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| 1197 |
| | | The three-year old Frederick II has a claim to the thrones of both Sicily and Germany on the death of his father, the emperor Henry VI | |
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| 1255 |
| | | The pope, eager to fill the vacant throne of Sicily, offers it to a son of Henry III of England but gets no firm response | |
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| 1263 |
| | | Pope Urban IV offers Sicily to a French prince, Charles of Anjou, who marches south in 1266 to fight for the kingdom | |
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| 1272 |
| | | Edward I is in Sicily when he becomes king of England, on the death of his father, Henry III | |
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| 1281 |
| | | An incident in a church service sparks the uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers, in which 2000 French are killed overnight in Sicily | |
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| 1442 |
| | | Naples is captured by Alfonso V, breaking the link with France and uniting Sicily and Naples as an Aragonese kingdom | |
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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Sicily in January starts off Europe's 'year of revolutions' | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Garibaldi lands at Marsala in Sicily in May with his thousand Redshirts, and wins control of the island for the king in waiting, Victor Emmanuel II | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Garibaldi crosses from Sicily to the mainland and by September is in Naples | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Europe's worst earthquake, centred on the Strait of Messina, kills up to 200,000 people in Sicily and southern Italy. | |
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