The European republican revolutionary movement of 1848…

January 1848 CE

The European republican revolutionary movement of 1848 begins in Italy on January 9 with a local revolution in Sicily, which breaks away from the Kingdom of Naples (the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies) and erects an independent government.

Starting as a popular insurrection, the revolution at first only takes the form of a nationalist rising against Austria led by the king of Sardinia under the Italian tricolor, the “white, red and green”.

It soon takes on overtones of Sicilian separatism and spreads throughout the island.

Piecemeal reforms prove inadequate to satisfy the revolutionaries, both noble and bourgeois, who are determined to have a new and more liberal constitution.

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Palermo > Panormus Sicilia Italy View →

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Charles Albert of Sardina View →

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Austrian Empire View → Sardinia, Kingdom of View → Sicilies, Kingdom of the Two View →

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Italian unification View → Italian Revolutions of 1840-1851 View → Italian War of Independence, First, or Italian Revolution of 1849-49 (Italian War of Independence of 1848-49) View → 1848, Revolutions of View →

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