Lateran Treaty creates Vatican City
February 11, 1929
After sixty years of cold war between the Italian state and the Pope, Mussolini signed an agreement with Pius XI granting a tiny Vatican enclave full sovereignty. The Pope became a head of state again, the Church blessed the fascist order, and an awkward marriage began. Saint Peter's courtyard had its own country at last.
In context
Also in 1929 (4 other events on record)
- Wall Street crashes · North America · Politics
- Saint Valentine's Day Massacre · North America · Politics
- Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury · North America · Culture
- Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms · North America · Culture
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