lucca
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Republic of Lucca
Republic of Lucca (France)
Principality of Lucca and Piombino
Duchy of Lucca
Establishment
January 1163: Foundation of the Republic of Lucca.
Chronology
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Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.
January 1799: On January 1799 the french troups capture Lucca.
March 1805: The Principality of Lucca and Piombino was a state created from the union of the Principality of Piombino with Lucca and assigned by Napoleon I to his sister Elisa and brother-in-law Felice Baciocchi on March 18, 1805.
June 1805: Napoleon creates the Principality of Lucca-Piombino and assigns it to his sister Elisa Bonaparte and her husband Felice Baciocchi. End of the ancient Republic of Lucca.
January 1807: Napoleon awarded Massa and Carrara to the Principality of Lucca and Piombino.
1.1.War of the Sixth Coalition
Was a war between France and a a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Sweden, and a number of German States. The coalition emerged after the decimation of the French army in the French invasion of Russia. The coalition ultimately invaded France and forced Napoleon to abdicate and go into exile.
March 1814: After the Congress of Vienna in 1814, the former republic of Lucca was transformed into a duchy under the rule of Maria Luisa of Spain. Piombino, on the other hand, was annexed to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany under the control of Ferdinand III.
1.2.Congress of Vienna
Was a series of international diplomatic meetings after the end of the Napoleonic wars whose aim was a long-term peace plan for Europe. It redraw the borders of Europe and partially restored the Monarchies of the pre-revolutionary period.
June 1815: According to the Congress of Vienna and because of the end of the Principality of Lucca-Piombino, the Duchy of Massa/Principality of Carrara is restored under the rule of Maria Beatrice d'Este.
June 1815: According to the Congress of Vienna, Lucca maintains its indipendence from Tuscany as a Duchy.
Was a treaty between the Grans Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy of Modena and Reggio, and the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza where the borders between these countries were simplified though the exchange of several exclaves/enclaves in their territories.
November 1847: The Treaty of Florence of 28 November 1844 was a secret agreement stipulated between the governments of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy of Modena and Reggio and the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza. The purpose of the treaty was to implement some provisions and territorial compensations foreseen by the Congress of Vienna of 1815 and to rationalize the borders between the three states in the area of Lunigiana and Garfagnana, where there were still twisted borders and various enclaves.
January 1848: Carlo Lodovico I of Borbone cedes its Duchy to the Granduchy of Tuscany: the successive spartion of the territories composing the Duchy of Lucca makes Tuscany cede to the Duchy of Modena-Reggio the territories of Montignoso, Gallicano, Minucciano, Castiglione di Garfagnana and the area of Lunigiana, while the Duchy of Parma-Piacenza obtains Pontremoli.
January 1171: Conquest of Castiglione di Garfagnana by the Luccans.
January 1256: The Republic of Lucca establishes the city of Pietrasanta in the place of an old Lombard fortress.
January 1301: The Republic of Lucca acquires the area of Montignoso.
January 1438: In 1437, Lucca, not being able to pay a debt of 150,000 scudi contracted a few years earlier with Genoa, allowed it to occupy the seaport of Motrone and some nearby castles.
Disestablishment
January 1848: Carlo Lodovico I of Borbone cedes its Duchy to the Granduchy of Tuscany: the successive spartion of the territories composing the Duchy of Lucca makes Tuscany cede to the Duchy of Modena-Reggio the territories of Montignoso, Gallicano, Minucciano, Castiglione di Garfagnana and the area of Lunigiana, while the Duchy of Parma-Piacenza obtains Pontremoli.
