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Cavour becomes Prome Miniter
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Garbaldi landed in Sicily
At the beginning of April 1860, uprisings in Messina and Palermo in the independent and peaceful Kingdom of the Two Sicilies provided Garibaldi with an opportunity. He gathered about a thousand volunteers (practically all northern Italians, and called i Mille (the Thousand), or, as popularly known, the Redshirts) in two ships named Piemonte and Lombardo, left from Genoa on May 5 in the evening and landed at Marsala, on the westernmost point of Sicily, on May 11. -
Victor Emanuel II king of Italy
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Polish Rebellion
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North German Confederation
The North German Confederation (German: Norddeutscher Bund) 1866-71, was an independent country comprising 22 states of northern Germany. It was dominated Chancellor Otto von Bismarck of the Kingdom of Prussia, which had 80% of the population. In 1871 it became the basis of the German Empire, which adopted most parts of the federation's constitution and its flag. -
Second Reform Act
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Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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Napoleon III captured
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Proclomation of German Empire - King Wilhelm of Prussia was proclaimed 'German Emperor' on 18 January 1871 in the Hall of Mirrors in the Château de Versailles
King Wilhelm of Prussia was proclaimed 'German Emperor' on 18 January 1871 in the Hall of Mirrors in the Château de Versailles.[ -
Bismark becomes Prime Minister of Germany
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Public Health Act
The Public Health Act of 1875 was established in the United Kingdom to combat filthy urban living conditions -
Assasination of Alexander II
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J'Accuse
The letter was addressed to President of France Félix Faure, and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer sentenced to penal servitude for life for espionage. Zola pointed out judicial errors and lack of serious evidence. The letter was printed on the front page of the newspaper, and caused a stir in France and abroad. Zola was prosecuted and found guilty of libel on 23 February 1898. To avoid imprisonment, he fled to