Cavour timeline
Tuesday 21 - Thursday 23 January: speeches held in the Chamber on the trade agreement with France;
Friday 24 January: he signs a trade agreement with Belgium;
Saturday 1 February: he has lunch at the Whist club;
Sunday 9 February: he has lunch at the Whist club;
Monday 10 February: he has lunch at the Whist club;
Friday 14 February: he has lunch at the Whist club;
Thursday 27 February: he signs a trade and navigation agreement with Great Britain.
Thursday 20 March: his niece Giuseppina, Gustavo’s second child, is married to Carlo Alfieri di Sostegno, Count of Magliano;
Monday 14-Tuesday 15 April: he holds speeches in the Chamber on the trade deals with Belgium and Great Britain;
Wednesday 16 April: he writes to Alexandre de Talleyrand-Périgord;
Saturday 19 April: after Giovanni Nigra resigns he takes on the post of Ministry of Finance;
Tuesday 20 May: he signs a trade agreement with the Zollverein (the German Customs Union);
19 June-22 July: through Count Ottavio di Revel he negotiates and obtains a loan from London Bank Hambros;
Tuesday 24 June: he signs a trade agreement with the Netherlands;
Friday 18 July: he holds a speech in the Chamber on a legislation project regarding changes on the National Bank’s statutes.
Thursday 5 February: he holds a speech in the Chamber on a legislation project regarding changes on press regulation: first signs of the «connubio» (alliance) with Rattazzi’s center-left group;
Saturday 14 February: Cavour signs a new trade deal with France;
Sunday 16 May: The d’Azeglio government resigns;
Saturday 22 May: The second d’Azeglio government is formed, excluding Cavour and Farini;
Sunday 27 June: Cavour is made President of the Political Economy Society;
July: trip to England;
Tuesday 10 August: he turns 42;
Monday 30 August: he arrives in Paris;
Friday 15 October: he returns to Torino;
Thursday 4 November: the first Cavour government is formed with him acting as Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture and Trade;
Thursday 16 December: he holds a speech in the Senate on the legislation project regarding Civil Marriage.
Tuesday 18 October: demonstrations held against Cavour regarding the price of bread;
Thursday 27 October: government reshuffle: Rattazzi replaces Boncompagni as Minister of Justice;
Sunday 20 November: the Chamber is disbanded;
Thursday 8 December: he is elected for the 5th legislature in the seat of Torino 1;
Monday 19 December: debut of the 5th legislature;
Monday 26 December: he takes part with other ministers to the test run of the Torino-Genova railway line.
Monday 27 March: France and Great Britain declare war on Russia;
Monday 10 April: Anglo-French alliance treaty;
Wednesday 19 April: the cabinet rejects Cavour’s proposal of joining the Anglo-French treaty and go to war;
Friday 28 April: he writes to Nathan Meyer Rothschild & Sons from Torino;
Saturday 29 April: he writes to Giacomo Cevasco from Torino;
Sunday 30 April: he writes to Charles Laffitte;
Sunday 7-Monday 8 January: conflicts in government on joining the Anglo-French alliance. Dabormida resigns as Minister of Foreign affairs: Cavour takes on the post ad interim;
Wednesday 10 January: he signs a protocol for joining the Anglo-French alliance;
Friday 26 January: he signs the military and financial agreements with France and Great Britain;
Tuesday 6 February: he holds a speech in the Chamber regarding the alliance and Piedmontese mission in Crimea;
Saturday 17 February: he holds a speech in the Chamber regarding the legislation project on suppressing religious orders;
Friday 23 February: he holds a speech in the Chamber regarding the legislation project on suppressing religious orders;
Friday 2 March: he holds a speech in the Senate on the alliance treaty and the mission;
Saturday 7 April: he writes to Salvatore Pes di Villamarina;
Sunday 8 April: he writes to Charles Viale from Torino;
Wednesday 25 April: he holds a speech in the Senate on suppressing religious orders;
Thursday 26 April: the Cavour government resigns due to the proposals by the episcopate against the suppression of religious orders. General Giacomo Durando is put in charge of forming a new government;
Thursday 3 May: the Durando attempt having failed, minister Cavour retains his post;
Wednesday 9 May: he holds another speech to the Senate regarding legislation for the suppression of religious orders;
Tuesday 22 May: he holds another speech to the Senate regarding legislation for the suppression of religious orders;
Tuesday 29 May: legislation on the suppression of religious orders is approved;
Thursday 31 May: the Cavour government is reconvened. Count Cibrario takes up the post of Minister for Foreign Affairs;
Friday 10 August: he turns 45;
Sunday 12 August: Hudson visits him in Santena with colonel Percy;
Tuesday 14 August: he writes to Alfonso La Marmora;
Tuesday 20 November: he leaves for Lyon with Massimo d’Azeglio;
Thursday 22 November: he joins the king’s entourage in Lyon to visit Paris and London;
Friday 30 November: he arrives in London with the king;
Thursday 6 December: he leaves London with the king, heading for Paris. Napoleon III invites him to send him a memo on the Italian question;
Tuesday 11 December: he returns to Torino.
