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Napoleon Bonaparte and his French Army of Italy invade Italy. 17 November: Napoleon defeats József Alvinczi at the Battle of Arcole. [9] 1797: 7 January: The Italian tricolour is adopted for the first time as official flag, by the government of the Cispadane Republic. 12 May: Fall of the Republic of Venice.
The Roman expansion in Italy covers a series of conflicts in which Rome grew from being a small Italian city-state to be the ruler of the Italian region.Roman tradition attributes to the Roman kings the first war against the Sabines and the first conquests around the Alban Hills and down to the coast of Latium.
Rome timeline; Roman Kingdom and Republic 753 BC According to legend, Romulus founds Rome. 753–509 BC: Rule of the seven Kings of Rome. 509 BC: Creation of the Republic. 390 BC The Gauls invade Rome. Rome sacked. 264–146 BC Punic Wars. 146–44 BC Social and Civil Wars. Emergence of Marius, Sulla, Pompey and Caesar. 44 BC
The Risorgimento movement emerged to unite Italy in the 19th century. Piedmont-Sardinia took the lead in a series of wars to liberate Italy from foreign control. Following three Wars of Italian Independence against the Habsburg Austrians in the north, the Expedition of the Thousand against the Spanish Bourbons in the south, and the Capture of Rome, the unification of the country was completed ...
The new city, however, did not receive an urban prefect until 359 which raised it to the status of eastern capital. After the death of Theodosius in 395 and the subsequent division of the Empire, Italy was home base of the Western Roman Empire. As a result of Alaric's invasion in 402 the western seat was moved from Mediolanum to Ravenna.
Alaric then invaded and took control of parts of Noricum and upper Pannonia in the spring of 408. He demanded 288,000 solidi (four thousand pounds of gold), and threatened to invade Italy if he did not get it. [44] This was equivalent to the amount of money earned in property revenue by a single senatorial family in one year. [49]
Italy took the initiative in entering the war in spring 1915, despite strong popular and elite sentiment in favor of neutrality. Italy was a large, poor country whose political system was chaotic, its finances were heavily strained, and its army was very poorly prepared. [167] The Triple Alliance meant little either to Italians or Austrians.
Italy remained the main theatre of war for much of the Second Punic War, but the Romans also aimed to destroy the Barcid Empire in Iberia and prevent major Punic allies from linking up with forces in Italy. Over the years, Rome had expanded along the southern Iberian coast until in 211 BC it captured the city of Saguntum.