Side by side
France and Italy compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
10 August 843 — The Treaty of Verdun gives Charles the Bald West Francia
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- 3
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- 2026-08-10
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Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 1494
French invasion and the Italian Wars
The French invasion of 1494 opened decades of warfare in which France and Spain fought for control of Italy, exposing the weakness of its divided states.
War & Rupture · from the Italy chronicle · The Renaissance and the City-States · Italy (country overview and history)
- 1796–1814
Napoleonic reorganization of Italy
Napoleon's campaigns swept aside the old states and spread revolutionary, legal and national ideas across Italy, before the powers restored the former rulers in 1815.
Politics & Power · from the Italy chronicle · Foreign Domination and the Risorgimento · Italy (country overview and history)
- 10 June 1940
Italy enters the Second World War
Italy declared war on Britain and France, entering the Second World War as Germany's Axis ally, a decision that brought defeat, occupation and devastation.
War & Rupture · from the Italy chronicle · Liberal Italy, Fascism, War and the Republic · Italy (Fascism, racial laws and the Second World War), Italy (country overview and history)