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
1862 · first mapped · 235,100 km²
1943 · at its largest · 454,800 km²
Where it sits in time
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
- Austrian Empire · follows · 1804 – 1867
- Kingdom of Sardinia · replaces · 1324 – 1861
- Papal States · follows · 754 – 1870
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies · replaces · 1738 – 1861
- Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861) · replaces · 1720 – 1861
- Republic of German-Austria · replaces · 1918 – 1919
- Free State of Fiume · replaces · 1920 – 1924
- Imperial Free City of Trieste · replaces
- Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia · follows · 1815 – 1866
After it
- Italy · replaced by · 1946 – present
Rulers
The line of Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour | 1861 – 1861 | under a year | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Bettino Ricasoli | 1861 – 1862 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Victor Emmanuel II | 1861 – 1878 | 17 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Urbano Rattazzi | 1862 – 1862 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Luigi Carlo Farini | 1862 – 1863 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Marco Minghetti | 1863 – 1864 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora | 1864 – 1866 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Bettino Ricasoli | 1866 – 1867 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Urbano Rattazzi | 1867 – 1867 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Luigi Federico Menabrea | 1867 – 1869 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Giovanni Lanza | 1869 – 1873 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Marco Minghetti | 1873 – 1876 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Agostino Depretis | 1876 – 1879 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Umberto I of Italy | 1878 – 1900 | 22 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Benedetto Cairoli | 1879 – 1881 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Agostino Depretis | 1881 – 1887 | 6 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Francesco Crispi | 1887 – 1891 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì | 1891 – 1892 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Giovanni Giolitti | 1892 – 1893 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Francesco Crispi | 1893 – 1896 | 3 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì | 1896 – 1898 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Luigi Pelloux | 1898 – 1900 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Giuseppe Saracco | 1900 – 1901 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Victor Emmanuel III | 1900 – 1946 | 46 years | exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Giuseppe Zanardelli | 1901 – 1903 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Giovanni Giolitti | 1903 – 1905 | 2 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Tommaso Tittoni | 1905 – 1905 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Alessandro Fortis | 1905 – 1906 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Sidney Sonnino | 1906 – 1906 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Giovanni Giolitti | 1906 – 1909 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Sidney Sonnino | 1909 – 1910 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Luigi Luzzatti | 1910 – 1911 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Giovanni Giolitti | 1911 – 1914 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Antonio Salandra | 1914 – 1916 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Paolo Boselli | 1916 – 1917 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Vittorio Emanuele Orlando | 1917 – 1919 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Francesco Saverio Nitti | 1919 – 1920 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Giovanni Giolitti | 1920 – 1921 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ivanoe Bonomi | 1921 – 1922 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Luigi Facta | 1922 – 1922 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Benito Mussolini | 1922 – 1943 | 21 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Pietro Badoglio | 1943 – 1944 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ivanoe Bonomi | 1944 – 1945 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ferruccio Parri | 1945 – 1945 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Alcide De Gasperi | 1945 – 1946 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Umberto II of Italy | 1946 – 1946 | under a year | left 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.
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.
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flag, undatedFlag of Italy (1861-1946) crowned · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Italy_(1861%E2%80%931946).svg.png)
flag, undatedFlag of Italy (1861–1946) · Public domain .svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_Kingdom_of_Italy_(1890).svg.png)
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 – 1899108 rows · 1 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Benito Mussolini · ruler · 1883 – 1945
- Luigi Pirandello · writer · 1867 – 1936
- Guglielmo Marconi · inventor · 1874 – 1937
- Antonio Gramsci · philosopher · 1891 – 1937
- Grazia Deledda · writer · 1871 – 1936
- Gabriele D'Annunzio · politician · 1863 – 1938
- Maria Montessori · scientist · 1870 – 1952
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour · ruler · 1810 – 1861
and 100 more in the atlas.
1900 – 1999106 rows · 35 wars and battles · 13 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Enrico Fermi · inventor · 1901 – 1954
- Silvio Berlusconi · politician · 1936 – 2023
- Federico Fellini · writer · 1920 – 1993
- Umberto Eco · philosopher · 1932 – 2016
- Technetium · discovery · 1937
- Dario Fo · artist · 1926 – 2016
- Rita Levi-Montalcini · scientist · 1909 – 2012
- Romano Prodi · politician · 1939 – present
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.
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
- On the timeline, 1851 – 1956, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1943, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
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.