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| 1442 |
| | | Naples is captured by Alfonso V, breaking the link with France and uniting Sicily and Naples as an Aragonese kingdom | |
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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Sicily in January starts off Europe's 'year of revolutions' | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Garibaldi lands at Marsala in Sicily in May with his thousand Redshirts, and wins control of the island for the king in waiting, Victor Emmanuel II | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Garibaldi crosses from Sicily to the mainland and by September is in Naples | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Europe's worst earthquake, centred on the Strait of Messina, kills up to 200,000 people in Sicily and southern Italy. | |
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| 1943 July 10 |
| | | British and American troops land in Sicily to begin the Italian campaign | |
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| 1943 August 3 |
| | | Italians signs a secret armistice with the Allies, as Allied troops land in Sicily | |
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| 1943 August 16 |
| | | All German and Italian troops are by now driven out of Sicily or captured by the Allies | |
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