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People: Emperor Liu SongWu of
Topic: Concert of Europe
Location: Yi Nei Mongol Zizhiqu (Inner Mongolia) China

Concert of Europe

Years: 1815 - 1849

The Concert of Europe, also known as the Congress System or the Vienna System after the Congress of Vienna, is a system of dispute resolution adopted by the major conservative powers of Europe to maintain their power, oppose revolutionary movements, weaken the forces of nationalism, and uphold the balance of power.

Historians date its operation from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the late 1840s, although some see it playing a role until the Crimean War (1853–1856).


“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only to avoid them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask."

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)