On This Day - What happened 17 March 1861 AD

The proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy was the formal act that sanctioned the birth of the unified Kingdom of Italy. It happened with a normative act of the Savoyard Kingdom of Sardinia — the law 17 March 1861, n. 4761 — with which Victor Emmanuel II assumed for himself and for his successors the title of King of Italy.

On 17 March 1861, the Parliament proclaimed Victor Emmanuel King of Italy