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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Victor Emmanuel II of Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Victor Emmanuel II (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; March 14, 1820 – January 9, 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia from 1849–1861.
Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II, erected 1895-1911 (Rome, Italy)
Charles Albert abdicated and Victor Emmanuel became king of Sardinia–Piedmont on March 24, 1849.
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 19th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
King Victor Emmanuel II succeeded in uniting the Italian states of the peninsula into one nation.
The Trentino and South Tyrol would be annexed in the following century, after 1918, thereby ending the unification process as planned by the House of Savoy under Victor Emmanuel II.
The 19th century saw the birth of science as a profession; the term scientist was coined in 1833 by William Whewell.
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 Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Italy of modern times became a nation-state belatedly — on March 17, 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula and the Two Sicilies were united under king Victor Emmanuel II of the Savoy dynasty, hitherto king of Sardinia, a realm that included Piedmont.
The architect of Italian unification was Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the Chief Minister of Victor Emmanuel.
On June 2, 1946, a referendum on the monarchy resulted in the establishment of the Italian republic, which led to the adoption of a new constitution on January 1, 1948.
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