Congress of Vienna
A pan-European conference chaired by the Austrian foreign minister Metternich drew Europe’s new borders after the fall of Napoleon and restored many deposed dynasties to power.
- Date
- September 1814 – 9 June 1815start: month known; end: exact date · duration: ≈ 9 months
- Place
- Viennatoday: Vienna, Austria · Western and Central Europe
- Participants
- Austrian Empire, Russian Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Prussia, Alexander I, Klemens von Metternich, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
- Threads
- French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
Representatives of almost every European state gathered in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815; the main decisions were taken by Russia, Great Britain, Austria and Prussia, while France was represented by Talleyrand. Russia received the central and eastern parts of the Duchy of Warsaw; Prussia gained Swedish Pomerania, a large part of Saxony and the western part of the duchy; Austria obtained extensive possessions in northern Italy; and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands was created.
The Final Act was signed on 9 June 1815, nine days before Waterloo. Some historians reproach the congress for suppressing national and liberal movements; others credit it with almost a century without a general European war.
Connections
Causes and preconditions
- Napoleon’s abdication and exile to Elba6 April – between 3 May and 4 May 1814 · Western and Central EuropeThe remaking of Europe after Napoleon’s fall
Consequences
- Holy Alliance14 (26) September 1815 · Western and Central Europe
Related events
- Battle of Blaauwberg and the capture of the Cape Colony8–18 January 1806 · Africathe postwar settlement of 1814–1815 left the Cape Colony to Britain
- Slave Trade Act 180725 March 1807 · Western and Central Europeat Britain’s insistence, the Congress of Vienna condemned the slave trade
- Hundred Days20 March – 8 July 1815 · Western and Central EuropeNapoleon’s return caught the congress in the midst of its work
Same participants
- Peninsular War2 May 1808 – 17 April 1814 · Western and Central Europevia Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
- War of 181218 June 1812 – 17 February 1815 · North Americavia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Battle of Paris18 (30) March 1814 – 19 (31) March 1814 · Western and Central Europevia Alexander I
- Battle of Waterloo18 June 1815 · Western and Central Europevia Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Same place
- Marcomannic Wars166–180 · Western and Central Europe
- Siege of Vienna (1529)27 September – 15 October 1529 · Western and Central Europe
- Premiere of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony7 April 1805 · Western and Central Europe
- Battle of Wagram5–6 July 1809 · Western and Central Europe
Adjacent events in the thread
- Napoleon’s return from Elba26 February – 20 March 1815 · Western and Central Europe
Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within 5 years of this event
Eastern Europe
- Battle of the Berezina14 (26) November 1812 – 17 (29) November 1812
- French invasion of Russia24 June – 14 December 1812
- Fire of Moscow (1812)2 (14) September 1812 – 6 (18) September 1812
- Battle of Borodino26 August (7 September) 1812
Balkans and Anatolia
- Treaty of Bucharest16 (28) May 1812
- First Serbian Uprising14 February 1804 – 7 October 1813
Middle East and Egypt
- Treaty of Gulistan12 (24) October 1813
Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Eruption of Mount Tambora5–11 April 1815
- British conquest of Java4 August – 18 September 1811
North America
- War of 181218 June 1812 – 17 February 1815
- Year Without a Summer1816
- Founding of Fort RossMarch – 30 August (11 September) 1812
Latin America
- Cry of Dolores16 September 1810
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Congress of Vienna
- Wikipedia (Russian): Венский конгресс
- Schroeder P. W. The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
- Wikidata: Q46362