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Formation of an Independent Italy
Present-day Italy became a sovereign state on March 17, 1861, during the Resurgence, a political movement that unified countries of the Italian Peninsula into a single nation of Italy. Italy's golden era did not last long, as France invaded the independent states in northern Italy, leading to their collapse. -
Papal States Taken Over by New Nation of Italy
The Pope had no interest in uniting Italy as the catholic church forbidden the bishop of Rome to rule as a secular monarch since the end of the western roman empire as the roman caesar dissapeared. Milan will be under Savoy this time as the austrians focuced more on Rome while south Italy remained the same. -
Failure of First Italo-Ethiopian War with the Battle of Adowa
A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. In response to Ethiopian appeals, the League of Nations condemned the Italian invasion in 1935 and voted to impose economic sanctions on the aggressor. -
Italy invades and takes over Libya
Italian invasion of Libya. The Invasion of Libya by Italy happened in 1911, when Italian troops invaded the Turkish province of Libya (then part of the Ottoman Empire) and started the Italo-Turkish War. As result, Italian Tripolitania and Italian Cyrenaica were established, later unified in the colony of Italian Libya.
