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572 |
The Byzantine rule collapses after an attack by the Lombards |
756 |
Pepin the Short, a Frankish King conquers the Lombards for the popes |
756 |
The Papal States were established in central Italy |
774 |
The Lombards defeated by Charlemagne |
800 |
Charlemagne crowned Roman emperor |
962 |
Otto the Great, the king of Germany, was crowned emperor establishing the Holy Roman Empire |
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1000s - 1400's Independent city-states are established |
1519 |
Charles I of Spain became Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire |
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1700s Spanish rule passed to Austrian rule |
1789 |
The French Revolution |
1804 |
Napoleon declared himself the emperor of Italy |
1814 |
Napoleon abdicated his throne and Italy was broken up into small kingdoms |
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1820s-1850s Small revolutions in the kingdoms - Venice, Rome and Tuscany declare themselves Republics |
1849 |
Austria regains control of most of Italy |
1860 |
Northern Italy was joined to the Kingdom of Sardinia |
1861 |
The Kingdom of Italy was formed under the leadership of Giuseppe Garibaldi Victor Emmanuel II crowned king |
1911 |
Italy defeats the Ottoman Empire |
1914 |
1915 |
Italy joins the war on the side of the Allies |
1918 |
The Allies win World War I |
1922 |
28 October: The Fascists named Benito Mussolini the Prime Minister of Italy |
1925 |
Benito Mussolini becomes the dictator of Italy |
1936 |
Mussolini and Hitler sign an agreement known as the Roman-Berlin Axis |
1939 |
Italy conquers Albania and Mussolini sides with Hitler and Fascist Germany |
1943 |
8 September: Italy surrenders to the Allies in WW II |
1945 |
Mussolini was shot |
1946 |
10 June: Italy abolishes the monarchy and establishes a republic |
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