Saturday 9 February: he is appointed first plenipotentiary for Piedmont at the Paris Congress regarding the Eastern question;
Friday 15 February: he arrives in Paris for the Congress;
Monday 10 March: he informs Rattazzi of Minghetti’s arrival in Paris;
Friday 28 March: he writes to Arese, Emanuele d’Azeglio and Cibrario from Paris;
Sunday 30 March: the Paris Treaty is signed;
Thursday 3 April: he visits Lady Holland; in the morning he speaks with Orloff; dinner with M. de Parieu;
Friday 4 April: dinner with Rothschild. Count Hatzfeld’s ball;
Tuesday 8 April: the Italian question is discussed at the Congress;
Friday 11 April: he meets Lord Clarendon;
Saturday 12 April: he has lunch with Napoleon III, meets Giorgio Pallavicino Trivulzio and writes to Rattazzi;
Sunday 13 April: he writes to Alfonso Ferrero della Marmora from Paris;
Monday 14 April: dinner at the Hotel de Ville and visits The King of Westfalia, Jérôme Bonaparte;
Wednesday 16 April: the Congress ends. He speaks to the British Minister for Foreign Affairs Lord Clarendon;
Thursday 17 April: he travels to London to hold important political meetings;
Friday 18 April: he spends the night at the Cobourg Hotel in London;
Saturday 19 April: he spends the night at the Cobourg Hotel in London;
Sunday 20 April: he spends the night at the Cobourg Hotel in London;
Monday 21 April: he spends the night at the Cobourg Hotel in London;
Tuesday 22 April: he spends the night at the Cobourg Hotel in London;
Wednesday 23 April: he spends the night at the Cobourg Hotel in London;
Thursday 24 April: he spends the night at the Cobourg Hotel in London;
Friday 25 April: he spends the night at the Cobourg Hotel in London;
Monday 28 April: he spends the night at the Hôtel de la Poste in Chambéry;
Tuesday 29 April: he returns to Torino. He is awarded the Collare dell’Annunziata;
Sunday 4 May: he takes on the post of Minister for Foreign Affairs after Cibrario’s resignation;
Tuesday 6 May: he holds a speech in the Chamber on the Paris Congress;
Friday 1 August: he writes to La Marmora, Rattazzi and Teodoro di Santa Rosa from Baveno;
Saturday 2 August: he writes to Giuseppina Benso and Gautieri from Baveno;
Friday 12 September: he initiates contact with La Farina, secretary of the National Society.
Thursday 15 January: he holds a speech in the Chamber on the government’s attitudes towards business in Italy;
Saturday 14 March: he holds a speech in the Chamber on the legislation project regarding the fortification of Alessandria;
Wednesday 29 April: he holds a speech in the Chamber on the transfer of the military Navy from Genoa to the Gulf of La Spezia;
Wednesday 3 June: he holds a speech in the Chamber on the legislation project regarding the tunneling of Moncenisio;
Monday 31 August: he attends the official opening of the works to tunnel through Moncenisio (Fréjus Tunnel) in Modane;
Sunday 8 November: he signs a second will making his nephew Ainardo sole heir;
Sunday 15 November: he wins the elections in Torino 1 for the 6th legislature and is defeated in Annecy;
Monday 14 December: debut of the 6th legislature;
Wednesday 30 December: he holds a speech in the Chamber on the clergy’s intervention in the latest elections.
