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In 1844, two brothers from Venice, Attilio and Emilio Bandiera, members of Young Italy, planned to make a raid on the Calabrian coast against the Kingdom of Two Sicilies in support of Italian unification. They assembled a band of about twenty men ready to sacrifice their lives and set sail on their venture on 12 June 1844.
European integration is the process of industrial, economic, political, legal, social, and cultural integration of states wholly or partially in Europe, or nearby.European integration has primarily but not exclusively come about through the European Union and its policies.
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).
This is a timeline of the unification of Italy. 1849 – August 24: Venice falls to Austrian forces that have crushed the rebellion in Venetia; 1858 – Meeting at Plombieres: Napoleon III and Cavour decide to stage a war with Austria, in return for Piedmont gaining Lombardy, Venetia, Parma and Modena, and France gaining Savoy and Nice.
Garibaldi is also known as the "Hero of the Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in South America and Europe. [2] Garibaldi was a follower of the Italian nationalist Mazzini and embraced the republican nationalism of the Young Italy movement. [3] He became a supporter of Italian unification under a democratic republican government.
The Expedition of the Thousand (Italian: Spedizione dei Mille) was an event of the unification of Italy that took place in 1860. A corps of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto al Mare near Genoa and landed in Marsala, Sicily, in order to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, ruled by the Spanish House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. [3]
The complete unification of Italy took place only in 1918, after World War I. In this regard, the National Unity and Armed Forces Day (Victory Day) was established, which is celebrated annually on 4 November, recalling the Italian victory in World War I, a war event considered to complete the process of the unification of Italy. [100]
Extensive trade networks developed over time, linking Italian centers to a pool of relations from Asia to northern Europe. Italy's major trading cities (Pisa, Venice, Genoa, and Amalfi) took advantage of Western military expansion (the repeated Crusades), to which they offered logistical and financial services. Frequently, colonial and ...