First monarch Victor Emmanuel II | ||
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Abolition 1946 (Italian constitutional referendum, 1946) | ||
The Monarchy of Italy (the Italian Monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1946.
History
The Monarch of Italy was created with the proclamation of King of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel II, as "King of Italy" during the Italian unification, on 17 March 1861 in Turin.
The states unified under the new Kingdom were:
References
Monarchy of Italy Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA