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Updated: 16 May 2018
Timeline leading to Italian Unification
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Created byemma arrieta
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Events
Mazzini founded
Young Italy.Mazzini helps set
up a revolutionary
republic in Rome.Victor Emmanuel names
Count Camillo Cavour
prime minister.Sardina joins
Britain and France in
Crimean War.Cavour defeats Austria.
Nationalist groups overthrew
Austrian-Backed rulers in
Northern Italian states.Garibaldi and his "Red Shirts" capture Sicily
and Naples. He gives both regions
to Victor Emmanuel.Victor Emmanuel II is
crowned king of Italy.Camillo Cavour dies.
June 6, 1861.Official proclamation
of the Kingdom of italy.Garibaldi sails from Genoa to
Palermo to gather volunteers
for an expedtion.Garibaldi sails for Melito on
the Southern Coast of Italy
and vows to march to Rome.Garibaldi meets government troops
at Aspromonte and is imprisoned.Victor emmanuel II
meets with Napoleon III
at a convention and Napoleon
agrees to withdraw French Troops
from the Papal States.Capital moves from Turin to Florence.Italy enters the Austro-Prussian
war against Austria.Italian forces under Garibaldi are
against Austria at Bezzecca, and
move forward to venetia.Prussia signs armistice with Austria.Italy ends war with Austria after Prussia
sign armistice.Garibaldi seeks Rome and Papal
states but fail, revolutions inside
of Rome are also suppressed.Napoleon III calls back troops
from Rome.Italian Army slowly advanced towards
Rome.Italian forces enter Rome
with some casualties and after
Rome is annexed by the kingdom of Italy.The capital of the Kingdom of Italy
is moved from Florence to Roem.
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