The regiment was formed in 1774 as present to the King of Sardinia's fifteen-year-old son Victor Emmanuel, Duke of Aosta.

The regiment fought in the War of the First Coalition against French forces, until 1796 when Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Royal Sardinian Army in the Montenotte campaign.

In 1964 the regiment was reduced to a squadrons group, which was assigned to the Infantry Division "Mantova" as divisional reconnaissance unit.

In March 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Italy and took command of the French forces, with which he defeated the Royal Sardinian Army in the Montenotte campaign within a month.

On 28 April 1796 King Victor Amadeus III had to sign the Armistice of Cherasco and on 15 May 1796 the Treaty of Paris, which forced Sardinia out of the First Coalition.

On 16 October 1796 Victor Amadeus III died and his eldest son Charles Emmanuel IV ascended the throne.

On 26 October 1796 King Charles Emmanuel IV ordered to disband the two youngest cavalry regiments: "Dragoni del Chiablese" and "Aosta".

[5][6] On 3 November 1831 the Regiment "Aosta Cavalleria" was reformed as a Lancer unit with six squadrons in Vercelli by order of King Charles Albert.

In 1855 the Aosta's 1st Squadron was part of the Sardinian expeditionary corps' Provisional Light Cavalry Regiment, which fought in the Crimean War and distinguished itself on 16 August 1855 in the Battle of the Chernaya.

[5][6][7] During the Second Italian War of Independence the regiment fought at Castelnuovo Scrivia, Montebello, and San Martino.

[1][2][6] After the Italian Army had crossed the Po on 7 July the regiment rapidly advanced northwards reaching Udine on the 25th of the same month.

[5][6] In 1917 the regimental depot in Ferrara formed the 851st Dismounted Machine Gunners Company as reinforcement for infantry units on the front.

After the defeat in the Battle of Caporetto the regiment covered the Italian retreat to the Piave river, fighting rearguard actions at Cividale del Friuli and Fagagna.

After their return to Italy in late spring 1937 the III and IV truck-mounted machine gunners groups were disbanded.

[5][1][6] For the Italian military intervention in the Spanish Civil War the Aosta was ordered to provide a platoon of 64 volunteers.

On 7 April 1939 the Aosta's regimental command and the I Squadrons Group participated in the Italian invasion of Albania.

[1][6] After its return to Italian lines the regiment spent the rest of the war on the defensive until Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht invaded Yugoslavia and Greece.

[5] During the war the regiment's depot in Naples formed the:[6] The VI Machine Gunners Group "Lancieri di Aosta" was sent to Libya for the Western Desert Campaign.

The VI Squadrons Group remained in the North African theater until its remnants surrendered to Allied Forces at the end of the Tunisian Campaign in 1943.

[5] In coming weeks the regiment clashed with German forces at Kalabaka and 100 men raided the Luftwaffe's air field at Larissa.

The Squadrons Group "Lancieri di Aosta" moved from Reggio Emilia to Cervignano del Friuli, where it joined the Infantry Division "Mantova" as divisional reconnaissance unit.

[1][3][5][6] On 7 May 1991 the regiment moved from Cervignano del Friuli to Palermo, where it joined the Motorized Brigade "Aosta".