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Events on Saturday 24 March 1860 1
1860Treaty of Turin Cedes Nice and Savoy to FranceSardinia rewards French support for Italian unificationBy 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.