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Hobsbawm - The Age of Revolution (1789-1848)
99 - After 20 years of the Napoleonic wars, there was peace. Between 1815 and 1914 (WWI), no great powers in Europe went to war
101 - After haggling between the English and French, England chose the King of Belgium (formerly: Austrian Netherlands) after the 1830 revolution that separated it from the Netherlands.
103 - Western German states were generally well-disposed toward being Napoleonic sattelites. The British were not pleased about this.
106 - Britain emerged as only industrial power and largest navy after 1815.