The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was formed by the merger of the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily after the fall of Napoleon, and was ruled by a branch of the Spanish Bourbons. It covered the southern part of the Italian peninsula and the island of Sicily, and its capital was Naples. The kingdom was often described by its critics as backward and repressive, and a revolt in 1848 was put down by force, although it also had the first railway in Italy and a significant navy. In 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi and his volunteers landed in Sicily, and the kingdom collapsed, with its territory annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia, which became the Kingdom of Italy.
Before and after
- 25 January 1736Birth of Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- 14 June 1736Birth of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
- 29 January 1737Birth of Thomas Paine
- 8 May 1737Birth of Edward Gibbon
- from 1738 to 1861Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
- from 10 May 1738 to 1 January 1740Nadir Shah's invasion of India
- 24 May 1738Birth of George III of Great Britain
- 15 November 1738Birth of William Herschel
- 2 June 1739Construction of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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