What year was the Vienna Congress?

1814 – 1815 is the period of the Vienna Congress. The aim of the congress was the relative restoration of European order after the Napoleonic Wars and, importantly, after the French Revolution.

Participants: all European countries, except Turkey.

Thanks to the Vienna Congress, a new European order was consolidated. Particular attention was paid to the policy of preserving European monarchies and preventing revolutions.

Another result was the creation of the so-called Sacred Union, headed by the Russian emperor.