Wednesday 13 January: he takes on the post of Minister of the Interior after Rattazzi’s resignation and the post of Minister of Finance in Lanza;
Thursday 14 January: assassination attempt by Orsini against Napoleon III;
Wednesday 20 January: he has lunch at the Whist club;
Wednesday 17 February: he presents to the Chamber of Deputies a legislation project to punish crimes against the life of foreign rulers and jury reform for press violations;
Monday 19 April: he holds a speech in the Chamber on the previously mentioned project;
Wednesday 19-Thursday 20 May: speeches held in the Chamber for a loan worth 40 million;
Sunday 11 July: he leaves Torino for Switzerland traveling through Savoy;
Saturday 17 July: sympathy is shown in Geneva;
Sunday 18 July: he leaves for Plombières;
Wednesday 21 July: in Plombières he meets Napoleon III from 11 AM to 3 PM and then from 4 to 7 PM, traveling by carriage to La Chaudeau close to the thermal springs town;
Thursday 22 July: he leaves Plombières for Strasbourg, Baden, Basel, Colca and Locarno;
Saturday 24 July: he writes to Vittorio Emanuele II from Baden summarizing his conversations with Napoleon III;
Tuesday 10 August: he turns 48;
Monday 20 December: he speaks with Garibaldi in Torino.
Monday 10 January: Crown speech: the «cry of pain»;
Sunday 16 January: prince Napoleon and General Niel arrive in Torino on an official mission;
Sunday 23 January: he secures a defense alliance treaty between Piedmont and France with the French envoys and related military and financial conventions, signed by the monarchs on the 26th and 29th;
Sunday 30 January: princess Clotilde of Savoy and prince Napoleon are married;
Wednesday 9 February: he holds a speech in the Chamber regarding a loan worth 50 million;
Wednesday 2 March: meetings with Garibaldi;
Thursday 17 March: he signs decrees to establish the «Cacciatori delle Alpi» (Alpine Hunters) and appointing Garibaldi as their commander and Mayr as Sardinian General;
Thursday 24 March: he leaves for Paris;
Saturday 26-Wednesday 30 March: meetings with Napoleon III on the Congress and disarmament proposals;
Friday 1 April: he returns to Torino. A pro-war demonstration is held in front of his palace;
Saturday 23 April: he proposes to the Chamber to confer full powers to the King for the entire duration of the war. Shortly afterwards he receives an ultimatum from Austria;
Tuesday 26 April: he rejects the ultimatum;
29 April: the Austrians invade Lomellina;
Monday 2 May: as La Marmora leaves for the battlefield he replaces him as Minister of War and the Navy;
Thursday 12 May: together with the prince of Carignano he receives Napoleon III when he lands in Genova;
Saturday 4 June: the French-Sardinian army defeats the Austrians in Magenta;
Wednesday 8 June: Napoleon III and Vittorio Emanuele II triumphantly enter Milan;
Thursday 9 June: he travels to Milan, summoned by the King. Meeting with Napoleon III;
Friday 24 June: battles of Solferino and S. Martino. He leaves for headquarters summoned by the king;
Saturday 25 June (evening): he arrives in Rivoltella;
Sunday 26 June: meeting with Napoleon III in Cavriana;
Tuesday 28 June: he returns to Torino;
Friday 8 July: an armistice valid until 15 August is signed in Villafranca;
Saturday 9 July: he leaves on his own initiative for the camp;
Sunday 10 July: he arrives in Monzambano;
Monday 11 July: in the morning a meeting is held between Napoleon III and Francesco Giuseppe in Villafranca to discuss a first peace agreement, the preliminary agreement is signed in the evening. At midnight the king illustrates the agreement to Cavour in a dramatic meeting which ends with the Count’s resignation;
Tuesday 12 July: heated meeting with prince Napoleon;
Friday 15 July: meeting in Torino with Napoleon III;
Tuesday 19 July: a new La Marmora-Rattazzi government is formed. Cavour retires to Leri;
Sunday 24 July: he leaves for Switzerland. He stays with the De La Rives in Geneva;
Wednesday 10 August: he turns 49;
Sunday 21 August: he leaves Geneva for Aix-les-Bains;
Sunday 28 August: he announces to Corio he is leaving Aix-les-Bains for Torino;
Wednesday 31 August: he returns to Torino;
Thursday 1 September: from Torino he writes to Émile De La Rüe, Auguste De La Rive thanking him for his hospitality in Presinge, and to Costantino Nigra;
Sunday 4 September: he goes to San Martino Alfieri to visit his niece Giuseppina;
Monday 5 September: he writes to Bianca Ronzani from San Martino;
Tuesday 6 September: in San Martino;
Thursday 8 September: he writes to Alessandro Manzoni from Torino;
Sunday 11 September: he retires to Leri;
