Italian Liberal Party
- 1848: Cammillo Benso di Cavour formes a parliamentarty group in the Kingdom of Sardinia Parliament named "Italian Liberal Party" (Partito Liberale Italiano)
- 1922: Conservative liberals, remnants of the Historical Right (Destra Storica), by then called Liberal-Conservatives (Liberal-Conservatori), and members of Giovanni Giolitti's Liberal Left (Sinistra Liberale), which until then acted only as parliamentary factions nor as organised parties, formed the Italian Liberal Party (Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI)
- 1926: The party was banned
- 1943: Renmants of the old liberal current organised themselves in the conservative-liberal Italian Liberal Party (Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI)
- 1994: After the collapse of the party system, the left-wing of the party formed the Federation of Italian Liberals (Federazione dei Liberali Italiani, FdL), the centre-right the Union of Centre (Unione di Centro, UdC) and the Liberal Party (Partito Liberale, PL), the right-wing the Italian Liberal Right (Destra Liberale Italiana, DLI), which elected some candidates on the electoral list of the National Alliance, while many other centrist members joined Forza Italia
- 1996: FdL joined the Democratic Union
- 1998: UdC merged into Forza Italia
- 1999: FdL formed an electoral alliance with the Italian Republican Party
- 2004: Splinters from FdL formed the Association for Liberal Democracy (Associazione per la Democrazia Liberale), which joined Democracy is Freedom, whilst the Liberal Party and the Italian Liberal Right (now called Liberals for Italy, Liberali per l'Italia) re-established the Italian Liberal Party (2004) (Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI)
- 2007: the PLI formed an alliance with the Italian Republican Party
Read more about this topic: Liberalism And Radicalism In Italy, Timeline
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