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The national boundaries within Europe agreed upon by the Congress of Vienna Frontispiece of the Acts of the Congress of Vienna. The Congress of Vienna [a] of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. [1]
Negotiations at the Congress of Vienna. The Concert of Europe began with the 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna, which was designed to bring together the "major powers" of the time in order to stabilize the geopolitics of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon in 1813–1814, and contain France's power after the war following the French Revolution. [16]
The scope of this article begins in 1815, after a round of negotiations about European borders and spheres of influence were agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna. [3] The Congress of Vienna was a nine-month, pan-European meeting of statesmen who met to settle the many issues arising from the destabilising impact of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the ...
The Secret Treaty of Vienna was a defensive alliance signed on 3 January 1815 by France, the Austrian Empire and Great Britain.It took place during the Congress of Vienna, negotiations on the future of Europe following Napoleon's defeat in the War of the Sixth Coalition.
The Kingdom of Hanover (German: Königreich Hannover) was established in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic era. It succeeded the former Electorate of Hanover, [2] and joined 38 other sovereign states in the German Confederation in June 1815.
Anna Barker's latest piece on European history.
The Congress of Vienna (1814–1815) dissolved the Napoleonic Wars and attempted to restore the monarchies Napoleon had overthrown, ushering in an era of reaction. [6] Under the leadership of Klemens von Metternich , the prime minister of Austria (1809–1848), and Lord Castlereagh , the foreign minister of Great Britain (1812–1822), the ...
Portrait by Vicente López, c. 1833, National Art Museum of Catalonia (Spain). Pedro Gómez Labrador, 1st Marquess of Labrador (Valencia de Alcántara, November 30, 1764 – Paris, June 17, 1850) was a Spanish diplomat who served as Spain's representative at the Congress of Vienna (1814–1815).