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The Capture of Rome (Italian: Presa di Roma) occurred on 20 September 1870, as forces of the Kingdom of Italy took control of the city and of the Papal States. After a plebiscite held on 2 October 1870, Rome was officially made capital of Italy on 3 February 1871, completing the unification of Italy ( Risorgimento ).
The Sack of Rome, then part of the Papal States, followed the capture of Rome on 6 May 1527 by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, during the War of the League of Cognac. Charles V only intended to threaten military action to make Pope Clement VII come to his terms.
The 13 May 1871 Italian Law of Guarantees, passed eight months after the capture of Rome, was an attempt to solve the problem by making the pope a subject of the Kingdom of Italy, not an independent sovereign, while guaranteeing him certain honours similar to those given to the king and the right to send and receive ambassadors.
In the summer of 1944, after the Axis defeats at Cassino and Anzio, central Italy, including Rome, was liberated. Northern Italy was liberated following the final spring offensive and the general insurrection of Italian partisans on 25 April 1945. Mussolini was captured by the Italian resistance and summarily executed by firing squad.
Sack of Rome (390 BC) after the Battle of the Allia, by Brennus, king of the Senone Gauls; Sack of Rome (410), by Visigoths under Alaric I; Sack of Rome (455), by Vandals under Genseric; Sack of Rome (472), by Germanic foederati under Ricimer; Sack of Rome (546), by Ostrogoths under King Totila; Siege of Rome (549–550), also by Totila
One of its major issues was a mass migration of Germanic and other non-Roman peoples known as the Migration Period. which led to the sack of Rome in 410 by the Germanic Visigoths under Alaric. [2] Rome was sacked in 410, the first time the city had fallen since c. 387 BCE, by the Visigoths under Alaric I. [3]
Arab raid against Rome (846) Capture of Rome (1870), by the Kingdom of Italy; Liberation of Rome (1944), by the Allies during World War II; Fall of Rome (disambiguation) Sack of Rome (disambiguation) Battle of Rome (disambiguation) Battle for Rome (disambiguation)
The Goths captured a few unnamed cities and besieged the Western Roman capital Mediolanum. [27] Stilicho, now with Alan and Vandal federates in his army, relieved the siege, forcing a crossing at the Adda river. Alaric retreated to Pollentia. [37] On Easter Sunday, 6 April 402, Stilicho launched a surprise attack which became the Battle of ...