Unification of Italy

Napoleon I is defeated

Jan 4, 1815

Congress of Vienna begins

Jan 4, 1815

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

Dec 15, 1831

Giuseppe Mazzini founds the Young Italy Society

Dec 15, 1831

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

King Charles unsuccessfully fights Austria twice

Period: Dec 15, 1848 to Dec 15, 1849

Cavour becomes prime minister of Sardinia under Victor Emanuel II

Jan 4, 1852

France gets Savoy and Nice while Italy gets Lombardy

Jan 4, 1852

Cavour modernizes Sardinia

Period: Jan 4, 1852 to Jan 4, 1859

Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Piedmont

Dec 15, 1852

Italy Joins France in fighting in the Crimean War

Jan 4, 1855

Piedmont sends 10 thousand troops help France and Britain capture Sebastapol

Dec 15, 1855

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

Jan 4, 1858

Attempted assassination of Napoleon III

Jan 15, 1858

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

Jul 15, 1858

Napoleon III and Cavour make a formal treaty

Dec 15, 1858

Napoleon sends troops to help Italy

Jan 4, 1859

Austria attacks Sardia

Jan 4, 1859

Autria is defeated Magenta and Solfernio

Jun 4, 1859

Napoleon III made peace with Austria at Villafranca

Jul 11, 1859

Garibaldi captures Palmero and prepared to attack the mainland of Italy

May 15, 1860

Naples and Sicily join the Italian kingdom

Dec 15, 1860