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1821
 
   
English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five      
Protestant cemetery in Rome, engraving after Walter Severn
Mary Evans Picture Library

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1842
 
    
English author Thomas Babington Macaulay publishes a collection of stirring ballads, Lays of Ancient Rome       
Thomas Macaulay, by John Partridge, c.1853
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1848
 
    
The prime minister of the papal states, Pellegrino Rossi, is assassinated in Rome       
1848
 
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An uprising in Rome causes Pope Pius IX to flee for safety to a coastal fortress at Gaeta      
1849
 
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Pope Pius IX returns to Rome under the protection of French troops, with his enthusiasm for any form of change much reduced.      
1853
 
    
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore is a success at its premiere in Rome       
1861
 
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Victor Emmanuel II is proclaimed king of a united Italy, with only Rome and Venetia remaining outside his realm      
1870
 
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As the result of a plebiscite, Rome and the remaining papal states are included in the kingdom of Italy       
1871
 
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Rome becomes the capital city of the entire Italian peninsula, for the first time since the Roman empire     
1900
 
    
Giacomo Puccini's Tosca brings in the new century with a January premiere in Rome