1815 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1815?
- January 8, 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
- January 13, 1815 – War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
- February 6, 1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
- February 26, 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
- March 1, 1815 – Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
- March 2, 1815 – Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the King of Sri Lanka.
- March 16, 1815 – Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
- March 20, 1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.
- April 10, 1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth’s climate for the next two years.
- April 23, 1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising – a second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
- May 3, 1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
- May 30, 1815 – The East Indiaman ship Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
- June 1, 1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
- June 9, 1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set.
- June 16, 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
- July 9, 1815 – Talleyrand becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
- July 15, 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
- August 24, 1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
- November 27, 1815 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
- December 11, 1815 – the U.S. Senate created a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
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