historical geographic location Italy Kingdom of Italy 1861-03-17T00:00:00 1946-06-02T00:00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kingdom_of_Italy_(1861%E2%80%931946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172579 A state which existed from 1861—when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy—until 1946—when civil discontent led an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic. The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered its legal predecessor state. Italian Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia