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Period: to
Giuseppe Garibaldi's lifetime
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Period: to
Fewer Italians agreed to live under foreign rulers
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Young Italy
Led by Giuseppe Mazzini who set up a national revolutionary movement. -
Period: to
Massive reforms
Massive reforms within Papal STates, Lucca, Tuscany, and Kingdom of Sardinia. These were intended to weaken revolutionary movements. However, it just brought in more revolutions from surrounding countries. -
Italian Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia adopts a liberal constitution
A good idea to middle class, but not peasants. -
Revolutions of 1848 in Italy
First revolt was in Kingdom of Sicily. -
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Final stages of Unification in Italy
Count Camillo di Cavour becomes prime minister of Sardinia-Piedmont in 1852. -
French emperor Napoleon III Agrees to help drive Austria out of Italy
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Cavour causes crisis that scares Austrians
Austrians demand Piedmontese disarmament. -
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Elections held
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Italian army captures Sicily
Small Italian army captures Sicily, led by Giuseppe Garibaldi. -
Venetia added to Italy
Venetia added to Italy after Prussia defeated Austria in the Seven Weeks' War -
Austrian province of Venetia becomes part of Italy.
