Italian unification (Risorgimento)
1859–1870 · Event
Political and social movement that consolidated the various states of the Italian peninsula into a single kingdom under the House of Savoy, completed with the capture of Rome in 1870.
On these timelines: Italy (post-476 CE), Master
More from Italy (post-476 CE)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Galileo's telescope and Sidereus Nuncius (1610)
- Kingdom of Italy proclaimed (1861)
- Benito Mussolini (1883)
- Galileo's trial by the Inquisition (1633)
- Italian Republic founded (1946)
- Italy enters WW1 on Entente side (1915)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) ends (1871)
Around 1859
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)