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Victor Emmanuel II (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; full name: Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di Savoia; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was King of Sardinia (also informally known as Piedmont–Sardinia) from 23 March 1849 until 17 March 1861, [a] when he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of an independent, united Italy since the 6th ...
The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument (Italian: Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II), also known as the Vittoriano or Altare della Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland"), is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy, in Rome, Italy. [2]
Pages in category "Victor Emmanuel II" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Victor Emmanuel as a teenager, 1886 Victor Emmanuel by photographer Carlo Brogi (son of Giacomo Brogi), 1895 Victor Emmanuel, caricature by Liborio Prosperi in Vanity Fair, 1902 Victor Emmanuel III was born in Naples in the Kingdom of Italy to King Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy , the Queen consort .
Victor Emmanuel may refer to: Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (1759–1824), Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820–1878), King of Sardinia and later King of Italy
The opening of the new legislature took place with the speech of the Crown pronounced by the King. The Senate in the reply voted on 26 February spoke explicitly of a new realm. The Chamber of Deputies in the response speech to Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy, written by Giuseppe Ferrari and dated 13 March 1861, already declared that:
The Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, known by the Venetians simply as the monument, located in Riva degli Schiavoni, in Castello, Venice, Italy. It is an equestrian statue made in 1887 by the Roman sculptor Ettore Ferrari .
Adelaide of Austria (Adelheid Franziska Marie Rainera Elisabeth Clotilde; 3 June 1822 – 20 January 1855) was Queen of Sardinia by marriage to Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia, future King of Italy, from 1849 until 1855 when she died as a result of gastroenteritis. She was the mother of Umberto I of Italy.