The Unification of Italy

Giuseppe Garibaldi's lifetime

Period: Jan 1, 1807 to Jan 1, 1882

Fewer Italians agreed to live under foreign rulers

Period: Jan 1, 1815 to Jan 1, 1848

Young Italy

Jan 1, 1831

Led by Giuseppe Mazzini who set up a national revolutionary movement.

Massive reforms

Period: Jan 1, 1846 to Jan 1, 1847

Massive reforms within Papal STates, Lucca, Tuscany, and Kingdom of Sardinia. These were intended to weaken revolutionary movements. However, it just brought in more revolutions from surrounding countries.

Italian Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia adopts a liberal constitution

Jan 1, 1848

A good idea to middle class, but not peasants.

Revolutions of 1848 in Italy

Feb 1, 1848

First revolt was in Kingdom of Sicily.

Final stages of Unification in Italy

Period: Jan 1, 1852 to Jan 1, 1870

Count Camillo di Cavour becomes prime minister of Sardinia-Piedmont in 1852.

French emperor Napoleon III Agrees to help drive Austria out of Italy

Jan 1, 1858

Cavour causes crisis that scares Austrians

Jan 1, 1859

Austrians demand Piedmontese disarmament.

Elections held

Period: Jan 1, 1859 to Jan 1, 1860

Italian army captures Sicily

Feb 3, 1860

Small Italian army captures Sicily, led by Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Venetia added to Italy

Jan 1, 1866

Venetia added to Italy after Prussia defeated Austria in the Seven Weeks' War

Austrian province of Venetia becomes part of Italy.

Jan 1, 1870