What happened in 1815?

Battle of Waterloo

Major Events · Waterloo, Belgium

Napoleon Bonaparte is decisively defeated, ending his rule as Emperor of the French.

Battle of New Orleans

Wars & Conflicts

Battle of the War of 1812

Battle of Ligny

Wars & Conflicts · Ligny

1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition

Second Barbary War

Wars & Conflicts · Mediterranean Sea

1815 war between Algiers and the United States

Battle of Quatre Bras

Wars & Conflicts · Quatre Bras

1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition

Neapolitan War

Wars & Conflicts · Italy

1815 conflict of the Napoleonic Wars

Battle of Tolentino

Wars & Conflicts · Tolentino

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Battle of Wavre

Wars & Conflicts · Wavre

1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition

Battle of Sipe-Sipe

Wars & Conflicts · Cochabamba Department

1815 battle in Upper Peru, South America

Battle of Rocquencourt

Wars & Conflicts · Rocquencourt

1815 battle

Battle of Carpi

Wars & Conflicts

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Battle of the Panaro

Wars & Conflicts · Castelfranco Emilia

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Battle of Occhiobello

Wars & Conflicts · Occhiobello

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Battle of Rocheserviere

Wars & Conflicts · Rocheservière

Battle between Vendéan Royalists, who had remained loyal to King Louis XVIII during the Hundred Days, and Napoleon's Army of the West

Battle of La Suffel

Wars & Conflicts · Souffelweyersheim

1815 battle

Battle of Issy

Wars & Conflicts · Issy-les-Moulineaux

1815 Napoleonic Wars battle

Battle of Ronco

Wars & Conflicts · Forlì

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Battle of Scapezzano

Wars & Conflicts · Senigallia

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Battle of Casaglia

Wars & Conflicts · Ferrara

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Battle of San Germano

Wars & Conflicts · Cassino

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Battle of Ljubić

Wars & Conflicts · Ljubić

1815 battle of the Serbian Revolution

Battle of Castel di Sangro

Wars & Conflicts · Castel di Sangro

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Battle of Cesenatico

Wars & Conflicts · Cesenatico

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Battle of Pesaro

Wars & Conflicts · Pesaro

1815 battle during the Neapolitan War

Siege of Gaeta

Wars & Conflicts · Gaeta

1815 siege during the Neapolitan War

Battle of El Roble

Wars & Conflicts

1813 battle of the Chilean War of Independence

Spanish Siege of Cartagena de Indias

Wars & Conflicts · Cartagena

1815 siege

Siege of Ancona

Wars & Conflicts · Ancona

1815 siege during the Neapolitan War

Battle of the Palo River

Wars & Conflicts · Caloto

1815 battle

Battle of Jaithak

Wars & Conflicts

1815 battle of the Anglo-Nepalese War

Battle of Redon

Wars & Conflicts · Redon

1815 battle

Siege of Fort St. Philip

Wars & Conflicts · Fort St. Philip

Battle in the War of 1812

Battle of Fort Peter

Wars & Conflicts · St. Marys

War of 1812 battle

Battle of Massa

Wars & Conflicts · Massa

Battle of the Neapolitan War

Battle off Cape Gata

Wars & Conflicts · Cape Gata

1815 naval battle

Battle of Cape Palos

Wars & Conflicts · Cape Palos

1815 naval battle of the Second Barbary War

Fort Drummond

Wars & Conflicts

fort located on the west end of Drummond Island on Whitney Bay, in the vicinity of De Tour Village, Michigan, United States

Waterloo Campaign

Wars & Conflicts · Belgium

1815 military campaign during Napoleon's Hundred Days

Ottoman invasion of Mani

Wars & Conflicts · Skoutari

1815 invasion

Congress of Vienna

Politics & Government

Conference of ambassadors of European states (September/November 1814 to June 1815)

Treaty of Paris

Politics & Government

1815 treaty to close the napoleonoc wars

Kandyan Convention

Politics & Government · Temple of the Tooth

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Treaty of Nicolls' Outpost

Politics & Government · Nicolls' Outpost

Treaty between Great Britain and refugee Native Americans

Robert Fulton died

People · New York City

American engineer and inventor (1765–1815)

Carsten Niebuhr died

People · Meldorf

German mathematician, botanist, cartographer and explorer in Danish service (1733–1815)

Dalai Lama 09 Lungtok Gyatso died

People · Potala Palace

Died in Potala Palace. 9th Dalai Lama (1805-1815).

