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Chronicle VII of IX

The Napoleonic Period & the Risorgimento

Risorgimento

Mazzini, Cavour and Garibaldi make a nation, from Napoleon to the capture of Rome.

Span
1796 – 1871 AD
Entries
16

  1. French InvasionMilitary

    Napoleon's First Italian Campaign

    A young General Bonaparte sweeps into northern Italy, routing the Austrians and Piedmontese and overturning the old order of the peninsula in a single dazzling campaign.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  2. Fall of VenicePolitical

    Treaty of Campo Formio Ends the Venetian Republic

    Napoleon extinguishes the thousand-year-old Republic of Venice and hands it to Austria, while founding the Cisalpine Republic in Lombardy as a French satellite.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  3. Sister RepublicsPolitical

    The Parthenopean Republic of Naples

    Neapolitan revolutionaries proclaim a short-lived republic that is crushed within months, its leading intellectuals executed in a royalist reaction.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  4. Kingdom of ItalyPolitical

    Napoleon Crowned with the Iron Crown

    In Milan Cathedral, Napoleon places the ancient Iron Crown of Lombardy on his own head as King of Italy, binding the peninsula's north to his new empire.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  5. Napoleonic SouthPolitical

    Murat, King of Naples, Reforms the South

    Joachim Murat, Napoleon's cavalry marshal, takes the throne of Naples and abolishes feudalism, modernising the administration of the Mezzogiorno.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  6. RestorationPolitical

    The Congress of Vienna Restores the Old Order

    With Napoleon defeated, the great powers restore the old dynasties and give Austria mastery of a fragmented Italy of restored kingdoms and duchies.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  7. The CarbonariPolitical

    The Carbonari Revolts

    Secret societies rise in Naples and Piedmont demanding constitutions, only to be crushed by Austrian arms — the first stirrings of the Risorgimento.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  8. Young ItalyPolitical

    Mazzini Founds Young Italy

    From exile, Giuseppe Mazzini founds Giovine Italia, preaching a democratic, republican, and united Italy made by the will of its own people.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  9. 8 more entries, to 1871