Editing Lombardy (section)

===Modern era===
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[[File:5giornatemilano.jpg|thumbnail|The [[Five Days of Milan]], 1848]]

The restoration of Austrian rule in 1815 as the [[Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia]] was characterised by a struggle with the new ideals introduced by the Napoleonic era. Lombardy was then an important centre of the ''[[Risorgimento]]'', with the [[Five Days of Milan]] in March 1848, the [[Ten Days of Brescia]] in 1849, the [[Belfiore martyrs]] in Mantua in the years between 1851 and 1853. The annexation of Lombardy to the [[Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia]] occurred following the [[Second Italian War of Independence]] in 1859, a war during which Lombardy was the main theatre of battle (battles of [[Battle of Montebello (1859)|Montebello]], [[Battle of Palestro|Palestro]], [[Battle of Magenta|Magenta]], [[Battle of Solferino|Solferino]] and [[Battle of San Fermo|San Fermo]]). 

In 1861, with the [[proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy]], Lombardy became part of the modern Italian state, except for the central-eastern part of the [[province of Mantua]] which was [[Plebiscite of Veneto of 1866|annexed in 1866]] after the [[Third Italian War of Independence]].<ref>Royal Decree 4 November 1866 no. 3300 and Law 18 July 1867 no. 3841</ref> Regarding the battle of Solferino, it was during this conflict that [[Henry Dunant]] took the initiative to create the [[Red Cross]]. After the annexation of Mantua, Lombardy achieved its present-day territorial shape by adding the [[Oltrepò Pavese]], formerly the southern part of the [[Province of Novara]], to the [[Province of Pavia]].