The March on Rome was the event by which Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party took power in Italy. Thousands of Blackshirts converged on the capital from different parts of the country, while Mussolini himself stayed in Milan. The Italian government, led by Prime Minister Luigi Facta, wanted to declare martial law, but King Victor Emmanuel III refused to sign the decree, perhaps afraid of civil war or of losing his throne to a rival. Facta resigned, and the king invited Mussolini to form a government. Mussolini travelled to Rome by train and became prime minister, and within a few years he had established a dictatorship. The march was later presented as a revolution.
Before and after
- from 28 June 1922 to 24 May 1923Irish Civil War
- 2 August 1922Death of Alexander Graham Bell
- 7 September 1922Founding of Bank of Latvia
- from 13 September 1922 to 22 September 1922Burning of Smyrna
- from 27 October 1922 to 30 October 1922March on Rome
- 31 October 1922Birth of Norodom Sihanouk
- 4 November 1922Howard Carter finds the tomb of Tutankhamun
- 11 November 1922Birth of Kurt Vonnegut
- 14 November 1922Founding of BBC News
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