Major Events
- Jan 30 Burned US Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes
- Feb 26 Napoléon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France
- Mar 20 Napoléon Bonaparte enters Paris after his escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
- 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
- Jun 9 End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set
- 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
- Sep 26 Russia, Prussia and Austria sign the Holy Alliance
- Oct 15 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile
- Nov 20 Second Treaty of Paris: France and her allies agree France will pay indemnities after Battle of Waterloo, ending the Napoleonic Wars
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Articles About 1815
Eruption of Mount Tambora
The massive Mount Tambora volcanic eruptionApril 10
Battle of Waterloo
'Wellington at Waterloo', by Robert Alexander Hillingford, depicting Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, during the final confrontation against NapoleonJune 18
Grace Darling, the Lighthouse Heroine
Raging seas were no deterrent when lighthouse-keeper’s daughter Grace Darling determinedly set out in a rowing boat to rescue survivors of a shipwreck.November 24
Famous Weddings in 1815
- Jan 2 Leading Romantic poet Lord Byron (27) marries Anne Isabella Milbanke (22) by special licence, at Seaham Hall in County Durham
Franz Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
James Madison
Louis XVIII
Napoléon Bonaparte
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