Unification of Italy

By MrAwesome96

  • Napoleon I is defeated

  • Congress of Vienna begins

    Works to restore old leader which had been removed by NapoleonWants to return the European nations ro original bordersExcluded France and Germany and Hallon

  • National uprisings in Italy fail to unify it

  • Giuseppe Mazzini founds the Young Italy Society

    The Young Italy Society was supposed to drive Austria out of the peninsula which is now Italy and establish an Italian Republic
  • Period: to

    King Charles unsuccessfully fights Austria twice

  • Cavour becomes prime minister of Sardinia under Victor Emanuel II

  • France gets Savoy and Nice while Italy gets Lombardy

  • Period: to

    Cavour modernizes Sardinia

  • Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Piedmont

  • Italy Joins France in fighting in the Crimean War

  • Piedmont sends 10 thousand troops help France and Britain capture Sebastapol

  • Napoleon III promises Cavour to help Italy fight Austria and become indapendent

  • Attempted assassination of Napoleon III

  • Cavour and Napoleon III meet to provoke a war in Italy to permit the dereat of Austria

  • Napoleon III and Cavour make a formal treaty

  • Napoleon sends troops to help Italy

  • Austria attacks Sardia

  • Autria is defeated Magenta and Solfernio

  • Napoleon III made peace with Austria at Villafranca

  • Garibaldi captures Palmero and prepared to attack the mainland of Italy

  • Naples and Sicily join the Italian kingdom

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