Unification of Italy

  • Period: to

    Carbonari Active

  • Defeat of Napoleon

  • Period: to

    Major Carbonari Insurrections

  • Young Italy founded

    Mazzini
  • Period: to

    Charles Albert Piedmontese King

  • Garibaldi joins Young Italy

  • Pope Pius IX elected

  • Roman Republic Created

    Mazzini and Garibaldi
  • Revolution in France

    Elected president Louis Napoleon, becomes Napoleon III
  • Removal of Charles Albert

    He granted a constitution
  • Period: to

    "Republican Phase"

  • Siccardi Laws

    D'Azeglio
  • Period: to

    Victor Emmanuel King of Piedmont

  • Period: to

    Cavour Prime Minister

  • Period: to

    Crimean War

  • Austria relaxes grip on Lombardy and Venetia

    Due to English and French sympathy for Piedmont
  • Austria announces amnesty

    For political prisoners in Lombardy and Ventia
  • Orsini affair

    The attempted assassination of Napoleon III in Paris by Italian nationalists backed by the French.
  • Plombières Agreement

    Napoleon III and Cavour
  • Establishment of dictatorships in Tuscany, Parma and Modena

    Luigi Farini, Ricasoli in Florence
  • Villafranca Accords

  • Expedition of the Thousand

    Garibaldi OWNS
  • Capitulation of Neapolitan forces

  • Emilia and Tuscany to Piedmont, Savoy and Nice to France

    Plebiscites
  • Kingdom of Italy officially created

    Victor Emanuel as king