Friday 16 September: from Leri he writes to Corio informing him of Giuseppe Verdi’s arrival on the following day;
Saturday 17 September: Hudson and Giuseppe Verdi visit him in Leri;
Sunday 18 September: he writes to Castelli, Torelli and to an unknown person from Leri;
Friday 23 September: he writes to Ricasoli from Leri;
24 September, Saturday: he writes to Dabormida from Leri telling him he is pleased he is staying with his brother Gustavo in Palazzo Cavour;
Tuesday 27 September: Count Stackelberg visits him;
Wednesday 28 September: he writes to Castelli and Farini from Leri;
Friday 30 September: in Torino he oversees works by the ministerial Commission of which he is President on the new electoral legislation;
Sunday 2 October: he writes to Cesare Cantù from Leri;
Thursday 6 October: he writes to Castelli, La Farina and Onorato Vigliani from Leri;
Sunday 9 October: he writes to Rigras from Leri;
Tuesday 11 October: he writes to Émile De La Rüe from Torino;
Wednesday 12 October: despite an attack of gout he attends the meeting of the Commission for the new electoral legislation in Torino and writes to Ronzani;
Friday 14 October: he sends a packet of sweets to his God-son Camillino Corio;
Wednesday 19 October: he writes to Castelli and Ronzani from Leri. He recovers from his illness but continues to limp;
Friday 21 October: he writes to Castelli, Émile De La Rüe and Salmour from Leri;
Sunday 23 October: he writes to Castelli and Salmour from Leri;
Monday 24 October: he writes to Émile De La Rüe, Massari, Panizzi and Salvagnoli from Leri; he reveals he is still suffering from health issues;
Tuesday 25 October: he writes to Alexandre Lombard from Torino;
Wednesday 26 October: he writes to Cassinis;
Thursday 27 October: he writes to Pissard from Leri;
Saturday 29 October: in Torino to buy horses. He writes to La Marmora;
Sunday 30 October: in Torino he receives Farina at 5:54, Minghetti at 7:45 and La Marmora at 8. He writes to Émile De La Rüe in Beulé;
Monday 31 October: he arrives in Leri in the evening;
Tuesday 1 November: he writes to Torelli from Leri;
Wednesday 2 November: he writes to Dabormida and Tosco from Leri;
Monday 7 November: he writes to La Marmora and Sommeiller from Leri;
Wednesday 9 November: he writes to Gualterio, Massari, Oytana, Tosco and an unknown person from Leri;
Thursday 10 November: he writes to Oldofredi Tadini and Torelli from Leri;
Friday 11 November: he writes to Artom and Oytana from Torino. A cabinet meeting is held including Cavour, Massimo d’Azeglio and Boncompagni, to discuss the prince of Carignano’s regency in Central Italy;
Saturday 12 November: he writes to La Marmora from Torino;
Sunday 13 November: he writes to Boncompagni, Elena and Quadrio from Leri;
Wednesday 16 November, : he writes to Pepoli from Leri;
Thursday 17 November: he writes to Rattazzi from Leri;
Friday 18 November: he writes to Cassinis, Castelli and Oytana from Leri;
Sunday 20 November: he writes to Oytana from Leri;
Tuesday 22 November: he writes to Nigra and Salvagnoli from Leri;
Wednesday 23 November: he writes to Anastasie de Circourt, La Farina and to an unknown person from Leri;
Saturday 26 November: he writes to Castelli and Corio from Leri;
Thursday 1 December: he writes to Ronzani;
Saturday 3 December: he writes to Salmour from Torino then leaves for Leri;
Sunday 4 December: he writes to Carlo Alfieri di Sostegno, his niece Giuseppina, Carderina, Castiglione and Oytana from Leri;
Wednesday 7 December: Nigra arrives in Leri to see Cavour, sent by Dabormida;
Thursday 8 December: he writes to Boncompagni, Castelli, Cugia and Ronzani from Leri;
Friday 9 December: he writes to Boggio from Leri;
Wednesday 14 December: he writes to Nigra;
Thursday 15 December: he writes to La Farina from Leri;
Sunday 18 December: he writes to Castelli and Ronzani from Leri;
Tuesday 20 December: he writes to Corio from Leri;
Friday 23 December: meeting with the King at 8; he is appointed plenipotentiary for the European Congress in preparation, which in the end will not take place. He writes to Corio from Torino;
Saturday 24 December: he writes to Boggio;
Sunday 25 December: he writes to Boncompagni, Farini and Ricasoli;
Monday 26 December: he writes to Arrivabene, Dabormida, Dondero, Favre, Mongeot, Santa Rosa and Scala from Torino;
Wednesday 28 December: he has lunch at the Whist club and writes to D’Azeglio and Marliani;
Thursday 29 December: he writes to Farini from Torino;
Friday 30 December: he writes to Boncompagni, Ferraris, Gualterio, Ricci and Vigliani from Torino;
Saturday 31 December: he writes to Mantellini and Parent from Torino.
