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Victor Emmanuel II (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; full name: Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di Savoia; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was King of Sardinia (also informally known as Piedmont–Sardinia) from 23 March 1849 until 17 March 1861, [a] when he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king ...
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Victor Emmanuel II (born March 14, 1820, Turin, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia—died January 9, 1878, Rome, Italy) was the king of Sardinia–Piedmont who became the first king of a united Italy.
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Victor Emmanuel II of Italy was a King of Sardinia-Piedmont who played a major role in Risorgimento, the Italian unification movement and became the first King of unified Italy since the 6th century. Check out this biography to know more about him.
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2018年6月11日 · Victor Emmanuel II (1820-1878) was king of Sardinia from 1849 to 1861 and then the first king of Italy until 1878. He worked to free Italy from foreign control and became a central figure of the movement for Italian unification.
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Victor Emmanuel II (Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was king of Sardinia from 1849 until 17 March 1861. On that date, he took the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century.
Victor Emmanuel II and the Risorgimento process | Vittoriano
Victor Emmanuel II (1820 – 1878) was the most beloved ruler of the House of Savoy, not least because of his human qualities. Having become king of Sardinia in 1849, he placed Piedmont, which was under his domain, at the helm of the Risorgimento project; he was crowned King of Italy in 1861, after the Italian Unification, and again in 1870 ...
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In 1861 Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed king of a united Italy. Venice and the Papal States were still outside his kingdom; these two, however, finally joined the Italian union—Venice in 1866 and the Papal States in 1871.
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Victor Emmanuel excelled in Palestro (one of the 1859 war battles), won the battle of Solferino, entered Milan as a liberator and went on to unify Italy's armed forces in spite of Napoleon's defection (he had signed an armistice with Austria in Villafranca by then).
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Biography: The first King of a united Italy since the 6th century. He was King of Sardinia from 1849 and ruled as King of Italy 1861-78. He is considered along with Camillo Cavour and Giuseppe Mazzini, one of founding fathers of the Kingdom of Italy.
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VICTOR EMMANUEL II (1820-1878) First king (1861-1878) of united Italy and last king of Piedmont-Sardinia (1849-1861). Victor Emmanuel succeeded his father Charles Albert to the throne of Piedmont-Sardinia on March 24, 1849, following the abdication of Charles Albert after two humiliating defeats (1848 and 1849) by Austria.