Italian unification
March 18, 1848 – January 26, 1871 · Italian peninsula
Related events
Political and military movement, the Risorgimento, that joined the states of the Italian peninsula into the Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed in 1861, with Rome as capital from 1871.
Key people
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Prime Minister of Sardinia, Directed unification through diplomacy and war
Giuseppe Garibaldi
General, Conquered Sicily and Naples with the Thousand
Giuseppe Mazzini
Revolutionary, Inspired the nationalist movement
Victor Emmanuel II
King of Sardinia, then of Italy, Became the first King of Italy in 1861
Participants
Battles 1
- Expedition of the Thousand May 5 – October 26, 1860
