Victor Emmanuel II … King of Italy & Sardinia 1820–1878

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Victor Emmanuel II … King of Italy & Sardinia, 1820–1878 (aged 57 years)

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Victor Emmanuel II … King of Italy & Sardinia

Name: Victor Emmanuel II // King of Italy & Sardinia
Given names: Victor Emmanuel II
Name suffix: King of Italy & Sardinia

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father	Links Birth: 1798 Death: 1849 Unique identifier: 47A15AB33671064B848C833B4E411D93FA19 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Victor Emmanuel II … King of Italy & Sardinia Charles Albert … King of Sardinia 1798–1849 Birth: 1798 Death: 1849
himself	Links Birth: 14 March 1820 22 — Turin, Piedmont, Italy Death: 9 January 1878 — Rome, Lazio, Italy Unique identifier: D38BB969CC927147A5884665C22CDE4D8799 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Clothilde … Humbert I … King of Italy Victor Emmanuel II … King of Italy & Sardinia 1820–1878 Birth: 14 March 1820 22 — Turin, Piedmont, Italy Death: 9 January 1878 — Rome, Lazio, Italy

Victor Emmanuel II … King of Italy & Sardinia + … …
himself	Links Birth: 14 March 1820 22 — Turin, Piedmont, Italy Death: 9 January 1878 — Rome, Lazio, Italy Unique identifier: D38BB969CC927147A5884665C22CDE4D8799 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Clothilde … Humbert I … King of Italy Victor Emmanuel II … King of Italy & Sardinia 1820–1878 Birth: 14 March 1820 22 — Turin, Piedmont, Italy Death: 9 January 1878 — Rome, Lazio, Italy
daughter	Links Birth: 1843 22 Death: 1911 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte Clothilde … 1843–1911 Birth: 1843 22 Death: 1911
2 years son	Links Birth: 1844 23 — Turin, Piedmont, Italy Death: 1900 — Monza, Monza and Brianza, Lombardy, Italy Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Victor Emmanuel III … Humbert I … King of Italy 1844–1900 Birth: 1844 23 — Turin, Piedmont, Italy Death: 1900 — Monza, Monza and Brianza, Lombardy, Italy

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Birth	14 March 1820 22 Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Birth of a daughter	Clothilde … 1843
Birth of a son	Humbert I … King of Italy 1844 Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Death of a father	Charles Albert … King of Sardinia 1849
Death	9 January 1878 (aged 57 years) Rome, Lazio, Italy
Unique identifier	9D132FA1CB67144EBD21682194F2894CD68B
Last change	26 November 2022 – 11:29:17 Author of last change: Danny

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Note	Victor Emmanuel II (1820-78), king of Sardinia (1849-61) and king of Italy (1861-78), born on March 14, 1820, in Turin. He was the son of Charles Albert (1798-1849), king of Sardinia (1831-49), who abdicated in his favor after being defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Novara in 1849. Assisted by Italian statesman Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour, his premier, Victor Emmanuel developed parliamentary government, reorganized the army, regulated finances, stimulated commerce and industry, and secularized ecclesiastical property. He assisted (1855-56) Great Britain and France in the Crimean War. Victor Emmanuel Strongly supported the movement toWard national unity that was growing in Italy at this time. With French aid he repulsed the Austrians when they invaded Piedmont in 1859 and added Lombardy to his realm. The central Italian states accepted him as their king, and after the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi captured the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from the French in 1860-61, Victor Emmanuel was master of the entire peninsula, with the exception of Venetia, still held by the Austrians, and the Papal States. He was proclaimed king of Italy in 1861. In the same year he ceded Nice and Savoy to France in payment for past and promised French aid. Venetia was won as a result of Italian intervention on the Prussian side in the Seven Weeks' War between Austria and Prussia in 1866. In 1870 Rome was annexed and made the capital of Italy. Victor Emmanuel then devoted himself to the peaceful development of Italy. He died in Rome on January 9, 1878.

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Victor Emmanuel II (1820-78), king of Sardinia (1849-61) and king of Italy
(1861-78), born on March 14, 1820, in Turin. He was the son of Charles
Albert (1798-1849), king of Sardinia (1831-49), who abdicated in his favor
after being defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Novara in 1849.
Assisted by Italian statesman Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour, his premier,
Victor Emmanuel developed parliamentary government, reorganized the army,
regulated finances, stimulated commerce and industry, and secularized
ecclesiastical property. He assisted (1855-56) Great Britain and France in
the Crimean War.

Victor Emmanuel Strongly supported the movement toWard national unity that
was growing in Italy at this time. With French aid he repulsed the
Austrians when they invaded Piedmont in 1859 and added Lombardy to his
realm. The central Italian states accepted him as their king, and after
the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi captured the Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies from the French in 1860-61, Victor Emmanuel was master of the
entire peninsula, with the exception of Venetia, still held by the
Austrians, and the Papal States. He was proclaimed king of Italy in 1861.
In the same year he ceded Nice and Savoy to France in payment for past and
promised French aid. Venetia was won as a result of Italian intervention
on the Prussian side in the Seven Weeks' War between Austria and Prussia
in 1866. In 1870 Rome was annexed and made the capital of Italy. Victor
Emmanuel then devoted himself to the peaceful development of Italy. He
died in Rome on January 9, 1878.