The Unification of Italy

By Ruby Jacobs
  • Period: to

    Early Phase of the Italian Risorgimento

    The period of time in which Italy was fragmented in a number of small states, with the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont in northwestern Italy

  • Congress of Vienna

    Left Italy split into many states

  • Young Italy

    Gieseppe Mazzini set up a national revolutionary movement, in favor of a united republic
  • Period: to

    Reforms in the Italian states

    Brought about the revolutions of 1848

  • Revolutions of 1848

    In Sicily, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, and Turin
    Sicily-- constitution formed
    Rome-- Pope Pius IX fled
    Sardinia-- drove Ausrians from the north

  • Victor Emmanuel II

  • Count Camillo de Cavour-- prime minister

    Helped Italy achieved unification

  • Napoleon helps drive Austria out

    French emperor Napoleon III helped drive Austria out of the northern Italian provinces

  • Giuseppe Garibaldi

    Military leader, sailed with the Thousand Red Shirts and captured Sicily
    United southern areas of Italy with Piedmont-Sardinia

  • Italy is united

    Victor Emmanuel (king of Piedmont-Sardinia)-- first King of Italy

  • Venetia added to Italy

  • Rome is added and becomes capital of Italy

    Papal states were taken over, but the Pope continued to rule a small part of Rome known as Vatican City