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4th November 1852: Count Camillo Benso di Cavour appointed Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia

4th November 2025
Tagged as: Cavour, Crimean War, Italian Unification, Italy, Nationalism, Piedmont, Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel II

By the time of his death in 1861, shortly after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, Cavour’s vision of a unified and constitutional nation had largely been achieved.

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17th March 1861: Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy under the rule of Victor Emmanuel II

17th March 2025
Tagged as: Austria, Cavour, France, Garibaldi, Italian Unification, Italy, Nationalism, Papal States, Piedmont, Risorgimento, Rome, Savoy, Unification, Victor Emmanuel II

The Italian parliament convened in Turin to proclaim the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy under Victor Emmanuel II, previously King of Sardinia, who was declared the first King of Italy.

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4th November 1852: Count Camillo Benso di Cavour appointed Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia

17th March 1861: Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy under the rule of 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

14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David

12th September 1940: Prehistoric cave paintings discovered at Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwestern France

11th September 1978: Janet Parker becomes the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox

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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