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| 1922 |
| | | Mussolini gives orders for armed squads to congregate around Rome, in preparation for a march to seize power in the capital | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Italian king Victor Emmanuel III, alarmed at the prospect of a Fascist march on Rome, asks Mussolini to form a government | |
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| 1922 |
| | | A triumphant Mussolini arrives in Rome on the overnight train from Milan to take up his appointment as prime minister | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Columns of blackshirts, brought into Rome for the day, parade before Mussolini and the king | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Benito Mussolini sets up a Fascist Grand Council as a token assembly to conceal his authoritarian rule | |
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| 1923 |
| | | With Mussolini already installed as Il Duce, his party wins 65% of the votes in a general election | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The Italian novelist Italo Svevo has his first great success when The Confessions of Zeno is published in France | |
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| 1924 |
| | | The Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is murdered by Mussolini's Fascists | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Ottorino Respighi's symphonic poem Pines of Rome has its first performance in Rome | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Giacomo Puccini dies without finishing his opera Turandot, which is subsequently completed by Franco Alfani | |
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