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When was the Kingdom of Italy officially proclaimed?
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unification of Italy
The unification of Italy. The dates are those of annexation, first to Sardinia-Piedmont and after 1861 to the Kingdom of Italy.
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 that sought to free the Italian states from foreign domination and unite them under a single government.12