1266    Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.

1343    A tsunami, caused by the earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.

1494    Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.

1495    King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.

1504    France cedes Naples to Aragon.

1516    The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognises Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor recognises Francis's claim to Milan.

1590    Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.

1629    An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.

1762    Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.

1906    Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

1943    World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.