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Congress of Vienna

When did the Congress of Vienna take place?

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Watercolor etching by August Friedrich Andreas Campe showing diplomats and military officers in ornate uniforms gathered around a large table with maps at the Congress of Vienna. — Congress of Vienna The Congress of Vienna, watercolor etching by August Friedrich Andreas Campe; in the collection of the State Borodino War and History Museum, Moscow.

The Congress of Vienna took place from September 1814 to June 1815. This assembly was convened to reorganize Europe following the Napoleonic Wars, with its Final Act being completed shortly before the Battle of Waterloo.1