The First War of Italian Independence 1848

Question 1

When was the Statuto granted in Piedmont?

Answer 1

March 1848

Question 2

When did Austrian minister of foreign affairs, Klemens von Metternich, resign?

Answer 2

13th March 1848 after revolutions in Vienna

Question 3

When were the Five Glorious Days of Milan?

Answer 3

17-22 March 1848

Question 4

What happened during the Five Days of Milan?

Answer 4

• tobacco boycott
• 10,000 petition to Austria
• Austria forced to quadrilateral
• town council set up/union with Piedmont desired

Question 5

When did Charles Albert declare war on Austria?

Answer 5

22 March 1848

Question 6

Why did Charles Albert declare war on Austria?

Answer 6

Wanted to annex Lombardy to Piedmont

Fearful revolutionaries may extend to Piedmont and revolt against the monarchy

Question 7

Who commanded the Neapolitan troops which aided Charles Albert in the war against Austria?

Answer 7

General Pepe

Question 8

Who commanded the Roman troops which aided Charles Albert in the war against Austria?

Answer 8

General Durango

Question 9

Who was commanding the Austrian troops in the war against Charles Albert?

Answer 9

General Radetsky

Question 10

When did Pius IX issue his papal allocution?

Answer 10

29 April 1848

Question 11

What did the papal allocution state?

Answer 11

• war against Austria didn’t have papal blessing
• Charles Albert was the aggressor (wrongly)
• totally opposed a united Italy (hurt Gioberti)

Question 12

Which battle did Charles Albert’s troops win in May 1848?

Answer 12

Battle of Goita

Question 13

Why did the Roman troops return to the Papal States?

Answer 13

Because of the papal allocution

Question 14

Why did the Neapolitan troops return to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies?

Answer 14

Because Ferdinand II had retaken power

Question 15

When did Charles Albert lose the first Battle of Custoza?

Answer 15

24 July

Question 16

When was the Armistice of Salasco signed?

Answer 16

11 August, forcing Piedmontese out of Lombardy

Question 17

What happened on the 23 March 1849?

Answer 17

Charles Albert re-instigates the war against Austria but is defeated at the Battle of Novara

Question 18

What was the consequence of the loss at the Battle of Novara?

Answer 18

The abdication of Charles Albert with Victor Emmanuel II assuming the throne

Question 19

When was the Venetian Republic declared under Daniele Manin?

Answer 19

22 March 1848

Question 20

What happened in July 1848 concerning the Venetian Republic?

Answer 20

Parliament decides to aid Charles Albert and Daniele Manin resigns subsequently due to being a republican

Question 21

When did Daniele Manin reassume power following his resignation in July 1848?

Answer 21

March 1849 following Charles Albert’s loss at the Battle of Novara and his abdication

Question 22

Why did the Venetian Republic surrender eventually?

Answer 22

Due to cholera outbreak

Due to hunger (Austrian siege)

Question 23

When did Pope Pius IX appoint the anti-liberal prime minister Count Rossi

Answer 23

September 1848

Question 24

When was Count Rossi murdered by an angry mob exiting parliament?

Answer 24

15 November 1848

Question 25

What was the immediate consequence of the assassination of the prime minister Count Rossi on 15 November 1848?

Answer 25

The Pope flees from Rome and to Gaeta | A revolutionary government is established

Question 26

When the pope flees Rome following the assassination of his prime minister Count Rossi, who leads the revolutionary government?

Answer 26

Giuseppe Galletti

Question 27

What did the revolutionary government in Rome do?

Answer 27

Tax reform Public works Constituente (parliament) established

Question 28

When is the Roman Republic declared?

Answer 28

February 1849

Question 29

When are the Triumvirate put in place in Rome?

Answer 29

March 1849

Question 30

Who were the members of the Triumvirate?

Answer 30

Mazzini, Armellini, Saffi

Question 31

When did Napoleon III send 20,000 troops to Rome to restore papal rule?

Answer 31

April 1849

Question 32

Who held the French troops back for 2 months as they tried to claim Rome from the revolutionaries?

Answer 32

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Question 33

When did the French enter Rome?

Answer 33

3 July 1849

Question 34

Why did the uprisings begin in Sicily?

Answer 34

An outbreak of cholera | Poor living conditions in Palermo (capital)

Question 35

What happens in Sicily in March 1848?

Answer 35

A revolutionary government declares it is no longer a part of Naples or under the reign of Ferdinand II

Question 36

When does the Neapolitan army take control of the Sicilian resistance?

Answer 36

May 1849

Question 37

Why does Ferdinand II grant a constitution to the Neapolitan people?

Answer 37

Uprisings in Salerno and Naples

Question 38

What hinders the Austrians taking action in Naples?

Answer 38

Pope Pius IX had forbidden Austrian troops to enter the Papal States. The allocution overturned this and the Austrians were able to restore Ferdinand II to the throne