Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)

The Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy was the north Italian crown Napoleon made for himself in 1805 from the Italian Republic he already presided, with his 24-year-old stepson Eugene de Beauharnais as his viceroy. The government ran seven ministers, adding a Court of Accounts in 1812. Born on 17 March and crowned on 23 May in Milan Cathedral with the Iron Crown of Lombardy, it gathered Milan, Mantua, Modena, west Venice with Istria and Dalmatia, Romagna and the Agogna department on Novara into 84,000 square kilometres and six and a half million subjects, losing Massa and Carrara to Elisa's Lucca and Piombino, trading Monfalcone for Gradisca at Fontainebleau in 1807, ruling Venice, Istria and Dalmatia with Cattaro at its height, while the rest of Napoleon's Italy stayed French departments. A client of revolutionary France in everything from codes to conscription, it ended with Napoleon's fall, and in 1814 the nine-year kingdom dissolved into the restoration.