By what date were Italy and the country which scored the most point in FIFA 2018 unified into two countries?
18 January 1871
Title: 2018 FIFA World Cup
Passage: The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded the hosting rights on 2 December 2010. This will be the first World Cup held in Europe since the 2006 tournament in Germany; all but one of the stadium venues are in European Russia, west of the Ural Mountains to keep travel time manageable.
Title: Unification of Germany
Passage: The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France. Princes of the German states, excluding Austria, gathered there to proclaim Wilhelm I of Prussia as German Emperor after the French capitulation in the Franco - Prussian War. Unofficially, the de facto transition of most of the German - speaking populations into a federated organization of states had been developing for some time through alliances formal and informal between princely rulers -- but in fits and starts; self - interests of the various parties hampered the process over nearly a century of autocratic experimentation, beginning in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, which saw the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (1806), and the subsequent rise of German nationalism.
Title: FIFA World Rankings
Passage: Top 20 rankings as of 7 June 2018 Rank Change Team Points Germany 1558 Brazil 1431 Belgium 1298 Portugal 1274 5 Argentina 1241 6 Switzerland 1199 7 France 1198 8 Poland 1183 9 Chile 1135 10 Spain 1126 11 Peru 1125 12 Denmark 1051 12 England 1051 14 Uruguay 1018 15 Mexico 989 16 Colombia 986 17 Netherlands 981 18 Wales 953 19 Italy 951 20 Croatia 945 * Change from 17 May 2018 Complete rankings at FIFA.com
FIFA World Rankings Unification of Germany