Expedition of the Thousand
1860 · Event
Garibaldi's red-shirts conquer Sicily and Naples for the Italian crown; classic moment of 19th-century nationalism.
On these timelines: Master, Italy (post-476 CE)
Around 1860
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- 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)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Franco-Prussian War (1870)