By the time of Emperor Napoleon’s final defeat and following the Congress of Vienna of 1815, the whole of Europe had began a new phase of its history known as the ‘Restoration’.
In 1816, the Bourbon rule of the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily were amalgamated to form the new Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Thus King Ferdinando IV of Naples and Sicily became King Ferdinando I of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In 1816, the Bourbon rule of the kingdom of Naples and the kingdom of Sicily were amalgamated to form the new Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Thus King Ferdinando IV of Naples and Sicily became King Ferdinando I of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
King Ferdinando achieved the restoration of absolutism and lived in peace until his death in 1825.