Italian Unification Timeline

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    Congress of Vienna

    This event restored Austrian dominion over the Italian peninsula and left Italy broken apart into small city-states. This event helped Sardinia-Piedmont expand in terms of land and its merchant fleet.
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    Early Italian Risorgimento

  • Young Italy Movement

    Young Italy Movement

    This movement was sterted by Giuseppe Mazzini who was in favor of a united republic.
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    Cavour and the Final Stages of Italian Unification

  • Count Camillo di Cavour named prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia

    Count Camillo di Cavour named prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia

    Camillo di Cavour was a statesman who aimed to expand Sadinia into northern Italy

  • Giuseppe Giribaldi and the Thousand Red Shirts free Sicily and Naples

    Giribaldi and his army of volunteers known as the Thousand Red Shirts sailed to Genoa to free Sicily and Naples from the Bourbon King and give them to Victor Emanuel II
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    Franco-Prussian War

    Napoleon withdrew his troops from Rome because of this war. As a result, italian troops were able to move into Rome without opposition. The citizens of Rome voted for union with Italy and Rome became the capital of Italy