Sette Giugno in Malta
Sette Giugno in Malta is held on June 7. This event in the first decade of the month June is annual. Help us
In the aftermath of the First World War, with the disruptions in agriculture and industry across the whole of the continent, the Maltese colonial government failed to provide an adequate supply of basic food provisions for the islands. The cost of living increased dramatically after the war. Political developments were also a fundamental cause of the uprising.
Sette Giugno, or 'Seventh of June' in Italian, is an annual Maltese national festival commemorating events that occurred on June 7, 1919. Following a series of uprisings by the Maltese population, British forces fired into the crowd, killing four and wounding 50 people.
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