Unification of Italy
Garibaldi and Cavour forge a single kingdom
After Garibaldi's campaigns and the wars engineered by Prime Minister Cavour, the Kingdom of Italy under Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed in Turin. Unification was completed with Venice in 1866 and Rome in 1870.
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1861: Russia abolished serfdom, and a united Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in Turin.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 8 years earlier
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — same year
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 6 years later
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 8 years later
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 16 years later
Middle East
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 22 years earlier
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 22 years earlier
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 15 years later
Africa
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 14 years earlier
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 8 years later
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 18 years later
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 24 years later
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 24 years later
Asia
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 8 years earlier
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 7 years later
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 15 years later
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 22 years later
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 24 years later
Americas
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — same year
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — 2 years later
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — 3 years later
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 15 years later
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 18 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 10 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 52)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 52)
- Karl Marx (aged 43)
- Queen Victoria (aged 42)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 40)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 33)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 27)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 21)
- Thomas Edison (aged 14)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 8)