1815 (MDCCCXV ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar , the 1815th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 815th year of the 2nd millennium , the 15th year of the 19th century , and the 6th year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1815, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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June 18 : Napoleon defeated by Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo , bringing an end to the "Hundred Days " crisis after Napoleon's escape from Elba.
June 19 : Congress of Vienna redraws boundaries of the European nations.
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February 26 : Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba .
March
March 1
March 13 – Participants at the Congress of Vienna declare Napoleon an outlaw following his escape from Elba [2]
March 15 – Joachim Murat , King of Naples , declares war on Austria in an attempt to save his throne, starting the Neapolitan War .
March 16 – William I becomes King of the Netherlands .
March 2 – 18 – Sri Vikrama Rajasinha of Kandy , the last king in Ceylon, is deposed under the terms of the Kandyan Convention , which results in Ceylon becoming a British colony .
March 20 – Napoleonic Wars : Napoleon enters Paris, after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his Hundred Days rule.
April
June 9 : The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna is signed.
Twelfth Night . Caricature of the Congress of Vienna by George Cruikshank .
April 10 – Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies blows its top explosively during its peak eruption , killing more than 92,000 people during week of activity from April 5 to April 12. The blast propels thousands of tons of aerosols (Sulfide gas compounds) into the stratosphere , and the high level gases reflect sunlight, causing widespread cooling from a volcanic winter . During 1816 , heavy rains fall arounde the world, snow falls in June and July in the Northern Hemisphere , crops fail and widespread famine occurs. In later years, 1816 will become known as the Year Without a Summer .
April 21 – In India, the eastern part of the former Garhwal Kingdom is joined with Kumaon division , under the administration of the British Raj .
April 24 – The Second Serbian Uprising against Ottoman rule takes place in Takovo , Ottoman Serbia . By the end of the year Serbia is acknowledged as a semi-independent state, temporarily achieving the ideals of the First Serbian Uprising .
August
August 2 – Napoleonic Wars : Representatives of the United Kingdom, Austria, Russia and Prussia sign a convention at Paris, declaring that Napoleon Bonaparte is "their prisoner" and that "His safe keeping is entrusted to the British Government." [5]
August 7 – Napoleonic Wars : Napoleon is transferred to HMS Northumberland , to begin his forced and final second exile, on the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.[6]
January– June
Edward Clark
January 11 – John A. Macdonald , 1st Prime Minister of Canada, Father of Confederation (d. 1891 )
January 15 – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann , German photographer (d. 1901 )
January 16 – Henry Halleck , American general (d. 1872 )
January 21 – Horace Wells , American dentist, anesthesia pioneer (d. 1848 )
February 2 – Mathilde Esch , Austrian genre painter (d. 1904 )
February 3 – Edward James Roye , 5th President of Liberia (d. 1872 )[13]
February 10 – Constantin Bosianu , 4th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1882 )
February 15 – Constantin von Tischendorf , German Biblical scholar (d. 1874 )
March 9 – David Davis , American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1886 )
March 11 – Anna Bochkoltz , German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (d. 1879 )
March 12 – Louis-Jules Trochu , French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (d. 1896 )
April 1
April 6 – Robert Volkmann , German composer (d. 1883 )
April 24 – Anthony Trollope , English novelist (d. 1882 )[14]
May 11 – Richard Ansdell , English painter and engraver (d. 1885 )
May 19 – Thomas Thornycroft , English sculptor and engineer (d. 1885 )
May 27 – Sir Henry Parkes , father of the Australian Federation (d. 1896 )
June 18 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen , Bavarian general (d. 1881 )
June 30 – Wilhelm von Ramming , Austrian general (d. 1876 )
July– December
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ada Lovelace
July 26 – Robert Remak , German embryologist, physiologist and neurologist (d. 1865 )
August 5 – Edward John Eyre , English explorer, colonial governor (d. 1901 )
August 16 – Saint John Bosco , Italian priest, educator (d. 1888 )
August 26 – Bernard Jauréguiberry , French admiral and statesman (d. 1887 )
October 16 – Francis Lubbock , Governor of Texas (d. 1905 )
October 23 – João Maurício Vanderlei, Baron of Cotejipe , Brazilian magistrate, politician (d. 1889 )
October 31 – Karl Weierstrass , German mathematician (d. 1897 )
September 12 – Richard S. Rust , American abolitionist (d. 1906 )
November 2 – George Boole , English mathematician, philosopher (d. 1864 )
November 5 – Luís Carlos Martins Pena , Brazilian playwright (d. 1848 )[15]
November 12 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton , American women's rights activist (d. 1902 )
November 20
December 2 – Juan Javier Espinosa , 9th President of Ecuador (d. 1870 )
December 8 – Adolph Menzel , German painter (d. 1905 )
December 10 – Ada Lovelace , English computer pioneer, daughter of Lord Byron (d. 1852 )
December 13 – Pálné Veres , Hungarian educator, women's rights activist (d. 1895 )
December 21 – Thomas Couture , French painter (d. 1879 )
December 30 – Joseph Toynbee , English otologist (d. 1866 )
December 31 – George Meade , American general (d. 1872 )
January– June
Emma, Lady Hamilton
José de Córdoba y Ramos
William Howe De Lancey
January 8 – Edward Pakenham , British general (killed in battle) (b. 1778 )
January 16 – Emma, Lady Hamilton , politically active British courtesan, lover of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765 )
January 24 – Sir Charles Malet, 1st Baronet , British East India Company official (b. 1752 )
February 9 – Ellen Hutchins , Irish botanist (b. 1785 )
February 22 – Smithson Tennant , English chemist, discovered the elements iridium and osmium (b. 1761 )
February 24 – Robert Fulton , American inventor (b. 1765 )
February 26 – Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld , Austrian general (b. 1737 )
March 4 – Frances Abington , English actress (b. 1737 )
March 5 – Franz Mesmer , German developer of animal magnetism (b. 1734 )
April 3 – José de Córdoba y Ramos , Spanish explorer and naval commander (b. 1732 )
April 21 – Joseph Winston , American patriot, Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746 )
May 11 – Aletta Haniel , German business person (b. 1742 )
May 25 – Domenico Puccini , Italian composer (b. 1772 )
June 1 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier , French marshal (b. 1753 )
June 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , German noble, general (killed in battle) (b. 1771 )
June 17 – Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville , French general (b. 1773 )
June 18 (killed at the Battle of Waterloo):
June 26 – William Howe De Lancey , British quartermaster-general (mortally wounded at Waterloo) (b. 1778 )
June 27 – Jean-Baptiste Girard , French general (mortally wounded at Ligny) (b. 1775 )
July– December
John Singleton Copley
July 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden , German pioneer in mining and metallurgy (b. 1752 )
August 2 – Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune , French marshal (murdered) (b. 1763 )
August 6 – James A. Bayard , U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1767 )
August 25 – Stephen Badlam , American artisan and military officer (b. 1751 )[17]
September 9 – John Singleton Copley , American painter (b. 1738 )
September 20 – Nicolas Desmarest , French geologist (b. 1725 )
October 13 – Joachim Murat , French marshal, King of Naples (executed) (b. 1767 )
October 19 – Paolo Mascagni , Italian anatomist (b. 1755 )
October 22 – Claude Lecourbe , French general (b. 1759 )
December 3 – John Carroll , first American Roman Catholic Archbishop (b. 1735 )
December 7 – Michel Ney , French marshal (executed) (b. 1769 )
December 8 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher , English Methodist preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)
December 22 – José María Morelos , leader of Mexican War of Independence , executed (b. 1765)[18]
December 29 – Saartjie Baartman , South African sideshow performer
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