66.1 Congress of Vienna 1814, Post Napoleonic War Period

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

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Summary

The Congress of Vienna 1814 at the end of the long Napoleonic Wars led to a period of relative peace on the continent of Europe. A network of institutions was established known as the ‘Concert of Europe’ where differences could be thrashed out before leading to war.

After the French Revolution, the basis of sovereignty shifted from individuals and families as leaders to nations and states. Throughout Europe a generation of individuals from the educated elite took the lead in developing movements of national liberation and liberal reform. But for more than thirty years the leaders of the Great Powers of the continent successfully managed to suppress these movements and clamped down on any signs of internal unrest or revolution

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to a history of Europe Key Battles podcast.
0:30.9	This is the Revolution of 1848, part one of four.
1:16.8	Music 1848, Part Congress of Vienna, which concluded the Napoleonic Wars.
1:25.5	After two decades of warfare stemming from the French Revolution, Europe was exhausted and divided.
1:33.5	Monarchs heads of state, diplomats and the social elite from across Europe assembled in the Austrian capital.
1:42.4	With the carnage of war heavy on their minds, they strive to hammer out a settlement which could deliver lasting international peace.
1:45.0	Music was ever present in Vienna over the long months of diplomatic wrangling, a universal
1:50.3	language for the various nationalities and social classes.
1:55.3	Both the privileged and the non-privileged lined up to take in the lengthy oratorio Sampson by George Friedrich Handel.
2:05.2	They then watched Ludwig van Beethoven personally conduct his seventh symphony
2:10.1	and several other pieces, including The Glorious Moment, a cantata created to celebrate the Congress.
2:23.0	Thank you. moment, a cantata created to celebrate the Congress. And on the dance floors of Vienna, the wildly popular Pollynees style was enjoyed by all.
2:31.1	After nine months of torturous negotiations, a new order emerged.
2:36.9	The Austrians lost their part of the Netherlands, which went to the Dutch, but regained
2:42.0	all their other territories and established control over Lombardi and Venetia in northern Italy,
2:47.4	as well as a substantial part of the Dalmatian coastline.
2:52.1	Austria was also given the chair of the body representing the member states of a new German confederation.
2:59.9	This is much the same borders as the old Holy Women Empire, but consisted of 39 states instead of more than a thousand.
3:10.5	The Prussians gained territory in the Rhineland, including the Rua Valley, whose industrial
3:16.4	resources would later provide a major boost for the new owner's economic and military power.
3:24.0	He was part of a series of buffer states stretching from the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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