Milan Malpensa Airport is the largest airport serving Milan and one of the main airports of Italy, located near Varese, to the north-west of the city. The site on the Malpensa heath was used for early aviation experiments in the first years of powered flight, including by the aircraft pioneer Gianni Caproni. It developed into a commercial airport in the twentieth century, and a large new terminal was opened in the late 1990s, when Malpensa was planned as a major hub for Alitalia. That plan was later abandoned, and today it is a base for low-cost carriers and cargo operators. In 2024 the airport was renamed after the late prime minister and businessman Silvio Berlusconi, a decision that attracted criticism.
Before and after
- 28 December 19081908 Messina earthquake
- 1909Rise of Futurism
- 1909Founding of Audi AG
- 1909Founding of Coritiba F.C.
- 1909Construction of Milan–Malpensa "Silvio Berlusconi" Airport
- 1909Fritz Haber synthesises ammonia from air
- 1909Mohorovicic discovers the boundary between the crust and the mantle
- 1909Paul Ehrlich discovers Salvarsan, the first modern chemotherapy
- 2 January 1909Origins of Elfstedentocht
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- 1890Rise of Art Nouveau
- 28 December 1895The Lumiere brothers hold the first public film screening
- c. 1900sRise of Expressionism
- c. 1910sRise of Dada
The era
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