 With the Napoleonic events, Cordenons became an autonomous municipality and after the end of the Republic of Venice, became territory of the Austro-Hungarian empire until 1866 when Cordenons was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy.After the Second World War, Cordenons was invested with the Military Worth Bronze Medal for the support given to the Partisan Resistance.In the contemporary period Cordenons developed paper, silk and cotton industries (the Mako).