Sunday 1 January: he writes to Corio from Torino;
Monday 2 January: he writes to Farini and La Farina from Torino;
Tuesday 3 January: he writes to Cugia, Farini and again to Farini from Torino;
Thursday 5 January: lunch at the Whist club;
Friday 6 January: he sends a telegram to Gualterio and writes to Barbiano di Belgioioso from Torino;
Saturday 7 January: he writes to Belly, De La Rive and Farini from Torino;
Sunday 8 January: he writes to Fanti;
Monday 9 January: he decides to retire to Leri, but writes to Anastasie de Circourt, Farini, Oldofredi Tadini, Pareto and Sappa from Torino;
Wednesday 11 January: he writes to Boncompagni, Grimaldi Cagnes, Guglianetti and Vigliani from Torino, then leaves for Leri;
Friday 13 January: Marliani visits him in Leri and he returns to Torino;
Sunday 15 January: he writes to Cugia and De La Rive;
Monday 16 January: he writes to Farini and Guglianetti; he decides to leave for Leri. Before he leaves the La Marmora-Rattazzi government resigns. The King appoints Cavour to form a new government;
Tuesday 17 January: he writes to Elena and Niccolini;
Wednesday 18 January: he writes to Farini; the King undergoes blood-letting;
Thursday 19 January: he writes to D’Azeglio from Torino;
Friday 20 January: the new Cavour government takes office, with the Count acting as Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and ad interim Minister for Home Affairs. He writes to the Legazioni Sarde, Ricasoli, Farini, Massimo d’Azeglio and Farini; he meets Cialdini at 8;
Saturday 21 January: he writes to Cadorna, Elena and Lanza;
Sunday 22 January: he writes to Luigi di Belgioioso, Depretis, Mamiani, Marliani and Torrigiani;
Monday 23 January: he writes to Spinola, Massimo d’Azeglio, Des Ambrois, again to Des Ambrois and finally to Pettinengo;
Tuesday 24 January: he writes to Emanuele d’Azeglio, Elena, Jacini and Pantaleoni from Torino;
Wednesday 25 January: he writes to Farini, Napoleone Girolamo Bonaparte and Durando from Torino;
Thursday 26 January: he writes to Villamarina, Maestri and D’Azeglio;
Friday 27 January: he writes to Des Ambrois, Farini, the Legazioni Sarde, Montezemolo, Ricasoli and Farini from Torino;
Saturday 28 January: he writes to Emanuele d’Azeglio, Durio, Des Ambrois, Serra and again to Serra from Torino;
Sunday 29 January: he writes to Durio and Notta;
Monday 30 January: he writes to Des Ambrois, Farini, again to Farini, then to La Farina, Torelli, Marliani, Saredo and Strambio from Torino;
Tuesday 31 January: he writes to Arese, Carafa and Kinnaird from Torino;
Wednesday 1 February: he writes to Farini, Des Ambrois, twice again to Farini, then to Ricasoli and Guell y Ruente from Torino;
Thursday 2 February: he writes to Guy, Ricasoli and Spinola from Torino;
Friday 3 February: he writes to Emanuele d’Azeglio, Farini, Ricasoli, again to Farini, Pietri and Vecchi;
Saturday 4 February: he writes to Napoleone Girolamo Bonaparte, Lullin, Nigra and Pepoli from Torino;
Sunday 5 February: he writes to Des Ambrois, Paleocapa, Sauli d’Igliano; he dines with Tuscan commissioners;
Tuesday 15-Sunday 27 February: official visits to Milan, Bergamo and Brescia;
Sunday 18 March: takes charge of the Navy, separately from the ministry of War;
Sunday 18 and Thursday 22 March: he signs decrees for the annexation of Emilia and Tuscany;
Saturday 24 March: he signs the treaty handing over Nice and Savoy to France. Farini takes the post of minister of Home Affairs;
Sunday 25 March: for the 7th legislature he is elected in the seats of Torino 1, Milano 1, Genova 2, Firenze 2, Bologna, Brescia, Vercelli and Intra. He chooses Torino;
Monday 2 April: the 7th legislature opens with speeches by members from Lombardy and Central Italy;
