Timeline (Big Benito)

1923
February 3: Train that Mussolini is riding crashes. Mussolini is hospitalized and severely injured. He suffers from shock.

March 15: The worst of Mussolini's wounds are healed. After emerging from the hospital more or less fine, he reveals that the traumatic incident had an effect on his psyche. Mussolini is now a happier, more caring person. To prevent new disasters, Mussolini orders the government to start programs making the transportation system safer. Some recunstruction is made on the Po river dam as well.

June 18: Mt. Etna erupts. Over fifty thousand people lose their homes. Mussolini issues a proclamation ordering generous Italians to house the refugees while new houses are being made. The public opinion of the government is heightened.

September 5: Mussolini calls off the occupation of Corfu. He wishes to be peaceful with his neighbors and avoid any sour feelings from the League of Nations.

December: Po dam bursts, but damage is minimal. About twenty people are killed, but their families are paid in insurance.

1924
June 10: Geacomo Matteoti is kidnapped by facsists. Mussolini orders him to be arrested, rather than the original plan to kill him.

August 18: France begins to withdraw troops from Germany. Italy warns that recent uprisings make that a bad idea. The withdrawal is halted.

October 25: Bose is arrested by the British. Facsist Italians pull strings to release him. Bose ends up in Italy as an assistant to Mussolini. While in Italy, Bose learns about facsism's ideals and inner workings. He later writes a book about India's path to becoming a great nation. It contains facsist propaganda, much to Italy's delight.

1925
January 3: Mussolini officially is Il Duce of Italy. He changes the title to Supreme Benefactor of the Italian People.

April 16: A communist assault at a Bulgarian church outrages Italy and Bulgaria. Bulgaria joins Italy in an anti-communist alliance. Economic support is given the Bulgaria. Il Duce promises to protect Bulgaria in case of another communist assault.

July 18: Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.

Decmeber 16: Radio Ceylon is started. Anti British propaganda is broadcasted. Many Indian subjects start to consider a revolution.

1926
April 7: An assassin attempts to kill Il Duce. Italy in general is outraged at the incident. To raise public opinion even more, welfare programs and insurance companies are started under government supervision.

May 28: de Costa leads a coup in Portugal. Italy sends troops to keep the situation calm. It does. Portugal joins Italy's alliance against communism. The two become trading partners.

October 23: Il Duce issues a decree that gives women special rights. They can now have higher paying jobs and can hold public office.

November 25-27: The death penalty is disestablished in Italy for good. Communist conspirators are the only exception. Mt. Vesuvius erupts and kills many people. A massive relief program is started in that area.

1927
February 14: A massive earthquake in Yugoslavia kills 700. Italy loans them for economic aid. Yugoslavia soon becomes part of Italy's alliance. Albania soon follows.

March 2: Italy's economy undergoes a remake. Minimum wage is set. If an economic disaster occured, then Italy would be relatively unscathed.

May 12: Italy stakes claims to Austria that were proised in the Great War. This falls on deaf ears, but Mussolini promises that the Italians will soon enjoy more elbow room.

June 4: Yugoslavia drops out of the Italian Alliance and severs ties with Albania. Italy tries to coax Yugoslavia back in, but it does not work. Instead, Italy starts to send Albania the surplus support and supplies that were meant to go to Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia is outraged.

August 9: Yugoslavia invades Albania. Resistance is little, and half the country is occupied in less than a week. Italy and Bulgaria react swiftly. Italy invades from the north and Bulgaria invades from the east. Yugoslavia is under Italian control by December. Albania recieves a portion in the south. Bulgaria has all land east of Belgrade.

1928
April 12: A bomb explodes while Mussolini is in Milan. Many are injured. The dead's families are paid insurance and a memorial is put up.

May 24: The Italia crashes near the North Pole. Wealthy Italians eagerly start a huge fund to rescue the survivors.

June 24: The Italia survivors are rescued by and Italian expedition. The rescuers are praised as national heroes and blessed by the Pope.

August 25: Ahmet Zog becomes king of Albania. His administration is a puppet state of Italy.

October 19: An act similar to the Homestead Act is passed for all Italians willing to settle in Libya or Eritrea. Thousands of homeless people and people in poverty flock to the African Colonies.

December 25: On Christmas day, a settler in Libya finds massive deposits of oil and petroleum. Suddenly, Italy is a rich country.

1929
February 11: Italy and the Holy See sign the Lateran treaty recognizing the Vatican City as an independent state.

April 5: Italy forces Bulgaria to hand Macedonia to Albania. The Bulgars are angry at Italy's meddling in Balkan affairs, but are mostly concerned of the lost of Macedonia. The Bulgarian prime minister makes several attempts to buy it back.

July 22: Italy buys Tunisia from France. France enjoys a large sum of money. Mussolini proclaims Tunisia to be part of Libya.

September 17: Natives in Eritrea, Libya, and Tunisia are granted citizenship and the same rights Italians get. The guerilla war in Libya finally stops. The natives in Italy's colonies are integrated into the Italian society in a matter of weeks.

October 29: The Great Depression begins. Neighboring countries such as France, Switzerland, and Austria slink in to depression as well. Italy is more or less unaffected. Thousands of French and Swiss citizens migrate to the economic sanctuary of Italy. This boosts Italy's economy even more, which in turn brings more refugees. Some of Italy even suffers from overpopulation and hundreds of thousands move to the African colonies.

1930
March 11: Civil disobediance in India begins. Massive riots and strikes occur. Bose leads a violent revolutionary group. The British begin to send troops, but the garrison is mostly Indians anyway. Half of the British Army in India deserts and assists the rebels. The revolution drags onward.

May 29: In exchange for economic support, Albania cedes Macedonia to Italy. Bulgaria grumbles on, but their current situation is much to bleak to to anything.

August 10: With some negotiations, Turkey decides not to send troops into Persia. The Kurdish insurgency goes on.

September 3: Kurdistan is founded. It is a slim strip of land in Persia's northwest corner.

December 29: It is decided that once India is free, Pakistan and India will be seperated. The Hindus and Muslims temperarily make a truce to fight the revolution.

1931
January 25: The British are forced out of India. Pakistan, India, and Bengladesh are founded as independent countries. The new countries are still weak and make no attempt to change their borders.

April 13: Albania completely collapses in a combination of anarchy, communist uprisings, and economic freefalling. To keep order, Italy moves troops in and annexes Albania soon after.

August 31: 23 million people are made homeless by a flood in China. Most of the affected people emigrate to Italy. Italy's workforce is expanded with the large number of Chinese immigrants.

September 18: The Mukden Incident. Japan and China are at war. Italy and Japan make secret negotiations. A cryptic alliance is formed.

1932
January 15: 6 million unemployed Germans cross the Austrian borders into Italy. Italy economy is growing rapidly. The Depression seems to be benefitting Italy, although paradoxial.

May 16: The free countries of India and Pakistan fight a brief but devastating war. Thousands of citizens are killed.

July 5: Portugal joins Italy's Alliance of Facsism. This Alliance is tighter and more secure than the previous one.

November 21: Hitler discusses the reasons to reform the German government with Hindenburg. Mussolini sends a message dictating that Italy will assist Germany if they are paid back. Hindnburg accepts.

December 11: Much of southern Austria is annexed by Italy. Most Austrians agree with the decision, judging from how content Italian citizens are.

1933
January 30: Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. His movement still relies heavily on Italian support.

March 4: All of Austria is added to Italy. Germany is becoming nervous with the expansion of the powerful nation in the south.

March 20: Dachau is completed. Mussolini and Hitler agree that the Jews and other "undesirables" will be sent to Italy instead.

March 23: Hitler officially becomes dictator of Germany. Mussolini is wary and orders a massive spying of Germany.

April 5: Norway withdraws troops from Greenland. Germany establishes the Aryan Alliance with Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.

October 17: Albert Einstein and several thousand other Jews arrive in Italy. Germany demands that the refugees are deported back north. Mussolini refuses.

December 29: Iron Guard assassins kill the prime minister of Romania. Mussolini sends troops to keep the situation calm.

1934
February 6: An attempted coup in France. The French are more wary of German and Italian motives now. Italy buys Tunisia for a large amount of money and France drops any grudges against Italy.

