Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1783, girgizar ƙasa ta lalata yawancin birni, kuma ya ɗauki shekaru da yawa don sake ginawa da sake farfado da rayuwar al'adun Messina. A cikin 1847 yana ɗaya daga cikin biranen farko a Italiya inda Rikicin Risorgimento ya ɓarke. A cikin 1848 ya yi tawaye a fili ga Bourbons mai mulki, amma an sake danne shi sosai. Sai kawai a cikin 1860, bayan Yaƙin Milazzo, sojojin Garibaldine sun mamaye garin. Daya daga cikin manyan mutane na hadin kan Italiya, Giuseppe Mazzini, an zabe shi mataimakin a Messina a babban zaben 1866. Wani girgizar kasa mai karancin karfi ya lalata garin a ranar 16 ga Nuwamba 1894. Birnin ya kusan lalace gaba ɗaya ta girgizar ƙasa
Tsunami da ke tattare da shi a safiyar ranar 28 ga Disamba, 1908, ya kashe kusan mutane 100,000 kuma ya lalata yawancin tsohuwar gine-gine. An sake gina birnin a shekara mai zuwa.