1815 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1815?
- January 3, 1815 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
- 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.
- January 15, 1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
- February 6, 1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
- 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.
- 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 16, 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
- June 18, 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
- 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.
- October 15, 1815 – Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
- November 27, 1815 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
- December 5, 1815 – Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
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