9th June 1815: ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna signed, nine days before Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo

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This episode discusses the signing of the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna and its impact on Europe leading up to the First World War.

The Final Act of the Congress set in place a map of Europe that remained largely unchanged for the next forty years, and which laid the foundations for the First World ...

People in this episode

Host: Scott Allsop

Topics covered

• Congress of Vienna
• European history
• Napoleon
• Battle of Waterloo
• 19th century politics

Keywords

• Congress of Vienna
• Final Act
• Napoleon
• Battle of Waterloo
• European map
• 19th century
• history

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