Il Canto degli Italiani, also known as Fratelli d'Italia, the Brothers of Italy, is the national anthem of Italy. The poet Goffredo Mameli wrote the words in Genoa as a young patriot of about twenty, and the composer Michele Novaro set them to music. It became very popular during the struggle for Italian unification and was sung by volunteers in revolutionary and military campaigns. Mameli died in 1849 of a wound received defending the Roman Republic. The anthem was not adopted by the new kingdom, which used a royal march, but it was provisionally chosen after the republic was established in 1946, and it was made official by law in 2017.
Before and after
- 10 August 1846Founding of Smithsonian Institution
- 23 September 1846Discovery of Neptune
- 10 October 1846Discovery of Triton
- 1847Construction of Carlsberg Group
- 1847Publication of Il Canto degli Italiani
- 1847Publication of Wuthering Heights
- from 1847 to 1901Caste War of Yucatán
- 1847Ignaz Semmelweis shows that handwashing prevents childbed fever
- 11 February 1847Birth of Thomas Edison
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