[DOC] [TLE] Italian unification - Wikipedia [PAR] Italian unification (Italian: Unificazione italiana), or the Risorgimento was the 
political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian 
peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century. The 
process began in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna and was completed ... 
Following conquest by the Frankish Empire, the title of King of Italy merged... [DOC] [TLE] Victor Emmanuel II of Italy - Wikipedia [PAR] Victor Emmanuel II was King of Sardinia from 1849 until 17 March 1861, when he 
assumed the ... He became King of Sardinia-Piedmont in 1849 when his father 
abdicated the .... Sardinia-Piedmont had taken over the Italian Peninsula, rather 
than unifying it. ... Commemorative medal of the 1859 Italian Campaign (France)
... [DOC] [TLE] Kingdom of Sardinia - Wikipedia [PAR] The Kingdom of Sardinia was a state in Southern Europe which existed from the 
early 14th until the mid-19th century. It was the predecessor state of today's Italy. 
When it was acquired by the Duke of Savoy in 1720, it was a small state with 
weak institutions. However, the Savoyards united it with their possessions on the 
Italian ... There followed the annexation of Lombardy (1859), the central Italian 
states... [DOC] [TLE] Italian unification Cavour Garibaldi unification Italy essay [PAR] By the mid eighteenth century the north of the Italian peninsula featured a 
number of such ... He also began to move away from the philosophy of the 
Carbonari and .... Futher revolution in 1848 saw the Orleanist King abdicate, the 
French kingdom being .... Napoleon III drew back from his pact with Piedmont-
Sardinia and an... [DOC] [TLE] Italian Unification - Arcaini Home Page [PAR] Mar 6, 2005 ... During the 18th century, intellectual changes began to dismantle ... King Charles 
Albert of Sardinia mobilized his army and marched to ... Following elections 
during 1859 and 1860, all northern states (of the Italian peninsula),... [DOC] [TLE] SparkNotes: Europe (1848-1871): Italian Unification (1848-1870) [PAR] A summary of Italian Unification (1848-1870) in 's Europe (1848-1871). ... and 
Romagna voted in favor of unification with Sardinia in the summer of 1859. ... In 
1861, Italy was declared a united nation-state under the Sardinian king Victor 
Immanuel II. ... If Garibaldi had started his crusade earlier and had time to 
conquer the... [DOC] [TLE] Piedmont-Sardinia* - Countries - Office of the Historian [PAR] After Napoleon's rise to power, the Italian peninsula was once again conquered 
... When the Kingdom of Italy was founded in 1861, the King of Piedmont-Sardinia
, Victor ... of Piedmont-Sardinia was Hezekiah Gold Rogers, who presented his ... 
war in 1859, thus launching the conflict that served to unify the northern Italian... [DOC] [TLE] Italian unification - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Apr 25, 2014 ... By 1830, revolutionary sentiment in favor of a unified Italy began to ... 1831, the 
Austrian army began its march across the Italian peninsula, ... Soon, Charles 
Albert, the King of Sardinia (whose kingdom was ... In November 1848, following 
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Naples and the southern part of the Italian peninsula were restored. ... The stage 
for unification, the work of Cavour, was set in the state of Piedmont-Sardinia, 
which lay ... King Charles Albert issued a statuto, or constitution, converting his 
state to a... [DOC] [TLE] Italian Unification [PAR] Italian Unification or Italian Risorgimento, series of political and military events 
that ... domination of the peninsula, although the Kingdom of Sardinia recovered 
Piedmont ... He immediately began an extensive program of reforms. ... After 
some hesitation, King Charles Albert of Sardinia mobilized his army and marched 
to the... [DOC] [TLE] The Unification of Italy - Italian American Society of Tulsa [PAR] Groups in several Italian states began to push the idea of a unified

Question: In 1859 this King of Sardinia began his unification of the Italian peninsula
Answer: Victor Emmanuel II