Diplomatic timeline for 1815

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The major plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Vienna
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Joaquim Lobo Silveira, 7th Count of Oriola
Antonio de Saldanha da Gama, Count of Porto Santo
Count Carl Lowenhielm
Jean-Louis-Paul-Francois, 5th Duke of Noailles
Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich
Andre Dupin
Count Karl Robert Nesselrode
Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Count of Palmela
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Emmerich Joseph, Duke of Dalberg
Baron Johann von Wessenberg
Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky
Charles Stewart, 1st Baron Stewart
Pedro Gomez Labrador, Marquis of Labrador
Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty
Wacken (Recorder)
Friedrich von Gentz (Congress Secretary)
Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt
William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart
Prince Karl August von Hardenberg
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
Count Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg Congress of Vienna.PNG
The major plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Vienna

Diplomatic timeline for 1815

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Time line

Diplomatic timeline for 1815: [1] [2]

Some other significant proclamations and declarations

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Two dates. Julian and Gregorian (see differences between Julian and Gregorian dates).
  2. See also: Act for the acceptance of the Sovereignty of the Belgic Provinces, by his Royal Highness, signed at the Hague, July 21, 1814.
  3. "[On his return to France in 1815 Napoleon,] well aware of the approaching storm, sought to diminish its violence by pacific overtures, and one of his first acts on ascending the throne of France was to address a letter [in French], in his own hand writing, to the Sovereigns of Europe, announcing his restoration to the imperial throne, and expressive of his sincere desire for peace". [4]
  1. Brown, Cobb & Williams 1834, p. 128.
  2. Hansard 1816, pp. 71–72.
  3. Great Britain. Foreign Office 1838, p. 193.
  4. Baines 1818, p. 436.

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