Franz Anton Mesmer died

People · Meersburg

German physician

Luis Alejandro Berthier died

People · Bamberg

Marshal and Vice-Constable of France (1753-1815)

Jan Potocki died

People · Uladivka

Polish nobleman, writer (creating in French), traveler, politician and historian (1761-1815)

Smithson Tennant died

People · Boulogne-sur-Mer

British chemist (1761-1815)

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann died

People · Brunswick

German scientist and zoologist

Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira died

People · Lisbon

Naturalist and explorer in Brazil (1756-1815)

José de Córdoba y Ramos died

People · Cádiz

Spanish sailor

Emma, Lady Hamilton died

People · Calais

Mistress of Lord Nelson (1765-1815)

William Nicholson died

People · Bloomsbury

British chemist (1753-1815)

Belsazar Hacquet died

People · Vienna

Naturalist (1739-1815)

Thomas Bugge died

People · Copenhagen

Danish astronomer (1740-1815)

Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils died

People · Paris

French chemist

Adolph Ferdinand Gehlen died

People · Munich

German chemist (1775-1815)

Pietro Cossali died

People · Padua

Italian mathematician (1748-1815)

Carlos Amarante died

People · Porto

Carlos amarante foi engenheiro

Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden died

People · Miszkowice

German engineer (1752-1815)

Louis Michel Thibault died

People · Picquigny

French architect (1750-1815)

Marsilio Landriani died

People · Vienna

Italian chemist, physicist and meteorologist (1751-1815)

Jonathan Hornblower died

People · Penryn

Steam power pioneer

Jonathan Williams died

People · Philadelphia

American politician

Francis Wollaston died

People · London

English astronomer

Thomas Smith died

People · Edinburgh

Scottish businessman and early lighthouse engineer (1752-1815)

John Henslow died

People · Kent

Surveyor of the Navy

Vincent Yves Boutin died

People · Syria

French explorer

Squire Boone died

People · Mauckport

American frontiersman

Bernard Boudin de Tromelin died

People · Lyon

French Navy officer

Jakub Jan Ryba died

People · Rožmitál pod Třemšínem

Czech teacher and composer on the break of classicism and romantism

Frances Abington died

People · London

Stage actress

Mlle Raucourt died

People · Paris

French actress

Friederike Bethmann died

People · Berlin

German actor, singer and opera singer (1760-1815)

Giuseppe Gherardeschi died

People · Pistoia

Italian organist and composer

Josefa Butteau died

People · Prague

Stage actor and ballet dancer

Henry Siddons died

People · Edinburgh

British actor

Caroline Kummerfeld died

People · Weimar

German stage actor

Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller died

People · Vienna

German actor (1738-1815)

Franz Götz died

People · Kroměříž

Composer and musician from Bohemia

Otto von Bismarck born

People · Schönhausen (Elbe)

Born in Schönhausen (Elbe). German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898).

Ada Lovelace born

People · London

Born in London. English mathematician (1815–1852).

Elizabeth Cady Stanton born

People · Johnstown

Born in Johnstown. American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist (1815–1902).

John A. Macdonald born

People · Glasgow

Born in Glasgow. 1st prime minister of Canada from 1867 to 1873 and 1878 to 1891.

Otto of Greece born

People · Mirabell Palace

Born in Mirabell Palace. King of Greece from 1832 to 1862 (1815–1867).

Anthony Trollope born

People · London

Born in London. English novelist of the Victorian period (1815-1882).

Ľudovít Štúr born

People · Uhrovec

Born in Uhrovec. Slovak poet, philosopher, linguist, publicist, politician and writer (1815–1856).

George Meade born

People · Cádiz

Born in Cádiz. United States Army general and civil engineer (1815–1872).

Emanuel Geibel born

People · Lübeck

Born in Lübeck. German poet and playwright (1815–1884).

Louis Jules Trochu born

People · Le Palais

Born in Le Palais. French general, President of the National Defence Council (1815-1896).

Seru Epenisa Cakobau born

People · Nairai

Born in Nairai. King of Fiji (1815–1883).

Johann Jakob Bachofen born

People · Basel

Born in Basel. Swiss jurist and philologist (1815–1887).

Charles Bernard Renouvier born

People · Montpellier

Born in Montpellier. French philosopher.

Rafael Carrera born

People · Guatemala City

Born in Guatemala City. President of Guatemala (1815-1865).

Henry Halleck born

People · Oneida County

Born in Oneida County. Union Army general (1815–1872).

Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina born

People · Moliterno

Born in Moliterno. Italian journalist, writer and patriot (1815-1890).

Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos born

People · Istanbul

Born in Istanbul. Greek historian and university professor (1815–1891).

Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué born

People · Quimperlé

Born in Quimperlé. French writer (1815–1895).

Raffaele Cadorna born

People · Milan

Born in Milan. Italian general (1815-1897).

Ang Mey born

People · Cambodia

Born in Cambodia. Queen regnant of Cambodia.

Solomon II of Imereti died

People · Trabzon

Died in Trabzon. King of Imereti (western Georgia).

Cvi Jehošua ha-Levi Horowitz died

People · Prostějov

Died in Prostějov. Rabbi.

Military Academy of Modena

Science & Technology

Italian military school in Modena (1815–)

Russian Rurik Expedition

Science & Technology · Easter Island

Russian expedition and circumnavigation (1815-1818)

Alnwick Infirmary

Science & Technology

Hospital in England

TU Wien

Science & Technology

University of technology in Vienna, Austria

Philae obelisk

Exploration & Discovery · Kingston Lacy

Obelisk found at Philae, Egypt

Chassigny

Exploration & Discovery

Meteorite and namesake of the Chassignite group

Schäffer affair

Exploration & Discovery · Hawaiian Islands

Failed Russian attempt to seize Hawaii

Croswell-Parsons Paper Mill Ruin

Exploration & Discovery

archaeological site in New Baltimore, United States of America

Blue Mosque, Qazan

Religion & Belief Systems · İske Bistä

Mosque in İske Bistä microdistrict, Waxitof City District, Qazan, Tatarstan

Mosque in Keturiasdešimt Totorių

Religion & Belief Systems

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Cathedral

Religion & Belief Systems · Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

Cathedral in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine

Holy Trinity Orthodox church in Nizhny Novgorod (Vysokovo)

Religion & Belief Systems

Temple, Eastern Orthodox church building, architectural landmark in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Synagogue in Kępno

Religion & Belief Systems

Synagogue

Mollajalilli mosque

Religion & Belief Systems

33 Józefa Street in Kraków

Religion & Belief Systems

Cathedral of Guatemala City

Religion & Belief Systems

Metropolitan cathedral in Guatemala City

St. George's Cathedral

Religion & Belief Systems

Cathedral in Chennai, India

Pateros Church

Religion & Belief Systems

Roman Catholic parish church in Pateros, Metro Manila, Philippines

Changhua City Tzu-Tung Temple

Religion & Belief Systems

Temple of Lord Chifu (Chí Fǔ Wang-Yeh) and Shitou Gong (Duke of Stone) in Changhua City, Taiwan

Saint Nicholas chapel (Konevsky Monastery)

Religion & Belief Systems

Orthodox chapel in Konevets, Russia

Westminster Hall and Burying Ground

Religion & Belief Systems

graveyard and former church in Baltimore, Maryland

St. Florian

Religion & Belief Systems

Chapel in Oberaudorf, Germany

Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Joy of All Who Sorrow (Sharapovo)

Religion & Belief Systems

Eastern Orthodox church building in Chekhovsky District, Russia

Wayside cross in Dolní Vítkov

Religion & Belief Systems

Former Rectory

Religion & Belief Systems

Church residential building in Gansingen in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland

Royal Doulton

Economy & Trade · Stoke-on-Trent

British ceramics manufacturing company

Scottish Widows

Economy & Trade · Edinburgh

Life insurance and pensions company located in Edinburgh

Banque Bonhôte

Economy & Trade · Neuchâtel

Swiss Private bank

Elkington & Co.

Economy & Trade · Birmingham

UK business

CN Group

Economy & Trade · Carlisle

English news media company

Stoneware & Co.

Economy & Trade · Louisville

Pottery business in Louisville, Kentucky, United States

MacFarlan Smith

Economy & Trade · Gorgie

Scottish pharmaceutical research company

Van Lier

Economy & Trade · Loon op Zand

Dutch shoe manufacturer

Clyde Shipping Company

Economy & Trade · Glasgow

Shipping company

Thomas Whitehead and Brothers

Economy & Trade · Rawtenstall

UK company

N. Corah & Sons

Economy & Trade · Leicester

Leicester hosiery and textiles company

1815 eruption of Mount Tambora

Disasters & Pandemics · Tambora

Catastrophic volcanic eruption in present-day Indonesia

Unification of Italy

Social Movements & Revolutions · Italy

Creation of the politically and administratively integrated nation of Italy (1815–1871)

