The important Gavi family of Augusta Taurinorum (Turin) built a farmhouse here, probably in the 1st century AD; to corroborate this thesis there are some random finds of necropolis materials in the fields at the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Bussone (Villa village) and a stretch of paving at the bridge of the Tortorello torrent.

Giaveno returned to the abbots of San Michele on February 21, 1209, with a donation from the Count of Savoy Tommaso I, who fortified the square with a robust wall and built a castle there.

Subsequently, in 1347, Abbot Rodolfo di Mombello decided to "villam iavenni murare", with two trebuchet walls (about 6 meters high), interspersed with five circular towers.

The Marshal of France Nicolas Catinat invaded Piedmont, setting it on fire, and, after the French victory at the battle of Marsaglia (1693), Giaveno suffered looting and burning.

Important pages of history were written during the Resistance period in World War II (1943–1945), which saw the partisans and the entire population rise up against German and Fascist forces.