1815

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s

Years: 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 - 1815 - 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820

Events

• January 3 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
• January 8 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans
• February 3 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded (Switzerland).
• February 6 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
• February 26 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba
• March 20 - 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.
• March 1 - Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
• March 16 - Willem I becomes King of the Netherlands
• April 12 - Mount Tambora blows its top during an eruption event that started on April 5. 92,000 are killed during this eruption.
• June 18 - Battle of Waterloo ends the Napoleonic wars.
• June 22 - Napoleon abdicates again, restoration of Louis XVIII[?] as King of France
• October - Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1815 in literature:

Births

• January 11 - John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (+ 1891)
• April 1 - Otto von Bismarck, German statesman
• April 24 - Anthony Trollope, British author
• December 21 - Thomas Couture, French painter & teacher

Deaths

• February 24 - Robert Fulton, inventor, perfected the steamboat.
• March 5 - Franz Mesmer, developer of hypnotism