Badoglio, Pietro

1871 - Born on the 28th of September in Grazzano Monferrato.

1890 - Graduated from military academy.

1895-1898 - Served his first campaign in Africa.

1906 - Attached to the general staff in Rome as a captain.

1911-1912 - Gained battlefield promotion to major in the Libyan campaign he became a lieutenant colonel of the general staff.

1916 - Badoglio brilliantly broke through the Austrian lines conquered Mount Sabotino (Gorizia).

1919 - Became senator and chief of army staff.

1924 - Appointed as ambassador to Brazil.

1926 - Chief of General Staff.

1929 - He was ennobled as the Marchese of Sabotino and was awarded the highest Italian honor, the Collar of the Annunziata.

1935 - Mussolini hastily appointed Badoglio supreme commissar, and he achieved a rapid, total victory in 1936.

1943 - Appointed the 72-year-old Badoglio prime minister with a mandate to end the war.

1944 - He held power precariously and only through Allied support, which ceased with Rome's liberation

1956 - He died 1st of November in Grazzano Monferrato.