Savoy had technically been subsumed into the…
November 1792 CE
Savoy had technically been subsumed into the Kingdom of Sicily in 1714, as a consequence of the War of the Spanish Succession, then (after that island was traded to Austria for Sardinia) the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1720.
While the heads of the House of Savoy are known as the Kings of Sardinia, Turin has remained their capital.
When Victor Amadeus came to the throne in 1773, he had started working on bureaucratic and military aspects of the reign.
Suspicious of anything innovative, he has, however, implemented several public works as well as paying a great deal of attention to his administration and armed forces.
He has approved and set up two new important cultural state institutions on the advice of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy alike.
He has started works of improvements in the port of Nice, and has had dams in the Arce and the road of the Côte built.
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Victor Amadeus III had allowed his two sons-in-law, the Counts of Artois, Provence and the Princesses Marie Adélaïde and Victoire, to stay in his kingdom under his protection.
A few months after he declares war on revolutionary France in 1792, Revolutionary French forces march to Savoy to "bring freedom" to its people as part of the French Revolution.
A decree annexing it to France is signed on November 27 of the same year, and it becomes the 85th département of France, renamed as the Mont Blanc département.