As before the unification era, and backward economic policies, combined with poor sanitary conditions, continued to prevent the country's rural areas from improving
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Agostino Depretis
Agostino Depretis was an Italian statesman and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Italy for several stretches between 1876 and 1887, and was leader of the Historical Left parliamentary group for more than a decade. He is the fourth-longest-serving prime minister in Italian history, after Benito Mussolini, Giovanni Giolitti and Silvio Berlusconi, and at the time of his death he was the long…
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politics · Italian politician (1813–1887) · politician · diplomat · journalist · minister · also Agostino Depretis, Depretis
Born 31 January 1813 · Died 29 July 1887 · Q356711
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1912· 1 entry
1887· 2 entries
Died 1887-07-29.
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Career landmark: minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy (1887–1887).
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1885· 1 entry
Career landmark: minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy (1885–1885).
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1883· 1 entry
When he moved to the right and reshuffled his government to include Marco Minghetti's conservatives
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1881· 1 entry
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1881–1887).
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1879· 1 entry
Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1879–1887).
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1878· 4 entries
Career landmark: minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy (1878–1879).
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Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1878–1879).
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Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1878–1878).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1878–1879).
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1877· 1 entry
Career landmark: minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy (1877–1878).
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1876· 3 entries
Career landmark: minister of Finance of the Kingdom of Italy (1876–1877).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1876–1878).
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Career landmark: minister of Public Works of the Kingdom of Italy (1876–1877).
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1873· 1 entry
Depretis became leader of the Left
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1866· 3 entries
In anticipation of the war with the Austrian Empire, after the signing of the Italo-Prussian alliance, Ricasoli was appointed prime minister by the king to replace General Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, who would lead the I
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Career landmark: minister of the Navy of the Kingdom of Italy (1866–1867).
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Career landmark: minister of Finance of the Kingdom of Italy (1866–1867).
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1862· 1 entry
Career landmark: minister of Public Works of the Kingdom of Italy (1862–1862).
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1860· 3 entries
Depretis went to Sicily on a mission to reconcile the policy of Cavour, who desired the immediate incorporation of the island in the Kingdom of Italy, with that of Garibaldi, who wished to postpone the Sicilian plebiscit
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Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed with his Expedition of the Thousand toward Sicily
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1860–1860).
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1859· 1 entry
Cavour appointed Depretis governor of Brescia
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1857· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1857–1860).
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1853· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1853–1857).
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1849· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1849–1849).
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1848· 1 entry
Joined the Left and founded the newspaper Il Diritto, but he held no political offices
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1813· 1 entry
Born 1813-01-31.
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