Wiener Kongress

• When was Wiener Kongress?

  18.09.14 to 09.06.15
• Purpose?

  Reorganisation after napoleonic wars
• Participants?

  Representatives of European powers including Russia, Prussia, GB, FR, AUS
• Goals?

  Restoration balanced power, peace, prevent future conflicts
• Results?

  Established Dt. Bund, Formation Heiligen Allianz, Restoration monarch. Herrschaft in many European countries
• Auswirkungen?

  Grundstein European Staatenordnung until World War 1
• The Congress of Vienna officially begins

  September 1814
• Congress of Vienna


  Representatives from various European powers gather to negotiate peace terms following the Napoleonic Wars
• Deliberations and negotiations take place among the representatives to address territorial, political, and social issues across Europe


  October 1814 - February 1815
• Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on Elba and returns to France, sparking the Hundred Days, a brief period of renewed conflict in Europe


  March 1815
• Napoleon's forces are defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, effectively ending the Hundred Days and leading to his second abdication


  June 1815
• Final negotiations and agreements are reached at the Congress of Vienna to finalize the terms of peace and establish a new European order


  June 1815
• Final Act of the Congress of Vienna is signed, officially ending the Congress and solidifying the agreements reached

  9th June 1815
• Implementation of the decisions made at the Congress of Vienna


  1. Redrawing of borders

  2. Establishment of new political entities such as the German Confederation

  3. Restoration of monarchies
• The diplomatic and political framework established at the Congress of Vienna largely maintains peace in Europe, although tensions and conflicts arise periodically leading up to World War I