Monday 16 April: official visit to Florence with the King. He has a heated disagreement with the King;
Tuesday 17 April: he calls Farini to take his place next to the King;
Saturday 21-Sunday 22 April: he stops in Genoa and arrives back in Torino;
Wednesday 2 May: official visit with the king in Bologna;
Saturday 5 May: he returns to Torino;
Sunday 6 May: The Thousand leave from Quarto;
Saturday 26 May: holds a speech in chamber on the handover of Nice and Savoy;
Sunday 27 May: Garibaldi enters Palermo;
Tuesday 17 July-10 August: he negotiates with Neapolitan envoys, Manna and Winspeare;
August: he attempts to stir a national movement in Naples before Garibaldi’s arrival;
Sunday 19 August: Garibaldi lands in Calabria;
Friday 7 September: Garibaldi enters Naples;
Tuesday 11 September: he orders general Fanti to enter Marche and Umbria;
Tuesday 18 September: victory of Castelfidardo;
Saturday 29 September: Ancona is stormed;
Tuesday 2 October: battle of Volturno between Garibaldi’s forces and the Bourbon army. Cavour presents to the Chamber a legislation project for the acceptance by royal decree of annexations to the State of other Italian provinces;
Thursday 11 October: he holds a speech in the chamber on the project presented on 2 October;
Monday 15 October: Vittorio Emanuele crosses the Neapolitan border;
Sunday 21-Monday 22 October: referendums are held in Southern Italy and in Sicily;
Friday 26 October: meeting in Teano between Vittorio Emanuele and Garibaldi;
Sunday 4-Monday 5 November: referendums held in Umbria and Marche;
Wednesday 7 November: Vittorio Emanuele enters Naples.
Thursday 10 January: he has lunch at the Whist club;
Sunday 27 January: in the elections held all over Italy for the 8th legislature he is elected in the seats of Torino 1 and Ancona. He chooses Torino;
Wednesday 13 February: at 6.15 PM the fortress of Gaeta surrenders. The artillery on both sides cease hostilities as a cease-fire starts after surrender is signed; the garrison leaves the fort with honors of war;
Friday 15 February: he sends a telegram to Minghetti from Milan; a second telegram to Minghetti;
Monday 18 February: the first Italian Parliament opens;
Wednesday 20 February: he sends a telegram to Persano from Torino;
Thursday 21 February: he presents to the Senate a legislation project of one sole article whereby Vittorio Emanuele assumes the title of King of Italy;
Monday 25 February: he sends a telegram to Bourdon de Vatry and writes to Emanuele d’Azeglio, Figarolo di Gropello, Hudson, Enrico della Rocca, Nigra, Eugenio di Savoia, M.me Bourdon de Vatry and Vimercati;
Tuesday 26 February: he sends a telegram to Gropello, Eugenio di Savoia, Bajo, Vimercati, a second one to Vimercati; he writes to Gropello, Massimo di Montezemolo and Morozzo della Rocca; in Senate, he takes the floor in the debate on the legislation project to award the title of King of Italy to Vittorio Emanuele;
Wednesday 27 February: he sends a telegram to Nigra;
Thursday 28 February: he sends a telegram to Giulio di Gropello, Genova Thaon di Revel and Ottaviano Vimercati;
Friday 1 March: he sends telegrams to Giulio di Gropello and Nigra from Torino; he writes to Emanuele d’Azeglio and Jocteau;
Saturday 2 March: he sends a first telegram to Emanuele d’Azeglio, then a second one to Emanuele d’Azeglio, and to Castellinard, Cialdini, Nigra, Vimercati; he writes to Emanuele d’Azeglio and Vimercati;
Monday 4 March: he sends a telegram to Cialdini, Giulio di Gropello, Jocteau, Nigra, Genova Thaon di Revel, Teccio di Bajo and Tornielli-Brusati; he writes to Nigra; in the Chamber he speaks on validating the election of Count Oldofredi Tadini;
Tuesday 5 March: he sends a telegram to Nigra, again to Nigra and to Eugenio di Savoia; he writes to Eugenio di Savoia;
