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12th January 1848: The first of the Revolutions of 1848 begins in Palermo on the island of Sicily

12th January 2024
Tagged as: 1848, Austria, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Naples, Politics, Revolt, Revolution, Sicily

Beginning in Sicily, revolutions quickly spread across the continent and by the end of the year a series of uncoordinated uprisings had broken out in dozens of countries including France, Germany, and the Austrian Empire.

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26th October 1860: Garibaldi hands southern Italy to Victor Emmanuel II

26th October 2019
Tagged as: Britain, Garibaldi, Italian Unification, Italy, Naples, Sicily, Victor Emmanuel II, War

On the 26^th October 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi met with Victor Emanuel II, the King of Sardinia, at Teano and handed him control of southern Italy.

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12th January 1848: The first of the Revolutions of 1848 begins in Palermo on the island of Sicily

26th October 1860: Garibaldi hands southern Italy to Victor Emmanuel II

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

8th September 1941: Start of the Siege of Leningrad

7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz

6th September 1914: First Battle of the Marne begins with a French counter-offensive against the advancing German army

5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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