Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1861 – 1946

Kingdom of Italy

A state of 1861 – 1946 — 85 years in Europe. It replaced Kingdom of Sardinia, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and Republic of German-Austria and 3 more and followed Austrian Empire, Papal States and Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. It was replaced by Italy. The atlas records 214 things within it — wars and battles 36 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 15 · natural disasters 3 · treaties 6 · people 152 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 34 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
85 years
1861 – 1946
Rulers
34
the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy
Most ground
454,800 km²
in 1943
Within it
214
recorded rows
Symbols
3
on record, with years
Map: Kingdom of Italy in 1943, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Kingdom of Italy in 1943, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 454,800 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.
Kingdom of Italy in 1862, first mapped

1862 · first mapped · 235,100 km²

Kingdom of Italy in 1943, at its largest

1943 · at its largest · 454,800 km²

The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Austrian Empire: 1804 – 1867Kingdom of Sardinia: 1324 – 1861Papal States: 754 – 1870Italy: 1946 – 2026Kingdom of Italy: 1861 – 1946

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

After it

  • Italy · replaced by · 1946 – present

Rulers

The line of Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy.

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour · 1861 – 1861 · died in office of natural causesBettino Ricasoli · 1861 – 1862 · left office aliveVictor Emmanuel II · 1861 – 1878 · died in office of natural causesUrbano Rattazzi · 1862 – 1862 · left office aliveLuigi Carlo Farini · 1862 – 1863 · left office aliveMarco Minghetti · 1863 – 1864 · left office aliveAlfonso Ferrero La Marmora · 1864 – 1866 · left office aliveBettino Ricasoli · 1866 – 1867 · left office aliveUrbano Rattazzi · 1867 – 1867 · left office aliveLuigi Federico Menabrea · 1867 – 1869 · left office aliveGiovanni Lanza · 1869 – 1873 · left office aliveMarco Minghetti · 1873 – 1876 · left office aliveAgostino Depretis · 1876 – 1879 · left office aliveUmberto I of Italy · 1878 – 1900 · killedBenedetto Cairoli · 1879 – 1881 · left office aliveAgostino Depretis · 1881 – 1887 · died in office, manner not recordedFrancesco Crispi · 1887 – 1891 · left office aliveAntonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì · 1891 – 1892 · left office aliveGiovanni Giolitti · 1892 – 1893 · resigned or stood down, the article saysFrancesco Crispi · 1893 – 1896 · resigned or stood down, the article saysAntonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì · 1896 – 1898 · left office aliveLuigi Pelloux · 1898 – 1900 · left office aliveGiuseppe Saracco · 1900 – 1901 · left office aliveVictor Emmanuel III · 1900 – 1946 · exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysGiuseppe Zanardelli · 1901 – 1903 · died in office, manner not recordedGiovanni Giolitti · 1903 – 1905 · resigned or stood down, the article saysTommaso Tittoni · 1905 – 1905 · left office aliveAlessandro Fortis · 1905 – 1906 · left office aliveSidney Sonnino · 1906 – 1906 · left office aliveGiovanni Giolitti · 1906 – 1909 · left office aliveSidney Sonnino · 1909 – 1910 · left office aliveLuigi Luzzatti · 1910 – 1911 · left office aliveGiovanni Giolitti · 1911 – 1914 · left office aliveAntonio Salandra · 1914 – 1916 · left office alivePaolo Boselli · 1916 – 1917 · left office aliveVittorio Emanuele Orlando · 1917 – 1919 · left office aliveFrancesco Saverio Nitti · 1919 – 1920 · resigned or stood down, the article saysGiovanni Giolitti · 1920 – 1921 · left office aliveIvanoe Bonomi · 1921 – 1922 · left office aliveLuigi Facta · 1922 – 1922 · left office aliveBenito Mussolini · 1922 – 1943 · left office alivePietro Badoglio · 1943 – 1944 · left office aliveIvanoe Bonomi · 1944 – 1945 · left office aliveFerruccio Parri · 1945 – 1945 · left office aliveAlcide De Gasperi · 1945 – 1946 · left office aliveUmberto II of Italy · 1946 – 1946 · left office alive1880190019201940
killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour1861 – 1861under a yeardied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Bettino Ricasoli1861 – 18621 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Victor Emmanuel II1861 – 187817 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Urbano Rattazzi1862 – 1862under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Luigi Carlo Farini1862 – 18631 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Marco Minghetti1863 – 18641 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora1864 – 18662 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Bettino Ricasoli1866 – 18671 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Urbano Rattazzi1867 – 1867under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Luigi Federico Menabrea1867 – 18692 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Giovanni Lanza1869 – 18734 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Marco Minghetti1873 – 18763 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Agostino Depretis1876 – 18793 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Umberto I of Italy1878 – 190022 yearskilledWikidata's manner of death
Benedetto Cairoli1879 – 18812 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Agostino Depretis1881 – 18876 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Francesco Crispi1887 – 18914 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì1891 – 18921 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Giovanni Giolitti1892 – 18931 yearresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Francesco Crispi1893 – 18963 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì1896 – 18982 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Luigi Pelloux1898 – 19002 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Giuseppe Saracco1900 – 19011 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Victor Emmanuel III1900 – 194646 yearsexiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Giuseppe Zanardelli1901 – 19032 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Giovanni Giolitti1903 – 19052 yearsresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Tommaso Tittoni1905 – 1905under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Alessandro Fortis1905 – 19061 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Sidney Sonnino1906 – 1906under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Giovanni Giolitti1906 – 19093 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Sidney Sonnino1909 – 19101 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Luigi Luzzatti1910 – 19111 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Giovanni Giolitti1911 – 19143 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Antonio Salandra1914 – 19162 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Paolo Boselli1916 – 19171 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando1917 – 19192 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Francesco Saverio Nitti1919 – 19201 yearresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Giovanni Giolitti1920 – 19211 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ivanoe Bonomi1921 – 19221 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Luigi Facta1922 – 1922under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Benito Mussolini1922 – 194321 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Pietro Badoglio1943 – 19441 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ivanoe Bonomi1944 – 19451 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ferruccio Parri1945 – 1945under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Alcide De Gasperi1945 – 19461 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Umberto II of Italy1946 – 1946under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone

34 rulers, 34 with terms dated as terms, covering 1861 – 1946. Median reign 1 years. 6 of 45 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.91, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

1880190019201940

274,400 km² in 1871, 300 km² in 1946; at its largest 373,600 km² in 1941. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Flag of Italy (1861-1946) crowned
    flag, undatedFlag of Italy (1861-1946) crowned · Public domain
  • Flag of Italy (1861–1946)
    flag, undatedFlag of Italy (1861–1946) · Public domain
  • Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy (1890)
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy (1890) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan , Katepanomegas , ZuppaDiCarlo This file was derived from: Great coat of arms of…

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1800 – 1899: 108 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 3 risings, regime changes and massacres, 104 other18001900 – 1999: 106 recorded — 35 wars and battles, 13 risings, regime changes and massacres, 58 other1900

1800 – 1899108 rows · 1 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 100 more in the atlas.

1900 – 1999106 rows · 35 wars and battles · 13 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 98 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood85 years

    stood longer than 44% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held454,800 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 73% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century2.0

    had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median1 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 2% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record34

    has more rulers on record than 96% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 44 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Papal States · Linked · 754 – 1870Papal StatesKingdom of Sardinia · Linked · 1324 – 1861Kingdom of SardiniaImperial Free City of Trieste · Linked · 1382 – 1919Imperial Free City of TriesteKingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861) · Linked · 1720 – 1861Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)Kingdom of the Two Sicilies · Linked · 1738 – 1861Kingdom of the Two SiciliesAustrian Empire · Linked · 1804 – 1867Austrian EmpireKingdom of Italy · 1861 – 1946Kingdom of ItalyItaly · Linked · 1946 – 2026Italy100015002000
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Demographic-structural breakdown

    Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • overlapping reigns — rival claimants — within 20 y, or 3 or more changes of ruler within 20 y, or 2 or more reigns of two years or less within 20 y, or a monarch deposed or killed within 20 y — handovers 5; shortReigns 4
    • a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warEnded

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q172579 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.