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Congress of Vienna European powers met to repair the damages done by the Napoleonic wars.
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Austrians regained domination over the Italian pininsula and Italy lived mostly in peace
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The young revolutionary set up a national revolution known as Young Italy. Mazzini wanted a united republic, his ideas spread quickly through the Italian pininsual.
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These reforms were ment to weeken the revolutionary movements but actuall led to the revolutions of 1848
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Victor Emmanuel II overthrows his father and becomes the king of Italy
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Count Camillo di Cavour became prime minister of Sardinia-Piedmont
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Cavour had caused a crisis that provoked the Austrians to send an ultimatum demanding Piedmontese disarment. Cavour rejected the ultimatum, and the Austrians declared war. Austria was defeated by the French and Piedmontese. Austrians surrender Lombardy to Napoleon III whom gives it to Emmanuel.
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All Northern sates voted to join Sardinia Napoleon III leaves them to fight the war alone due to their sudden large size. Also due to the new found large size Napoleon III demanded Savoy and Nice for France. Afterwards, the only french troops in Italy were kept in Rome at at the request of the pope.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Genoa with the Thousand Red Shirts and freed Naples and Sicily from the Boubon king and he gave the land to Victor Emmanuel.
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Venetia is added to Italy after Prussia defeats Austria in the Seven Weeks' War.
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Napoleon III withdrawls his troops when the Franco-Prussian war erupts and the Italians move into Rome with no oppostion.
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Rome becomes the capital of Italy after Rome votes for the Union of Rome and Italy. Rome became the capital of United Italy