France annexes Nice and Savoy
1860 · Event
Napoleon III's price for helping Piedmont unite northern Italy: the Treaty of Turin hands France Savoy and Garibaldi's birthplace, Nice.
On these timelines: France, The Unification of Italy, Italy (post-476 CE), Master
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