Nineteenth Century
Europe
15 September-20 October
1815-1840
political and diplomatic history

course outline
1815-1840--political and diplomatic
1815-1850--economic, social & intellectual
1848-1870--Italy
1850-1871--Germany
1815-1914--Imperialism
1870-1914--the long fuse

key questions for today’s session
why were the statesmen of this era able to
avoid a major war?
how much of the Vienna settlement endured?
how did the Congress system work? fail?
why were the eastern powers so different
from the western?
how did the Germanies fit into this pattern?
how did Britain keep up her “splendid
isolation”?

Serment du jeu de paume
tennis court oath
20 June 1789

14 juilet 1789

18 Brumaire 1799

Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon crowns himself Emperor, 1804

Trafalgar, 21 October 1805

Austerlitz, 2 December 1805

Eylau, 1807

Retreat from Moscow, December 1812

Waterloo, 18 June 1815

course outline
1815-1840--political and diplomatic
1815-1850--economic, social & intellectual
1848-1870--Italy
1850-1871--Germany
1815-1914--Imperialism
1870-1914--the long fuse

key questions for today’s session
why were the statesmen of this era able to
avoid a major war?
how much of the Vienna settlement endured?
how did the Congress system work? fail?
why were the eastern powers so different
from the western?
how did the Germanies fit into this pattern?
how did Britain keep up her “splendid
isolation”?

Tsar Alexander I

Feodor Dostoyevsky

Mikhail Petrashevsky

key questions for today’s session
why were the statesmen of this era able to
avoid a major war?
how much of the Vienna settlement endured?
how did the Congress system work? fail?
why were the eastern powers so different
from the western?
how did the Germanies fit into this pattern?
how did Britain keep up her “splendid
isolation”?

Tsar Nicholas I

Vati Jahn

Wartburgzug 1817

Ludwig I of Bavaria

Lola Montez

course outline
1815-1840--political and diplomatic
1815-1850--economic, social & intellectual
1848-1870--Italy
1850-1871--Germany
1815-1914--Imperialism
1870-1914--the long fuse

key questions for today’s session
why were the statesmen of this era able to
avoid a major war?
how much of the Vienna settlement endured?
how did the Congress system work? fail?
why were the eastern powers so different
from the western?
how did the Germanies fit into this pattern?
how did Britain keep up her “splendid
isolation”?

Louis XVIII (1814-1824)

Charles X (1824-1830)

Louis Philippe (1830-1848)

George IV (regent 1810-1820; king 1820-1830)

William IV (1830-1837)

Victoria, age 18, is informed
of her new status

Victoria (1837-1901)

the Duke of Wellington

Sir Robert Peel

course outline
1815-1840--political and diplomatic
1815-1850--economic, social & intellectual
1848-1870--Italy
1850-1871--Germany
1815-1914--Imperialism
1870-1914--the long fuse

key questions for today’s session
why were the statesmen of this era able to
avoid a major war?
how much of the Vienna settlement endured?
how did the Congress system work? fail?
why were the eastern powers so different
from the western?
how did the Germanies fit into this pattern?
how did Britain keep up her “splendid
isolation”?

course outline
1815-1840--political and diplomatic
1815-1850--economic, social & intellectual
1848-1870--Italy
1850-1871--Germany
1815-1914--Imperialism
1870-1914--the long fuse

key questions for today’s session
why were the statesmen of this era able to
avoid a major war?
how much of the Vienna settlement endured?
how did the Congress system work? fail?
why were the eastern powers so different
from the western?
how did the Germanies fit into this pattern?
how did Britain keep up her “splendid
isolation”?