1.   Negotiations in the middle years of the eighteenth century clarified the frontier between the Habsburg lands and the Venetian republic.

2.   Built in the waning days of the Venetian republic, La Fenice is closely linked to the history of opera.

3.   Proclaiming an independent Venetian republic, they first hijacked a ferry and used it to bring a homemade armored vehicle to the square.

4.   Proclaiming an independent Venetian republic, they took over the tower and drove the vehicle into the square after hijacking a ferry.

5.   They proclaimed the independence of a Venetian republic, focusing national attention on discontent in northern Italy and the separatist movement it has nurtured.