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The Austrian Empire had goals against tiberal forces, since the Congress of Vienna. By the 1840's factories were forming and the Hapsburgs were having problems with the industrial life.
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In the 1830's Greece won independence. Numerous people revolted against the Ottomans. In the mid 1800's Europeans came to divide the Ottoman Empire. Russia too was fighting numerous wars against the Ottomans. Also, Britian and France were claiming Ottoman lands.
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German Confederation formed at Congress of Vienna.
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Italy starts their revolt
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Victor Emmanuel II takes over the Nationalist movement in Sardania
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Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Sardinia
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Felice Orsini attempts to assassinate Napoleon III and in a letter from prison for the emperor to help Italian nationalists. Cavour meets with Napoleon III in Plombieres and planned war with Austria that would benifit France and Sardinia with land gains. Cavour then provoked revolutions in Lombardy to begin war with Austria
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they started a war with Austria
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King Victor Emmanuel II was crowned again as King of Italy.
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Otto von Bismark becomes Prime Minister of Prussia
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Danish Prussian War Begins
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Otto and Austria invaded Denmark and took & split Schleswig & Holstein. Prussia got Schleswig & Austria got Holstein.
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Austro Prussian war and Battle of Koniggratz begins.
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The Hugarian nationialist made Austria and Hugary into a dual monarchy.
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Franco Prussian War begins.
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German Empire taken from North German Confederation
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The Congress of Berlin met
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Two German emperors die leading to three monarchs ruling Germany in one year.
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The Heligoland Zanzibar Treaty is created