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Born in Turin in 1798, to the son of the Prince of Carignano, Carlo Emanuele, and Albertina Maria Cristina of Saxony. He was educated in the intellectually liberal but Francophil atmosphere of Geneva, then Paris during the First French Empire. At the fall of Napoleon he returned to Turin. He married Maria Teresa of Tuscany in 1817 and displayed some sympathies with liberals. In 1821, as regent for the kingdom in the absence of the new king, Carlo Felice, he conceded a constitution that was disavowed by the king, who sent him to join the French ultra-monarchist forces in Spain to suppress the liberal revolution there and restore Ferdinand VII. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Trocadero in 1823, which annihilated hopes of a constitutional monarchy for Spain.

Carlo Alberto succeeded Carlo Felice to the throne of Sardinia in 1831. Although an Italian patriot opposed to Austrian hegemony in Northern Italy, he put down the MazziniGiuseppe Mazzini ( June 22, 1805 March 10, 1872) was an Italian writer and politician whose efforts helped bring about the modern Italian state, rather than the medley of separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed in the nineteenth ce conspiracy. He introduced a series of reforms that abolished domestic customs barriers within the kingdom, promulgated a law code (the Albertine Code) along Napoleonic lines and supported the arts and sciences.

In the year of revolutions of 1848Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy, and those who had anything united in common terror. Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections The European Revolutions of 1848 in some countries known as the Spring of Nations were the bloody he agreed to a constitutional regime that remained in place for the century that the Kingdom of ItalyThere have been several entities known as the Kingdom of Italy . The various Barbarian rulers of Italy after the end of the Western Empire in 476 (including Odoacer, the Ostrogoths and the Lombards) sometimes called their state the Kingdom of Italy. With lasted. The same year he declared war on absolutist Austria. However, he was defeated at Novara in 1849 and, rather than redraw the Statute, abdicated in favour of his son, Vittorio Emanuele.

He then left for exile in Oporto, Portugal, where he died the same year.

For all hereditary titles, check Vittorio Amedeo IIIVictor Amadeus III Vittorio Amedeo III in Italian b. June 26 1726 d. October 16 1796) was the Duke of Savoy from 1773 to 1796 (see below for all titles. Titles of the Crown at the time of Vittorio Amedeo III: VITTORIO AMEDEO III, per la grazia di Dio Re d.

With Maria Teresa of TuscanyTuscany ( Italian Toscana is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. It is often regarded as among the most beautiful parts of Italy. he had children including:

1. Vittorio Emanuele IIVictor Emmanuel II (in Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II ( March 14 1820 January 9 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia 1849 1861, and King of Italy 1861 1878. In 1842 he was married to a cousin, Maria Adelaide of Habsburg and had children inclu
2. Ferdinand Marie Albert ( 1822Events March 30 Florida becomes a United States territory. May 24 Battle of Pichincha: Simon Bolivar secures the independence of Quito. June 14 Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the- 1855Events Births January 5 King Camp Gillette, inventor († 1932) January 21 John Moses Browning, inventor († 1926) January 28 William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator († 1898) March 13 Percival Lowell, astronomer († 19), Duke of Genoa who had 2 children:

1. Margaret of Savoy ( 1851- 1926), married Umberto I
2. Tomasso ( 1854- 1931), Duke of Genoa, who had children including:

1. Philiberto, Duke of Pistoia
2. Adalberto, Duke of Bergamo