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The most relevant agreements are best treated in four parts. [1] 1809. The treaty of October 14, 1809 (also known as the Treaty of Schönbrunn), in the context of the napoleonic wars , followed the French victory over Austria at wagram three months earlier. It required the habsburg empire to pay an indemnity and make a number of territorial concessions, as well as to recognize the legitimacy of napoleon i's previous conquests and of his brother's appointment as king of Spain (see bonaparte joseph ). [2] 1815. Two agreements were made in 1815 that can be most helpfully assessed within the wider framework of the vienna congress . The first, dated March 25, was the response of Austria, Britain, Prussia, and Russia to Napoleon's return from his first exile to Elba (see hundred days ). It committed them to maintaining against him an Allied force of some 150,000 troops. The second, dated June 9, encompassed the various decisions that comprised the Final Act of the Congress itself. [3] 1864. The treaty of October 30, 1864 was imposed by Austria and Prussia upon Denmark after they had defeated the latter in a war relating to the schleswig-holstein question . It required the Danish monarchy to cede both provinces to joint Austro-Prussian control – an arrangement that those two powers further adjusted between themselves through the Convention of gastein the following August. ... log in or subscribe to read full text