Europe 1849: Fall of the Last Roman Republic
3 July 1849
3 Jul 1849
The Springtime of Peoples
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Fall of the Last Roman Republic
24 Feb 1848 Year of Revolution Begins
21 Mar 1848 March Revolutions
11 Apr 1848 First Italian War of Independence
3 May 1848 German Question
23 Jun 1848 June Days
24 Jul 1848 First Battle of Custoza
26 Aug 1848 Truce of Malmö
29 Oct 1848 Vienna Uprising
19 Dec 1848 Rise of Napoleon III
23 Mar 1849 Battle of Novara
14 Apr 1849 Hungarian War of Independence
9 May 1849 May Uprisings
26 May 1849 Alliance of the Three Kings
3 Jul 1849 Fall of the Last Roman Republic
28 Aug 1849 Restoring the Old Order
29 Apr 1850 Erfurt Union
29 Nov 1850 Humiliation of Olmütz
The formation of the new Roman Republic and expulsion of the Pope had been an affront to the Catholic powers of Europe. While Austria invaded the new Republic from the north, the French, despite their own recent republican revolution, landed troops in the south and laid siege to Rome. Eventually the Roman defenses gave way and their leader, the already famous revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, was forced to flee through the enemy lines to San Marino and then abroad with his small army of Italian patriots.
