Kingdom of Sardinia (Savoy)

This article is about the specific polity Kingdom of Sardinia (Savoy) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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In 1720 Savoy exchanged Sicily for Sardinia with Austria. Shortly after it was united to the Savoy possession in Northern Italy.

Establishment

February 1720: Savoy exchanged Sicily for Sardinia.

Chronology

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1. War of the Quadruple Alliance

Was a war initiated by Spain to recover territories lost after the War of the Spanish Succession.

1.1.Treaty of The Hague

Was the treaty that ended the War of the Quadruple Alliance. Spain left all the territories occupied during the war.

Disestablishment

January 1721: The Kingdom of Sardinia - after the War of the Spanish Succession - by virtue of the Treaty of London of 1718 and the Treaty of The Hague of 1720 passed, in that last year, to Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy, who associated the hereditary states of the formed by the Principality of Piedmont with the Duchy of Savoy, the County of Nice and Asti, the duchy of Aosta, the duchy of Monferrato, the lordship of Vercelli, the marquisate of Saluzzo and a part of the duchy of Milan (to these was added then the Duchy of Genoa, following the annexation of the Republic of Genoa decided by the Congress of Vienna). The denomination began to be used progressively to indicate all of the Savoy possessions even if formally the Kingdom of Sardinia continued to be limited to the island of the same name and be institutionally distinct from the so-called mainland states of the Savoy dynasty.