April 10: Second major wave of German refugees to Italy. Many are sent to settle Tunisia.

June 12: Bulgaria becomes facsist. Romania follows soon after.

August 2: Hitler becomes Fuhrer. Mussolini officially cuts all ties with Germany. War looms overhead.

November 13: Mussolini donates a chunk of his own salary towards the school fund. Several of his advisors do so as well. The horrors of Nazi Germany are taught in schools to older, mature children.

1935
March 12: Fascist coup in Greece. The new government is pro-Italy. Mussolini accepts Greece as an ally against the growing threat of Germany and it's allies.

July 5: Salazar becomes dictator of Portugal. He swears allegiance to Mussolini and Italy and pledges to help fight the Nazis in Germany.

October 2: Invasion of Ethiopia. The Italians take the whole country in a week. Rather than Ethiopia becoming a colony, Mussolini starts an Italian puppet state. Abyssnia, the puppet state, is a fascist regime and almost fully dependent on Italy.

December 19: Japan becomes an ally of Italy. Hitler calls Tojo a "backstabbing traitor". Italy sends Japan economic support in exchange for the promise of a colony.

1936
February 3: Italo-Bulgarian War. Bulgaria invades Macedonia. Greece assists by sending supplies and food, but doesn't fight directly.

May 22: The governmetn of Greece is overthrown and replaced by a totalarianism. The new dictator has close ties with Italy. Greece is officially an ally of Italy.

July: All of Southeast Asia is under Japanese control. Southern China becomes the Emperor's priority.

July 18: Franco starts the Spanish Civil War. Italy donates huge funds to Franco's war efforts. Salazar helps out as well. Thousands of Spanish refugees flee to Italy.

October 19: The Italo-Bulgarian War has come to a trench war eerily similar to the Great War. Bulgaria invades the part of Greece that it lost after the Great War. Mussolini is furious, and declares that for this offense, he will not stop until all of Bulgaria is under his control.

December 12: To encourage joining the Italian Military, Mussolini passes an act that gives free college and cash benefits to veterans or distinguished soldiers. It works, to say the least. Over two hundred thousand men sign up in the first month.

1937
February 6: The battle of Jarama. With heavy Italian support, Franco's forces destroy the enemy troops. It is a major turning point. The Rupublican forces are extremely stretched and worn down. Franco pushes deep into enemy territory.

April 9: Italians push deep into Bulgaria. The battle of Sofia takes more than two hundred thousand Bulgarian lives. Italy is soon kicked out of the city.

July 7: Battle of Lugou Bridge. Japan and China are engaged in a fullout war. Italy sends men and planes to assist. The war repidly turns in favor of Japan.

August 7: Madrid is captured by Franco's forces. Major turning point in the Spanish Civil War.

September 12: Italian soldiers reach the Black Sea. Bulgaria is finally captured. Mussolini adopts the policy of setting up allied puppet states rather that absorbing entire conquered countries. The west and south portions of Bulgaria are part of Italy, and the puppet state is set up in the north corner.

November 23: The Czechoslovakia Split. Italy and Germany split Czechoslovakia roughly along the modern Czech Republic/Slovakia borders. Italy recieves what is now Slovakia. The threat of war between the two countries disappears. In the Prague Conference, Germany agrees to follow Mussolini's policy of setting up puppet states.

1938
January 15: Start of third mass exodus from Germany to Italy. Mussolini instructs the new citizens to populate the recently gained territories in Slovakia and Austria.

April 29: Italy starts its Atomic Weapons Program. Fermi and Einstein both work for Mussolini, greatly influencing the project's success. The project is due to be done by late 1941.

June 11: Mussolini buys Sudan from Britain for over two hundred million dollars. Plans are drawn up to build a railroad from Tunisia to Italian Somaliland.

September 19: Hitler makes a speech about how the Aryan people have waited long enough for their living space. Thousands of troops prepare at the Polish border for the go-head for blitzkrieg. Mussolini declares that if Germany goes to war, he will take at least a monthe to decide whether to join or not.

November 4: The German Invasion of Poland. Poland is captured within a month. Thousands of Jews and other "undesirables" from Poland are carted off to Italy. Mussolini pays for their feeding, housing, and transportation.