The unification of Italy unfolded across more than two decades of the mid-nineteenth century, beginning amid the continent-wide revolutions of 1848 and 1849, when an early Italian war of independence against Austrian rule in northern Italy ended in defeat. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, revived the movement in the 1850s through economic modernization and a French alliance that secured Lombardy from Austria after the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859. The following year, the revolutionary commander Giuseppe Garibaldi led a volunteer force known as the Expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in southern Italy, and on 17 March 1861 the Kingdom of Italy was formally proclaimed under Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia as its first king. Unification was completed in September 1870, when Italian forces captured Rome from the Papal States during the Franco-Prussian War, and Rome was formally designated the new kingdom's capital in 1871, ending centuries of political fragmentation across the Italian peninsula.
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Italy celebrates the anniversary of the unification on 17 March (the date of proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy).
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the annexation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles to the Kingdom of Sardinia
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Italy celebrates the anniversary of the unification on 17 March (the date of proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy).
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The unification of Italy unfolded across more than two decades of the mid-nineteenth century, beginning amid the continent-wide revolutions of 1848 and 1849, when an early Italian war of independence against Austrian rule in northern Italy ended in defeat.
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The unification of Italy (Italian: Unità d'Italia [uniˈta ddiˈtaːlja]), also known as the Risorgimento (Italian: [risordʒiˈmento]; lit. 'Resurgence'), was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 ended in the annexation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles to the Kingdom of Sardinia, resulting in the creation of the Kingdom of Italy.
In Group: Events of Unification and Reform, 1860 to 1874, Lead
'Resurgence'), was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 ended in the annexation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles to the Kingdom of Sardinia, resulting in the creation of the Kingdom of Italy.
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