Events Date 1815 | History by KabAstro

Library of Congress

Jan 30 Burned US Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes

3rd US President and Founding Father Thomas Jefferson

Feb 3 World's first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
Feb 6 New Jersey issues 1st US railroad charter (John Stevens)
Feb 13 The Cambridge Union Society is founded.

Treaty of Ghent Ratified

Feb 17 Treaty of Ghent ratified by the US Senate and signed by President James Madison ending War of 1812, over a month after it was signed in Europe

The signing of the Treaty of Ghent on Christmas Eve

Napoleon Leaves Elba

Feb 26 Napoléon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France

Mar 1 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
Mar 2 Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King
Mar 3 US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute
Mar 16 Willem I proclaimed King of the Netherlands, including Belgium
Mar 20 Napoléon Bonaparte enters Paris after his escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
Mar 24 Handel & Haydn Society of Boston founded

Eruption of Mount Tambora

Apr 5 Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies, has its first violent eruption after several centuries of dormancy

The massive Mount Tambora volcanic eruption

Apr 6 British prison guards shoot disorderly American POWs, killing seven and injuring between 31 and 60 in the Dartmoor Massacre [1]
Apr 10 Austria declares war on Kingdom of Naples
Apr 10 Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people, causes global volcanic winter
May 3 Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats King Joachim of Naples
May 16 The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath in the upper Blue Mountains
May 24 English surveyor George Evans is the first European to discover the Lachlan River, Australia
Jun 1 Napoleon Bonaparte swears fidelity to the Constitution of France
Jun 8 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
Jun 9 End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set
Jun 16 Battle at Quatre-Bras: Duke of Wellington's English forces engage the French in a preliminary battle two days before the Battle of Waterloo
Jun 16 French army under Napoleon defeats Prussia in the Battle of Ligny, Napoleon's last military victory
Jun 17 American frigate USS Guerriere captained by Stephen Decatur captures Algerian frigate Mashouda, killing its famous captain corsair Raïs Hamidou during US-Algerian War

Battle of Waterloo

Jun 18 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon Bonaparte and France defeated by British forces under Duke of Wellington and Prussian troops under Field Marshall von Blücher

'Wellington at Waterloo', by Robert Alexander Hillingford, depicting Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, during the final confrontation against Napoleon

Jun 22 After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates for the second time, in favor of his son Napoleon II
Jun 30 US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates

Event of Interest

Jul 9 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord takes office as the first Prime Minister of France

Event of Interest

Jul 9 King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France

Jul 15 1st flat horse race held at English race track Cheltenham on Nottingham Hill
Jul 15 Napoleon surrenders to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort after his earlier defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
Aug 6 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli
Aug 9 Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helena on board British ship the Northumberland
Sep 21 King Willem I takes oath in Brussels
Sep 26 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord resigns as Prime Minister of France
Sep 26 Russia, Prussia and Austria sign the Holy Alliance
Sep 28 Joachim Murats fleet sails from Corsica to Naples
Sep 29 Dutch King William I forms the Dutch Order of the Lion, oldest and highest civilian order of chivalry in the Netherlands
Oct 8 Joachim Murat's French forces land at Pizzo, Italy
Oct 12 Ex-king Joachim Murat of Naples sentenced to death
Oct 15 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile
Oct 31 Cornishman Sir Humphry Davy patents miner's safety lamp
Nov 20 Russia, Prussia, Austria and England sign an Alliance "for the maintenance of peace in Europe" on the same day as the Treaty of Paris
Nov 20 Second Treaty of Paris: France and her allies agree France will pay indemnities after Battle of Waterloo, ending the Napoleonic Wars
Nov 27 Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland
Nov 27 City of Kraków (Poland) declared a free republic state by the Congress of Vienna
Dec 5 Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.

Barber of Seville Commissioned

Dec 15 Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (24) gets commission from Teatro Argentina to write his opera "Almaviva", later known as "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville)