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Events on Friday 11 May 1860 1
1860Garibaldi's Expedition of the ThousandConquest of Sicily and Naples for Italian unificationGiuseppe Garibaldi landed at Marsala in Sicily on 11 May 1860 with about a thousand volunteers and rapidly overthrew Bourbon rule across Sicily and southern Italy. Plebiscites in October 1860 saw the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies vote to join the Kingdom of Sardinia under Victor Emmanuel II. The campaign was decisive in bringing about the unification of Italy.