The Lateran Treaty was an agreement between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy, signed in Rome by Benito Mussolini and Cardinal Pietro Gasparri on behalf of Pope Pius XI. It settled the Roman Question, the dispute that had persisted since Italy annexed Rome in 1870 and the popes had considered themselves prisoners in the Vatican. The treaty recognised Vatican City as an independent sovereign state, with the pope as its head, and Italy recognised Catholicism as the state religion in a concordat. Italy also agreed to pay financial compensation to the Church. The Lateran Pacts were revised in 1984, when Catholicism ceased to be Italy's state religion.
Before and after
- 3 January 1929Birth of Sergio Leone
- 15 January 1929Birth of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 29 January 1929Publication of All Quiet on the Western Front
- 31 January 1929Birth of Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
- 11 February 1929Lateran Treaty
- 11 February 1929Founding of Vatican City
- 26 February 1929Establishment of Grand Teton National Park
- 28 February 1929Birth of Frank Gehry
- 8 March 1929Birth of Hebe Camargo
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