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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Liberated Sicily, southern Italy, and the city of Naples from the French. -
1866
In exchange for Venezia, Italy supported Prussia in the war against Austria. A month later, Prussia defeated Austria, and Venice became part of the Kingdom of Italy. Civil registration became law. -
PRUSSIAN WAR
The Franco-Prussian War forced France to withdraw its troops from Rome. Italian troops from Rome conquered everything except the Vatican. -
Russo-Turkish War
February 25: Umberto I agrees to enter the conflict in favor of Romania, immediately afterwards, Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire, entering the Russo-Turkish War. -
Delimitation treaty
October 8: After several frictions and deliberations, the Kingdom of Italy and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland agree on a Somaliland-Somalia delimitation treaty that delimited the border of these colonies in Hargeysa/Berbera. -
1891
February 6: The President of the Council of Ministers, Francesco Crispi, is forced out of his government. -
1896
August 26: The Italians win the Italo-Ethiopian War after heavy casualties against Ethiopian forces, Menelik II surrenders and Ethiopia is annexed. -
1900
March 1: British and Italian squadrons are equipped with wireless telegraphy, which offers previously unknown possibilities for military coordination. -
1905
June 8: Death of the Spanish King Leopold I of Hohenzollern at the age of 69. He is succeeded by his son, King William of Hohenzollern. -
1911
November 23: For their part, the Kingdom of Greece, the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Spain would sign an Agricultural, Agricultural and Fisheries Cooperation Treaty, thus forming a very solid trade and mutual food bloc. -
1922
King Victor Emmanuel III made Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy. In 1925 Mussolini ruled as dictator. -
1936
Italy conquered Ethiopia. -
1939
Italy and Germany agreed to be allies if war broke out. Italy conquered Albania. -
1947
Italy signed a peace treaty at the end of World War II. As part of the treaty, Italy gave up its African empire (Libya, Italian Somaliland, and Eritrea), gave the Dodecanese Islands to Greece, and gave Albania its independence. -
1968
the 1970s were dominated by the specter of terrorism and great social unrest, especially in the universities. Neo-fascists carried out a bomb attack in Milan in 1968. -
1978
In 1978, the Red Brigades (a group of far-left youth responsible for several attacks) claimed their most prominent victim: former DC Prime Minister Aldo Moro; his kidnapping and murder some 54 days later rocked the country. -
1990
scandal of the Tangentopolis ("city of bribes"). Led by a group of Milanese magistrates, including the ruthless Antonio Di Pietro, the judicial process known as Mani Pulite (Clean Hands) involved thousands of politicians, officials and businessmen.