Florence and Venice against Milan.
See ITALY: A. D. 1412-1447.
NAPLES: A. D.1447-1454.
Claim of King Alfonso to the duchy of Milan.
War with Milan and Florence.
See MILAN: A. D. 1447-1454.
NAPLES: A. D. 1458.
Separation of the crown from those of Aragon and Sicily.
Left to an illegitimate son of Alfonso.
Revived French claims.
See ITALY: A. D. 1447-1480.
NAPLES: A. D. 1494-1496.
Invasion and temporary conquest by Charles VIII. of France.
Retreat of the French.
Venetian acquisitions in Apulia.
See ITALY: A. D. 1492-1494, 1494-1496;
and VENICE: A. D. 1494-1503.
NAPLES: A. D. 1501-1504.
Perfidious treaty of partition between
Louis XII. of France and Ferdinand of Aragon.
Their joint conquest.
Their quarrel and war.
The French expelled.
The Spaniards in possession.
See ITALY: A. D. 1501-1504.
NAPLES: A. D. 1504-1505.
Relinquishment of French claims.
See ITALY: A. D. 1504-1506.
NAPLES: A. D. 1508-1509.
The League of Cambrai against Venice.
See VENICE: A. D. 1508-1509.
NAPLES: A. D. 1528.
Siege by the French and successful defense.
See ITALY: A. D. 1527-1529.
NAPLES: A. D. 1528-1570.
Under the Spanish viceroys.
Ravages of the Turks along the coast.
The blockade and peril of the city.
Revolt against the Inquisition.
Alva's repulse of the French.
See ITALY: A. D. 1528-1570;
and FRANCE: A. D. 1547-1559.
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NAPLES: A. D. 1544.
Repeated renunciation of the claims of Francis I.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1532-1547.
NAPLES: A. D. 1647-1654.
Revolt of Masaniello.
Undertakings of the Duke of Guise and the French.
See ITALY: A. D. 1646-1654.
NAPLES: A. D. 1713.
The kingdom ceded to the House of Austria.
See UTRECHT: A. D. 1712-1714.
NAPLES: A. D. 1734-1735.
Occupation by the Spaniards.
Cession to Spain, with Sicily, forming a kingdom for
Don Carlos, the first of the Neapolitan Bourbons.
See ITALY: A. D. 1715-1735;
and FRANCE: A. D. 1733-1735.
NAPLES: A. D. 1742.
The neutrality of the kingdom in the War of the Austrian
Succession enforced by England.
See ITALY: A. D. 1741-1743.
NAPLES: A. D. 1744.
The War of the Austrian Succession.
Neutrality broken.
See ITALY: A. D. 1744.
NAPLES: A. D. 1749-1792.
Under the Spanish-Bourbon regime.
See ITALY: A. D. 1749-1792.
NAPLES: A. D. 1769.
Seizure of Papal territory.
Demand for the suppression of the Order of the Jesuits.
See JESUITS: A. D. 1761-1769.
NAPLES: A. D. 1793.
Joined in the Coalition against Revolutionary France.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1793 (MARCH-SEPTEMBER).
NAPLES: A. D. 1796.
Armistice with Bonaparte.
Treaty of Peace.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1796 (APRIL-OCTOBER), and (OCTOBER).
NAPLES: A. D. 1798-1799.
The king's attack upon the French at Rome.
His defeat and flight.
French occupation of the capital.
Creation of the Parthenopeian Republic.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1798-1799 (AUGUST-APRIL).
NAPLES: A. D. 1799.
Expulsion of the French.
Restoration of the king.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1799 (AUGUST-DECEMBER).
NAPLES: A. D. 1800-1801.
The king's assistance to the Allies.
Saved from Napoleon's vengeance by the intercession
of the Russian Czar.
Treaty of Foligno.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1800-1801 (JUNE-FEBRUARY).
NAPLES: A. D. 1805 (April).
Joined in the Third Coalition against France.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1805 (JANUARY-APRIL).
NAPLES: A. D. 1805-1806.
Napoleon's edict of dethronement against the king and queen.
Its enforcement by French arms.
Joseph Bonaparte made king of the Two Sicilies.