Timeline March 1860

Events in March 1860 2

• 1860 First Taranaki War Begins Fighting erupts over land sales in New Zealand War broke out in the Taranaki region of New Zealand on 17 March 1860 after colonial authorities tried to force through a disputed land purchase opposed by Maori owners. British troops and colonial militia fought Maori forces in a conflict that lasted just over a year without a clear victor. The war intensified Maori resistance to land alienation and fed the wider New Zealand Wars.
• 1860 Treaty of Turin Cedes Nice and Savoy to France Sardinia rewards French support for Italian unification By the Treaty of Turin, signed 24 March 1860, the Kingdom of Sardinia ceded Savoy and the county of Nice to France in exchange for French military support during the Second Italian War of Independence. Plebiscites in the two territories that April confirmed the transfer by large majorities. The cession fixed France's modern southeastern border.