The Concert of Europe was a general agreement between the great powers of 19th-century Europe to maintain the European balance of power, political boundaries, and spheres of influence. Never a perfect
Portrait of Prince Metternich by Thomas Lawrence. Prince Metternich, Austrian chancellor and foreign minister, as well as an influential leader in the Concert of Europe
The Declaration of Victory After the Battle of Leipzig by Johann Peter Krafft, 1839. Alexander I of Russia, Francis I of Austria and Frederick William III of Prussia after the Battle of Leipzig, 1813
The Entry of Emperor Francis I into Vienna After the Peace of Paris by Johann Peter Krafft.
Negotiations at the Congress of Vienna
This article covers worldwide diplomacy and, more generally, the international relations of the great powers from 1814 to 1919. This era covers the period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the C
Bismarck manipulates the three emperors – Alexander III of Russia, William I of Germany and Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary – like a ventriloquist's puppets; John Tenniel 1884 PUNCH.
General Simón Bolívar, (1783–1830), a leader of independence in Latin America
Allied victory at Navarino (1827)