Five Days of Milan

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Five Days of Milan
Part of the First Italian War of Independence
The Five Days of Milan by Carlo Bossoli
Date 18–22 March 1848 Location Milan, Lombardy–Venetia (present-day Italy) 45°28′01″N 09°11′24″E / 45.46694°N 9.19000°E / 45.46694; 9.19000 Result Milanese revolt victorious[1] Radetzky retreats from Milan[2]
Belligerents
Milanese insurgents	Austria
Commanders and leaders
Carlo Cattaneo Gabrio Casati Luciano Manara [2][3][4][5]	Joseph Radetzky Ludwig von Wohlgemuth [6][7][8][9]
Strength
1,700 barricades[10] armed with 600–650 firearms along with stones, bottles, clubs, pikes and swords [10][11]	12,000 garrison[7][12]
Casualties and losses
409–424 killed[3][6] including 43 women and children 600+ wounded[6]	181 killed[13] including 5 officers 235 wounded[6] including 4 officers 150–180 captured[13]

Provisional Government of Milan Governo provvisorio di Milano (in Italian)
1848–1848
Capital	Milan
Common languages	Italian, Lombard
Government	Republic
President
Historical era	Revolutions of 1848
• Congress of Vienna grants Lombardy–Venetia to the Austrian Empire	9 June 1815
• Insurrection against Habsburg rule	18 March 1848
• Radetzky withdraws to Quadrilatero	22 March 1848
• Battle of Solferino wins Lombardy for Italy	24 June 1859
Preceded by Succeeded by Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia Kingdom of Sardinia

The Five Days of Milan (Italian: Cinque giornate di Milano [ˈtʃiŋkwe dʒorˈnaːte di miˈlaːno]) was an insurrection and a major event in the Revolutionary Year of 1848 that started the First Italian War of Independence. On 18 March, a rebellion arose in the city of Milan which in five days of street fighting drove Marshal Radetzky and his Austrian soldiers from the city.