The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia was founded in 1815. The flag of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia is not handed down safely. Probably a black-golden flag was used, as it was used by the Empire of Austria as the national flag. In the internet are frequently displayed some other flags for that kingdom, but this flags are not shure and doubtful. It is e.g. green or yellow colored with a border of black and green triangles, a design, which was well known for Austria since the end of the 18th Century and like it was seen on other Austrian flags. In the middle of the flag appeares the coat of arms of the country. As a further variant, the Austrian naval and war flag is specified as the state flag.
The coat of arms of the country was the crowned Habsburg-Austrian eagle, but with a chest-shield, surrounded by the order-collar of the Order of the Goldnen Fleece. The shield was quartered into the heraldry of the Duchy of Milan and Venice, a dragon that spits out a man (bears a man), and the lion of St. Marcus. A central heart-shield showed the insignia of the ruling dynasty, the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
1714 · peace treaty of Utrecht, the Duchy of Milan (Lombardy) becomes an Austrian-Habsburg estate
1797 · invasion of French revolutionary troops into the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan
1798 · Peace of Campo Formio, Venice becomes - under exception of the Ionian Islands which remain at France - a Habsburg Austrian Duchy, the Duchy of Milan gets dissolved and incorporated into Napolèonic satellite states
1805 · Peace of Pressburg, Austria cedes Venice to France, the area comes to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy
1814/15 · Congress of Vienna, reconstruction of Europe after the era of Napoléon, Lombardy and Venetia become combined to form the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, the King is the Emperor of Austria
1851 · division into the two crown lands of Lombardy and Veneto
1859 · Austro-French War, after the battles of Magenta and Solferino Austria has to cede Lombardy, including Bergamo and Brescia to France, the name 'Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia' remains nominally
1860 · France exchanges the Lombardy against Savoy and the County of Nice with Sardinia-Piedmont, Lombardy becomes in this way a part of Sardinia-Piedmont and thus a part of the in 1861 by the House of Savoy (the ruling dynasty of Sardinia-Piedmont) founded Kingdom of Italy
1866 · Austro-Italian War, after the peace of Villafranca Austria has to cede Venetia to Italy, the 'Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia' disappears
The name "Lombardy-Venetia" expresses the combination of the country out of the two parts of the country, Lombardy (former Duchy of Milan) and Veneto (former Republic and Duchy of Venice).
