The Kingdom of Italy was a state founded in Northern Italy by Napoleon, fully influenced by revolutionary France, that ended with his defeat and fall.
The Kingdom of Italy was born on March 17, 1805, when the Italian Republic, whose president was Napoleon, became Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy, and the twenty-four years old Eugène de Beauharnais as viceroy. Napoleon was crowned in Milan’s cathedral on May 26, with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. Napoleon title was Emperor of the French and King of Italy, showing the importance of this Italian Kingdom for him.
Emperor of the French and King of Italy