Congress of Vienna

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In 1818, only a few years after the Congress of Vienna convened to stabilize Europe’s political order, Shelley’s “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus” imagined a near future in which “men with a will to power would exploit science in a quest to learn the secrets of life and to play God,” as Mr. McDougall summarizes.

From The Wall Street Journal

While the 1815 Congress of Vienna was an ephemeral gathering of two dozen diplomats whose influence faded within a decade, the United Nations and its 193 member states have, for nearly 75 years, sustained 44,000 permanent staff to supervise global health, human rights, education, law, labor, gender relations, development, food, culture, peacekeeping and refugees.

From Salon

Those three powers — Spain, Britain and the United States — consciously tried to reorder their worlds for, they hoped, generations to come through formal agreements — the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the San Francisco conference that drafted the U.N. charter in 1945.

From Salon

In it, he recounted the tale of how the two great statesmen of the early 19th century, Austrian Chancellor Klemens von Metternich and British Foreign Secretary Viscount Castlereagh, carved out a new European order at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 after the end of the Napoleonic wars—an order that kept the peace for 100 years.

From Slate

Switzerland nation has not fought in an international war since 1815, when it adopted neutrality at the Congress of Vienna which ended the French Revolutionary Wars.

From Reuters