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When was the Kingdom of Italy proclaimed under Victor Emmanuel II?
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The Kingdom of Italy was officially proclaimed on March 17, 1861, by a parliament assembled in Turin. This event marked the culmination of the Risorgimento, the 19th-century movement for Italian unification, and established Victor Emmanuel II as the first king of the new state.123