London Conference of 1832

At the London Conference in May 1832 advised the UK, France and Russia, which had declared on 3 February 1830 London Protocol, the establishment of the state of Greece, and thus decided the Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire on the further development after Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state, was killed in October 1831.

Invited to the conference, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. It was agreed to make the state as an independent kingdom. Its northern boundary should run along the so-called Arta - Volos line. The crown was offered to the Bavarian Prince Otto of Wittelsbach, without regard to any Greek claims upon the resignation of the Belgian king Leopold I.. Edition was that there should be no union of the kingdoms of Greece and Bavaria.

The Ottoman Empire was resigned to the loss of territory to the sum of 40 million piasters.