Why was the congress of vienna held?
The Congress of Vienna was an international conference that was called in order to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon I. Many territorial decisions had to be made in the conference that was held in Vienna, Austria, from September 1814 to June 1815. The main goal of the conference was to create a balance of power that would preserve the peace. * France was deprived of all territory conquered by Napoleon * The Dutch Republic was united with the Austrian Netherlands to form a single kingdom of the Netherlands under the House of Orange. * Norway and Sweden were joined under a single ruler * Switzerland was declared neutral * Russia got Finland and effective control over the new kingdom of Poland * Prussia was given much of Saxony and important parts of Westphalia and the Rhine Province. * Austria was given back most of the territory it had lost and was also given land in Germany and Italy (Lombardia and Venice) * Britain got several strategic colonial territories, and they also g
