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sep 20, 1870 - Capture of Rome

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Final event of a long process of Italian unification known as the Risorgimento, marking both the final defeat of the Papal states under Pope Pius IX and the unification of the Italian Peninsula. After this event, the Pope permanently retired to the Vatican City, making it the home of the Pope from then until the present.

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sep 20, 1870
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~ 153 years ago