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| 1835 |
| | | Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor has its premiere in Naples | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The success of the opera Nabucco, premiered in Milan, is a turning point in the fortunes of Giuseppe Verdi | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Camillo Benso di Cavour founds a newspaper in north Italy and calls it Il Risorgimento ('The Resurgence') | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Napoleon's widow, the empress Marie Louise, now the duchess of Parma, dies in Parma | |
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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Sicily in January starts off Europe's 'year of revolutions' | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The prime minister of the papal states, Pellegrino Rossi, is assassinated in Rome | |
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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Rome causes Pope Pius IX to flee for safety to a coastal fortress at Gaeta | |
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| 1849 |
| | | A new Roman republic is proclaimed, with veteran agitator Giuseppe Mazzini in the leading role | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Giuseppe Garibaldi arrives from exile in South America to defend the new Roman republic against a French army | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Pope Pius IX returns to Rome under the protection of French troops, with his enthusiasm for any form of change much reduced. | |
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