Garibaldi and the Risorgimento (In Our Time)
1860 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Italian Risorgimento. According to the historian AJP Taylor, Garibaldi was the only wholly admirable figure in modern history. Born in Nice in 1807, one of Garibaldi's aims in life was the unification of Italy and, in large part thanks to him, Italy was indeed united substantially in 1861 and entirely in 1870.
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Around 1860
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- Crimean War (1853)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)