Person1805 – 1872
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian revolutionary who founded Young Italy and called for Italy to be united as a single republic
Where they went
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Cavour of the Kingdom of Sardinia joined the north and centre through diplomacy and war, and Garibaldi brought in the south; the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1861. Venice was added in 1866 and Rome in 1870, completing unification.
People who appear alongside
- Camillo Cavour1810 – 1861
Prime minister of Sardinia who led Italian unification through modernization and diplomacy, becoming the first prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861
- Giuseppe Garibaldi1807 – 1882
Italian soldier and revolutionary who in 1860 led the Thousand, the “Redshirts”, to conquer Sicily and Naples and handed them to the King of Sardinia
- Victor Emmanuel II1820 – 1878
King of Sardinia (1849–1861) and first king of united Italy (1861–1878)
- Napoleon III1808 – 1873
Louis-Napoléon, nephew of Napoleon I, elected president in 1848, who made himself emperor (1852–1870) by a coup but was captured in the Franco-Prussian War and deposed
Themes this person appears in
- Revolutions and Nation-States1776 – 1871
From the Declaration of Independence to the German Empire — a century in which liberalism and nationalism toppled the old order in Europe and the Americas and built nation-states