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Members of the Last Generation activist group pour charcoal into the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy, turning the water black.
2023-05-21

Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the ministers of his cabinet are officially sworn in at the Quirinal Palace in Rome, ending the government crisis.
2021-02-13

Fabrizio Soccorsi, Pope Francis' personal physician, dies as a result of "complications due to COVID-19", according to Vatican newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano".
2021-01-9

Voters in the Italian capital of Rome go to the polls for a runoff election to select a new Mayor of Rome with exit polls showing Virginia Raggi of the Five Star Movement will become the first female Mayor.
2016-06-19

Cardinal George Pell, the third most senior person in the Roman Catholic Church, gives evidence to the Royal Commission in Rome dealing with his time as a priest in the Australian cities of Ballarat and Melbourne.
2016-02-28

Pope Francis, in an Apostolic Letter, done "Motu Proprio" (Latin: "On his own initiative"), creates the Secretariat for Communications, the second such Secretariat he has created, after the earlier Secretariat for the Economy, as part of a reform of the Roman Curia (Secretariats are the highest level of Curial dicastery, or department). It will incorporate Vatican Information Service (VIS), the News.va and Pope apps, the Vatican Television Center, the Vatican.va website and .va domain name, the L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, the Holy See Press Office, Vatican Radio, and the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. He named the Reverend Monsignor Dario Edoardo Vigano, formerly the Vatican Television Center Director, as the first Prefect.
2015-06-27

Roman Catholic Cardinals meet in Rome in a conclave to appoint a successor to Pope Benedict XVI.
2013-03-12

Two parcel bombs explode at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in central Rome, Italy. One person is seriously injured. Officials suspect that the perpetrators are from an Italian anarchist group.
2010-12-23

The MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome wins the Stirling Prize, a British architectural award given by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
2010-10-2

Researchers from four Italian universities identify human remains discovered in a church in Tuscany as "almost certainly" being those of Renaissance artist Caravaggio.
2010-06-16