1815

Year 1815 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - March

 * - marries Anna Isabella Milbanke,,.
 * -, , and Bourbon-restored form a secret defensive alliance treaty against  and.
 * - arrives in.
 * - The first commercial factory is founded  in
 * -, Foundation of the first Dutch student association, the Groninger Studenten Corps, . The first rector of the senate was B.J. Winters.
 * - grants the first American  charter to a.
 * - escapes from
 * - returns to France from his banishment on.
 * -, declares war on  in an attempt to save his throne, starting the.
 * - becomes
 * - enters  after escaping from  with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000 beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
 * - enters  after escaping from  with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000 beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

April - June

 * - - in the  blows its top during an eruption event. Upwards of 92,000 are killed during this eruption. The event is the cause of  becoming known as the.
 * - against  rule takes place in, . By the end of the year  had been acknowledged as a semi-independent state. Ideals of the  have thus been temporarily achieved.
 * - defeats the  at the decisive  which quickly ends the ., the defeated King of Naples, is forced to flee to  and is later executed.
 * - End of the : new an political situation is set.
 * - ends the.
 * - abdicates again;  (1811-32), age 4, rules for two weeks (June 22 to July 7).

July - September

 * - returns to ; the "restoration" of Louis XVIII as King of France. (He had declared himself king on June 8, 1795, at the death of his nephew, 10-year-old, and had lived in Westphalia, Verona, Russia, and England.)
 * - In, surrenders at  to  forces.
 * - The - the first  to strike New England in 180 years.

October - December

 * - Fall of the Mars meteorite in Chassigny, Haute-Marne, France
 * - begins his exile on  in the.
 * - patents the  for use in

Undated

 * , and  sign a  to uphold the European.
 * British missionaries arrive in
 * In, use of is limited to punishment for
 * Second wave of immigration to North America
 * begins.

Ongoing events

 * (-1815)-Seventh Coalition/
 * (-1815)
 * ( - 1815)

January - June

 * -, first (d. )
 * -, German Biblical scholar (d. )
 * -, German statesman (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, German composer (d. )
 * -, British author (d. )
 * -, Father of Australian Federation (d. )

July - December

 * -, explorer (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, German mathematician (d. )
 * -, English mathematician and philosopher (d. )
 * -, early English computer pioneer (d. )
 * -, American women's rights activist (d. )
 * -, French painter (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, British general (killed in battle) (b. )
 * -, English mistress of (b. )
 * -, American inventor (b. )
 * -, Austrian general (b. )
 * -, English actress (b. )
 * -, German developer of hypnotism (b. )
 * -, American patriot and Congressman from North Carolina (b. )
 * -, French marshal (b. )
 * -, German noble and general (killed in battle) (b. )
 * -, British general (killed in battle) (b. )
 * -, French general (killed in battle) (b.
 * -, French general (killed in battle) (b. )

July - December

 * -, French marshal (murdered) (b. )
 * -, U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. )
 * -, American painter (b. )
 * -, French geologist (b. )
 * -, French marshal and King of Naples (executed) (b. )
 * -, French general (b. )
 * -, first American Roman Catholic Archbishop (b. )
 * -, French marshal (executed) (b. )
 * -, performer


 * See also .