April 20: Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected President with 738 votes in the sixth ballot amid widespread protests by MPs eager to elect Stefano Rodotà. Napolitano is the first president in the history of Italy to be re-elected for a second term.
During the government swearing-in ceremony, a man shoots outside Palazzo Chigi, wounding two Carabinieri and a bystander.
May 3: Twenty people were injured and more than one hundred houses were damaged in a series of tornadoes in Northern Italy.
May 7: The cargo ship Jolly Nero impacts the control tower of the port of Genoa, with the consequent collapse of the latter and the killing of 11 people.
July 28: A coach plunged off a flyover in southern Italy, leaving 39 people dead and 8 injured.
August 4: Silvio Berlusconi is convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to four years imprisonment.
October 3: At least 339 African migrants have died and 50 are missing after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
October 18: Italian government conducted Operation Mare Nostrum to tackle the significant increase of migratory flows to Europe.[2]
November 17–19: At least 18 people died in Sardinia following the massive floods caused by the Cleopatra cyclone.
November 27: The Senate expelled former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from his seat in Parliament following his conviction for tax fraud.[3]
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Netherlands won the gold medal table. 
Tony Martin (GER) won the most gold medals (both 2).