Congress of Vienna

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1814–1815 · Vienna · Europe · Politics

Napoleon's victors redraw the map of Europe for decades

From September 1814 to June 1815 the European powers, led by Metternich, Alexander I, Castlereagh and Talleyrand, negotiated the post-war order. The Congress restored monarchies, created the German Confederation and a Kingdom of Poland under the Russian emperor, and founded the “Concert of Europe” that kept the continent from a general war until 1914.

State: Austrian Empire

Wikipedia (English) · 19th century

Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)

Eastern Europe & Russia

1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 2 years earlier

Middle East

1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 14 years later
1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 25 years later
1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 25 years later

Africa

1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 16 years earlier
1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — 10 years earlier
1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 9 years earlier
c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 21 years later

Asia

1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 1 year later
1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 3 years later
1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 5 years later
c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 17 years later
1839–1842 First Opium War — 25 years later

Americas

1803 Louisiana Purchase — 11 years earlier
1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — 4 years earlier
1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — 3 years later
1822 Independence of Brazil — 8 years later
1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — 21 years later

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