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Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

1820 - 1878

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Victor Emmanuel II (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; full name: Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di Savoia; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was King of Sardinia (also informally known as Piedmont–Sardinia) from 23 March 1849 until 17 March 1861, when he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of an independent, united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878. Borrowing from the old Latin title Pater Patriae of the Roman emperors, the Italians gave him the epithet of "Father of the Fatherland" (Italian: Padre della Patria). Born in Turin as the eldest son of Charles Albert, Prince of Carignano, and Maria Theresa of Austria, Victor Emmanuel fought in the First Italian War of Independence (1848–1849) before being made King of Sardinia following his father's abdication. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy has received more than 2,053,031 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Victor Emmanuel II of Italy is the 271st most popular politician (up from 297th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Italy (up from 117th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Italian Politician.

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy was most famous for being the first king of Italy. He was the son of King Charles Albert of Sardinia and Maria Theresa of Austria. He became King of Sardinia in 1849 and King of Italy in 1861.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy ranks 271 out of 19,576. Before him are Konrad Adenauer, Philip IV of Spain, Georges Danton, Georgy Zhukov, Philippe Pétain, and Wu Zetian. After him are Numa Pompilius, Elagabalus, Brutus the Younger, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, and Leopold III of Belgium.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy ranks 4. Before him are Friedrich Engels, Florence Nightingale, and Herbert Spencer. After him are Anne Brontë, Nadar, Henri, Count of Chambord, Jenny Lind, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Multatuli, Harriet Tubman, and Susan B. Anthony. Among people deceased in 1878, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy ranks 2. Before him is Pope Pius IX. After him are Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Claude Bernard, Joseph Henry, Julius von Mayer, Charles-François Daubigny, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, George V of Hanover, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, and Mirza Fatali Akhundov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy ranks 114 out of 5,161. Before him are Amedeo Avogadro (1776), Pope Paul III (1468), Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Juan Carlos I of Spain (1938), and Pope Innocent III (1160). After him are Numa Pompilius (-753), Brutus the Younger (-85), Sulla (-138), Pope Urban VIII (1568), Agatha of Sicily (235), and Pope Pius II (1405).

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Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy ranks 23. Before him are Mark Antony (-83), Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (-600), Sonia Gandhi (1946), Domitian (51), Marcus Licinius Crassus (-115), and Antoninus Pius (86). After him are Numa Pompilius (-753), Brutus the Younger (-85), Sulla (-138), Cardinal Mazarin (1602), Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1869), and Galba (-3).

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