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In 1820 Spaniards successfully revolted over disputes about their constitution. their movement influenced the development of a similar movement in Italy founded by Giuseppe Mazzini called young Italy
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In 1848, the revolution began on January 5 with a civil disobedience strike in Lombardy, as citizens stopped smoking and playing the lottery austria could'nt profit from the associated tax revenue.
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A short war that ended with the joining of Tuscany, Parma, Modena, and the Legations into the United Provinces of Central Italy the first nation state
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on June 20, Italy declared war on Austria. Within the context of Italian unification, the Austro-Prussian war is called Third Independence War, after the First (1848) and the Second (1859) this war sadly ended in Italy's defeat on August 12th
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The capital of the Kingdom of Italy is officially moved from Florence to Rome.