1941 in Italy

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See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Events from the year 1941 in Italy. This year was dominated by Italy's participation in the Second World War.

• King – Victor Emmanuel III^[1]
• Prime Minister – Benito Mussolini

• 3 January – World War II – North African Campaign – The Battle of Bardia occurs between Italian and Allied forces, mainly of the Australian Army, leading to the routing of the Italian Army and the fall of Bardia.^[2][3]
• 22 January – World War II – North African Campaign – The British capture Tobruk, capturing around 30 thousand Italian soldiers and intact port facilities.^[4]
• 11 February – World War II – North African Campaign – The German Afrika Korps, led by Erwin Rommel, a major general in the German Army, arrives in Italian Libya to support the Italian forces in the region.^[5]
• 6 April – World War II – The Axis Powers, including Italy, invades Yugoslavia.^[6][7]
• 10 April – World War II – North African Campaign – Italian forces in Libya, in conjunction with the Afrika Korps, besiege Tobruk.^[8]
• 17 April – World War II – Yugoslavia capitulates to the Axis invasion.^[9]
• 27 April – World War II – Greece capitulates to a German led invasion following the failure of Italy's previous invasion in 1940.^[9]
• 19 June – World War II – The Axis Powers, including Italy, expel all United States consuls and diplomatic staff, with a vacation date of 15 July.^[10]
• 22 June – World War II – Italy declares war on the Soviet Union, as apart of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis-invasion of the Soviet Union.^[9]
• 11 July – World War II – Seventeen Italian ships are seized in the United States under the Espionage Act of 1917.^[11]
• 11 December – World War II – Italy, in conjunction with Germany, declare war on the United States, following the United States declaration of war on Japan and the attack on Pearl Harbor.^[12][13]
• 18 December – World War II – Italy's Regia Marina launches a raid on Alexandria, a city in Egypt, disabling two battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet of the British Royal Navy.^[14]

• 19 June – Gilberto Benetton, businessman and co-founder of Benetton Group (d. 2018)^[15]
• 23 July – Sergio Mattarella, president of Italy since 2015^[16]
• 1 December – Federico Faggin, physicist, engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur^[17]

• 15 February – Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi, general of the Italian 1st Army during World War I (b. 1856)^[18]
• 25 June – Luigi Capello, general during the Italo-Turkish War and World War I (b. 1859)^[19]
• 8 September – Giuseppe Amisani, painter (b. 1881)^[20][21]
• 29 December
  • Tullio Levi-Civita, mathematician (b. 1873)^[22]
  • Luigi Albertini, politician and founder of Corriere della Sera (b. 1871)^[23]

• Military history of Italy during World War II

• Shaw, Antony (2007), World War II: Day By Day, New York City: Barnes & Noble, pp. 246–247, 253
• Withers, Harry. C (1945), "Summary of World War II", Southwest Review, vol. 31, no. 1, Southern Methodist University