Revolutions in the Lombard city of Milan forced about 20,000 of Austrian General Radetsky's troops to withdraw from the city. These revolts in Sicily helped to spark revolts in the northern Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. Tax gatherers were sent out along with the 100,000 man army standing in place, and letting their presence be known.Ĭlashes between rebels and Austrians in Bologna. The Austrian Empire of this region had tightened their grip on the people by further oppressing them with harsher taxes. Italians in Lombardy-Venetia could not enjoy these freedoms. Notwithstanding the events in Rome and Naples, the states still were under a conservative rule. These revolts drove Ferdinand and his army out of Sicily, and forced him to allow a provisional government to be constituted.
King Ferdinand II tried to resist these changes, however a full-fledged revolt erupted in Sicily, a revolt also erupted in Salerno and Naples. It commenced on 12 January in Sicily, where the people began to demand a Provisional Government, separate from the government of the mainland. He signed a truce and withdrew his forces from Lombardy, and thus Austria remained dominant in a divided Italy until the Second Italian War of Independence.ĭaniele Manin and Niccolo Tommaseo are freed from prison, 18 March 1848Īfter witnessing the liberal friendly events that were occurring in Rome, the people of other states started to demand similar treatment. Lacking allies, Charles Albert was no match for the Austrian army and was defeated at the Battle of Custoza on 24 July 1848.
He declared war on Austria in March 1848 and launched a full-out attack on the Quadrilateral. King Charles Albert, who ruled Piedmont-Sardinia from 1831 to 1849, aspired to unite Italy with the endorsement of Pope Pius IX, head of the Papal States, which comprised a large territory in the center of the Italian peninsula. Some uprisings in the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, particularly in Milan, forced the Austrian General Radetzky to retreat to the Quadrilateral fortresses. The revolution was led by the state of the Kingdom of Sardinia. A desire to be independent from foreign rule, and the conservative leadership of the Austrians, led Italian revolutionaries to stage revolution in order to drive out the Austrians. During this time, Italy was not a unified country, and was divided into many states, which, in Northern Italy, were ruled directly or indirectly by the Austrian Empire. As Italian nationalists they sought to eliminate reactionary Austrian control.
The 1848 Revolutions in the Italian states, part of the wider Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, were organized revolts in the states of the Italian peninsula and Sicily, led by intellectuals and agitators who desired a liberal government. Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states
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