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Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia

The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (; ) was a kingdom in northern Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, and part of the Austrian Empire

Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire was a periodization successor state empire founded on a remnant of the Holy Roman Empire centered on what is today's Austria that officially lasted from 1804 to 1867....
. It was established after the defeat of Napoleon, according to the decisions of the Congress of Vienna

Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815....
, on 9 June 1815. The Kingdom ceased to exist when the remaining portion of it was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy

Kingdom of Italy

There have been several distinct entities known as the Kingdom of Italy. Italy under the rule of Odoacer from 476 to 493 is often called the kingdom of Italy, since it encompassed the Italia and Odoacer is periodically styled rex ....
in 1866.

The Congress of Vienna combined the territories of Lombardy

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
(which had been ruled by the Habsburg

Habsburg

The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
s since the 16th century, and by the Austria

Austria

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The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (; ) was a kingdom in northern Italy

Italy

Austrian Empire

Congress of Vienna

Kingdom of Italy

Lombardy

Habsburg

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
n branch of the family from 1713 to 1796) and Venetia (which had been under Austrian rule intermittently since 1797) into a single unit under the Austrian Habsburgs.

Administratively the Kingdom comprised two independent governments in the two parts. Lombardy included the provinces of Milan, Como, Bergamo, Brescia, Pavia, Cremona, Mantova, Lodi-Crema, and Sondrio. Venetia included the provinces of Venice, Verona, Padova, Vicenza, Treviso, Rovigo, Belluno, and Udine.

The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia was first ruled by Francis

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor

Francis II was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Holy Roman Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Austerlitz....
from 1815 to his death in 1835. Ferdinand

Ferdinand I of Austria

Ferdinand I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, King of Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, King of Bohemia. He chose to abdicate, after a series of revolts in 1848....
ruled from 1835 to 1848.

After a popular revolution on 22 March 1848 (The Five Days of Milan
Five Days of Milan

The Five Days of Milan was a major event in the First Italian War of Independence, in which the population of Milan, northern Italy, rebelled against the Austrian Empire occupation forces....
), the Austrians fled from Milan

Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
, which become the capital city of the Governo Provvisorio della Lombardia (Lombardy Provisional Government). The next day, Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
also arose against the Austrians, forming the Governo Provvisorio di Venezia
Republic of San Marco

The Republic of San Marco was an Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states existing for 17 months in 1848?1849. Based on the Venetian lagoon, it extended into most of the wikt:terra firma territory of the Venetian Republic, suppressed 51 years before in the French Revolutionary Wars....
(Venice Provisional Government). The Austrians, after defeating the Sardinian

Kingdom of Sardinia

Kingdom of Sardinia, also known as Piedmont-Sardinia or Sardinia-Piedmont, was the name given to the possessions of the House of Savoy in 1720, when the island of Sardinia was awarded by the Treaty of London to Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia to compensate him for the loss of Sicily to Austrian Empire....
troops at the Custoza

Battle of Custoza (1848)

The Battle of Custoza was fought on July 24 and 25, 1848 during the first Italian War of Independence between the armies of the Austrian Empire, led by Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, and of the Kingdom of Sardinia, led by King Charles Albert of Piedmont....
(24 July-25 July 1848), entered in Milan (6 August) and Venice (24 August 1849), restoring Austrian rule.

Francis Joseph

Franz Joseph I of Austria

Franz Joseph I Karl of the Habsburg was Emperor of Austrian Empire, Apostolic King of Kingdom of Hungary from 1848 until 1916 ....
ruled over the Kingdom for the rest of its existence. His younger brother Maximilian

Maximilian I of Mexico

Maximilian I was a member of Austria's Imperial Habsburg-Lorraine family who was Emperor of Mexico. With the backing of Napoleon III of France and a group of Mexican monarchy, he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico on 10 April 1864....
, who later became Emperor of Mexico, served as his viceroy

Viceroy

A viceroy is a royal official who governs a country or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roi, meaning king....
in Milan between 1857 and 1859.

Lombardy was annexed to the embryonic Italian state in 1859, by the Treaty of Zurich

Treaty of Zurich

The Treaty of Zurich was signed by the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia on November 10, 1859. The agreement was a reaffirmation of the terms of Villafranca, which brought the Austro-Sardinian War to an official close....
after the Second Italian War of Independence

Second Italian War of Independence

The Second War of Italian Independence, Franco-Austrian War, or Austro-Sardinian War was fought by Napoleon III of France and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859....
; Venetia was ceded to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866 in the aftermath of the Seven Weeks War, by the Treaty of Prague

Peace of Prague (1866)

The Peace of Prague was a peace treaty signed at Prague on 23 August, 1866, which ended the Austro-Prussian War. The treaty was lenient toward the Austrian Empire due to the fact that Otto von Bismarck had persuaded William I, German Emperor that maintaining Austria's place in Europe would be better in the future for Prussia than harsh terms....
.

This was also the location where the great inventor Alessandro Volta

Alessandro Volta

Count Alessandro Antonio Anastasio Volta was a Lombardy Physics known especially for the development of the first cell in 1800....
died. He created the first Battery.

Kings of Lombardy-Venetia

Name	Reign	Notes
Franz I of Austria Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Holy Roman Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Austerlitz....	1814-35 1835 Year 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian Calendar ....	previously Duke of Milan
Prince Heinrich XV Reuss zu Plauen	1814-15 1815 Year 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar ....	Viceroy for Franz I
Count Friedrich Heinrich von Bellegarde	1815-16 1816 Year 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar . This year was known as Year Without a Summer because of low global temperatures....	Viceroy for Franz I
Archduke Anton Victor of Austria Archduke Anton Victor of Austria Anton Victor was an Archduke of Habsburg Monarchy and a Grand Masters of the Teutonic Knights of the Teutonic Knights.Anton Victor was the son of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria Luisa of Spain....	1816-18 1818 Year 1818 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian Calendar ....	Viceroy for Franz I
Archduke Rainer of Austria Archduke Rainer of Austria Rainer Joseph Johann Michael Franz Hieronymus, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia was a Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia from 1818 to 1848....	1818-35 1835 Year 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian Calendar ....	Viceroy for Franz I
Ferdinand I of Austria Ferdinand I of Austria Ferdinand I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, King of Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, King of Bohemia. He chose to abdicate, after a series of revolts in 1848....	1835-48 1848 Year 1848 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian Calendar .1848 is historically famous for the Revolutions of 1848 that significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century....	son of Franz I
Archduke Rainer of Austria Archduke Rainer of Austria Rainer Joseph Johann Michael Franz Hieronymus, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia was a Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia from 1818 to 1848....	1835-48 1848 Year 1848 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian Calendar .1848 is historically famous for the Revolutions of 1848 that significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century....	Viceroy for Ferdinand I
Franz Joseph of Austria	1848-59 1859 Year 1859 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar ....	nephew of Ferdinand I
Count Joseph Radetzky von Radetz Joseph Radetzky von Radetz Johann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz was a Czechs nobleman and Habsburg Monarchyn general, immortalised by Johann Strauss I's Radetzky March....	1848-57 1857 Click here for Indian Rebellion of 1857Year 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian Calendar ....	Viceroy for Franz Joseph
Archduke Maximilian of Austria	1857-59 1859 Year 1859 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar ....	Viceroy for Franz Joseph

Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia

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