Wednesday 6 March: he sends a telegram to Nigra from Torino, writes to Gabriele Costa and Nigra; in the Chamber he speaks on confirming electoral results in the seat of Asti;
Thursday 7 March: he sends telegrams to Emanuele d’Azeglio, Giulio di Gropello, Cialdini, Massimo di Montezemolo, Nigra and Eugenio di Savoia from Torino;
Friday 8 March: he sends a telegram to Eugenio di Savoia and writes to Emanuele d’Azeglio, Massimo di Montezemolo and Eugenio di Savoia from Torino;
Saturday 9 March: he sends a telegram to Nigra, Eugenio di Savoia, Teccio di Bajo, Vimercati and writes to Farini, Klapka, Rayneval and Vimercati from Torino; in the Chamber he speaks on the procedure to follow after part of the Presidency’s office is elected;
Sunday 10 March: he sends a telegram to Emanuele d’Azeglio, Eugenio di Savoia and Teccio di Bajo from Torino;
Monday 11 March: he sends a telegram to Durando, Leardi and Nigra; he writes to Rayneval; in the Chamber he stresses the urgency of discussing the legislation project to give the title of King of Italy to Vittorio Emanuele; he takes the floor again in the chamber to answer a question by Massari;
Tuesday 12 March: he sends a telegram to Nigra, Eugenio di Savoia and Teccio di Bajo; he writes to Cerruti, to the General Command of the Northern Maritime Department, to Eugenio di Savoia and Serra;
Wednesday 13 March: he sends a telegram to Nigra, Eugenio di Savoia, another one to Eugenio di Savoia and writes to Vimercati; he takes the floor in the Chamber to communicate the fall of Messina and to reply to Petruccelli;
Thursday 14 March: he speaks to the Chamber once more on the legislation project to reply to Brofferio, a second time to ask the President to allow everyone to take a stand on the issue, and a third to reply to Ricciardi; he writes a telegram to Gropello, Emanuele d’Azeglio, Lunay, Vimercati, Vimercati again, and to the Legazioni Sarde; he writes to Caputo and Eugenio di Savoia;
Friday 15 March: he sends a telegram to Nigra and Teccio di Bajo; he writes to Cassinis, Koenigswater and Tecco; he takes the floor in the Chamber;
Saturday 16 March: he sends a telegram to Nigra and Vimercati; he writes to Emanuele d’Azeglio twice, to Girolamo Napoleone and to Vimercati;
Sunday 17 March: Vittorio Emanuele II assumes the title of King of Italy. Cavour sends a telegram to Emanuele d’Azeglio, Vimercati and writes to Emanuele d’Azeglio;
Monday 18 March: he sends a telegram to Vimercati and writes to Cerruti, Charvaz, Mayr, Nisco, Oytana, and two to Raineval;
Tuesday 19 March: he sends a telegram to Di Negro, Massimo di Montezemolo, Eugenio di Savoia and Vimercati;
Wednesday 20 March: the Cavour government resigns. He sends a telegram to the General Command of the Navy, to Giulio di Gropello, Emanuele d’Azeglio, to Temple’s intendent, two to Nigra, one to Perano and to Vimercati; he writes to Launay, Vimercati and Vittorio Emanuele II;
Saturday 23 March: the new Cavour government is formed, the first Italian government; the Count acts as President, and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for the Navy;
Monday 25 March: he holds the first speech in Torino (Chamber of Deputies) on Rome capital of Italy and on the relationship between the State and the Church;
Wednesday 27 March: he holds the second speech in Torino (Chamber of Deputies) on Rome capital of Italy and on the relationship between the State and the Church;
Thursday 18 April: clash in the chamber between Garibaldi and Cavour;
Wednesday 29 May: he is taken ill;
Wednesday 5 June: he receives a telegram from Adelaide Ristori, he can no longer reply;
Thursday 6 June: he dies in Palazzo Cavour, Torino, at 6,45;
Saturday 8 June: his funeral takes place in Torino and he is buried in Santena.