Dates

Question 1

Congress of Vienna, redivides Italy into 13 States

Answer 1

June 1815

Question 2

Naples rising against Ferdinand I

Answer 2

July 1820

Question 3

Piedmont rising against Victor Emmanuel I

Answer 3

March 1821

Question 4

First risings in Modena and Parma

Answer 4

February 1831

Question 5

Mazzini starts Young Italy

Answer 5

March 1831

Question 6

Vincenzo Gioberti publishes nationalist work: Primato morale e civile degli Italiani

Answer 6

1843

Question 7

Cesare Balbo publishes his nationalist work: Le speranze d’Italia

Answer 7

1844

Question 8

Election of Pius IX as Pope

Answer 8

June 1846

Question 9

Revolution begins in Sicily

Answer 9

January 1848

Question 10

Pope issues Constitution

Answer 10

February 1848

Question 11

Rome declared a Republic

Answer 11

February 1849

Question 12

Charles Albert issues Statuto

Answer 12

March 1848

Question 13

Piedmont joins forces with Lombardy and declares war on Austria

Answer 13

March 1848

Question 14

Austria crushes Piedmont at Battle of Custoza

Answer 14

July 1848

Question 15

Austria crushes Piedmont at Battle of Novara and Charles Albert abdicates

Answer 15

March 1849

Question 16

Fall of Manin’s Venetian Republic

Answer 16

August 1849

Question 17

Siccardi Laws passed in Piedmont

Answer 17

March 1850

Question 18

Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Piedmont

Answer 18

1852

Question 19

Railway line linking Milan, Turin and Genoa to French border

Answer 19

1854

Question 20

Piedmont joins Crimean War

Answer 20

1855

Question 21

Cavour squashes Mazzinian uprising in Milan

Answer 21

February 1853

Question 22

Electric telegraph between Turin and Paris

Answer 22

1853

Question 23

The Congress of Paris

Answer 23

1856

Question 24

National Society formed

Answer 24

1857

Question 25

Plombieres Pact

Answer 25

July 1858

Question 26

Piedmont and France declare war on Austria

Answer 26

April 1859

Question 27

Battle of Magenta

Answer 27

May 1859

Question 28

Nationalist uprisings in Central Duchies

Answer 28

May 1859

Question 29

Battle of Solferino

Answer 29

June 1859

Question 30

Treaty of Villafranca (giving Lombardy to Piedmont)

Answer 30

July 1859

Question 31

Cavour returns to office after post-Villafranca resignation

Answer 31

January 1860

Question 32

Central Duchies annexed to Piedmont after plebiscites

Answer 32

March 1860

Question 33

Garibaldi and his volunteer army land in Sicily

Answer 33

May 1860

Question 34

Garibaldi invades Naples

Answer 34

August 1860

Question 35

Piedmont invades Papal States, annexing Marches and Umbria

Answer 35

September 1860

Question 36

Garibaldi hands Naples and Sicily to Piedmont at Teano

Answer 36

October 1860

Question 37

Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy

Answer 37

March 1861

Question 38

Orsini Affair

Answer 38

January 1858

Question 39

Death of Cavour

Answer 39

June 1861

Question 40

Garibaldi fails in attempt to capture Rome

Answer 40

1862

Question 41

September Convention

Answer 41

September 1864

Question 42

Syllabus of Errors issued

Answer 42

December 1864

Question 43

Venetia ceded to Italy after Austro-Prussian War

Answer 43

1866

Question 44

French defeat Garibaldi at Mentana in his second failed attempt to capture the city

Answer 44

1867

Question 45

Doctrine of Papal Infallability

Answer 45

July 1870

Question 46

French withdraw troops from Rome as Franco-Prussian War begins

Answer 46

August 1870

Question 47

Rome annexed to Italy after Plebiscite

Answer 47

October 1870