Slachter's Nek Rebellion

Social Movements & Revolutions · Cape Colony

1815 Boer uprising east of Cape Colony

Takovo Meeting

Social Movements & Revolutions · Church of Saint George in Takovo

1815 gathering of Serbian leaders

Chapelle expiatoire

Architecture & Engineering · Paris

Chapel located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France

Basilica of St Dominic

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Valletta

Basilica of the Nativity of Our Lady, Xagħra

Architecture & Engineering

Church

Gyland Church

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Flekkefjord, Southern Norway

Harg Church

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Östhammar Municipality, Sweden

St. John's Church, Philadelphia

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Philadelphia, United States of America

St John's Church, Threapwood

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Threapwood, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK

Armadale Castle

Architecture & Engineering

Country house Sleat, Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK

Chenxiang Pavilion

Architecture & Engineering

Building in Chenxiang Pavilion, China

Tomb of Timur Shah Durrani

Architecture & Engineering

Monument in Kabul, Afghanistan

La Fuentecilla

Architecture & Engineering

Cultural property in Madrid, Spain

Dormition of the Virgin Mary

Architecture & Engineering · Agiasos

Church building in Agiasos, Lesvos, Greece

Armenian Church of the Holy Resurrection

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Russia

Delphi Baptist Church

Architecture & Engineering

church building in New York, United States of America

Church Nuestra Señora de la Asunción of Cayey

Architecture & Engineering

Roman Catholic church in Cayey, Puerto Rico

Phoenix

Architecture & Engineering

shipwreck in Lake Champlain

Luxembourg founded

Empires & Countries · Luxembourg

Luxembourg was founded, with its capital at Luxembourg.

Kingdom of the Netherlands founded

Empires & Countries · Amsterdam

Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded, with its capital at Amsterdam.

First French Empire dissolved

Empires & Countries · Paris

First French Empire ceased to exist, having been centered at Paris.

Duchy of Warsaw dissolved

Empires & Countries · Warsaw

Duchy of Warsaw ceased to exist, having been centered at Warsaw.

Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia founded

Empires & Countries · Milan

Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia was founded, with its capital at Milan.

United Kingdom of the Netherlands founded

Empires & Countries · Brussels

United Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded, with its capital at Brussels.

Bourbon Restoration in France founded

Empires & Countries · Paris

Bourbon Restoration in France was founded, with its capital at Paris.

Free City of Kraków founded

Empires & Countries · Kraków

Free City of Kraków was founded, with its capital at Kraków.

Principality of Serbia founded

Empires & Countries · Kragujevac

Principality of Serbia was founded, with its capital at Kragujevac.

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin founded

Empires & Countries · Schwerin

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was founded, with its capital at Schwerin.

Duchy of Brunswick founded

Empires & Countries · Brunswick

Duchy of Brunswick was founded, with its capital at Brunswick.

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz founded

Empires & Countries · Neustrelitz

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was founded, with its capital at Neustrelitz.

United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves founded

Empires & Countries · Lisbon

United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was founded, with its capital at Lisbon.

United States of the Ionian Islands founded

Empires & Countries · Corfu

United States of the Ionian Islands was founded, with its capital at Corfu.

Swedish Pomerania dissolved

Empires & Countries · Szczecin

Swedish Pomerania ceased to exist, having been centered at Szczecin.

Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel dissolved

Empires & Countries · Brunswick

Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ceased to exist, having been centered at Brunswick.

Kingdom of Kandy dissolved

Empires & Countries · Kandy

Kingdom of Kandy ceased to exist, having been centered at Kandy.

Kingdom of Naples dissolved

Empires & Countries · Naples

Kingdom of Naples ceased to exist, having been centered at Naples.

Duchy of Głogów dissolved

Empires & Countries · Głogów

Duchy of Głogów ceased to exist, having been centered at Głogów.

Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands dissolved

Empires & Countries · Amsterdam

Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands ceased to exist, having been centered at Amsterdam.

League Federal founded

Empires & Countries · Montevideo

League Federal was founded, with its capital at Montevideo.

State of Brazil dissolved

Empires & Countries · Rio de Janeiro

State of Brazil ceased to exist, having been centered at Rio de Janeiro.

Republic of Geneva dissolved

Empires & Countries · Geneva

Republic of Geneva ceased to exist, having been centered at Geneva.

Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca dissolved

Empires & Countries · Bogotá

Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca ceased to exist, having been centered at Bogotá.

Canton of Valais founded

Empires & Countries · Sion

Canton of Valais was founded, with its capital at Sion.

Canton of Geneva founded

Empires & Countries · Geneva

Canton of Geneva was founded, with its capital at Geneva.

German Confederation founded

Empires & Countries · Free City of Frankfurt

German Confederation was founded, with its capital at Free City of Frankfurt.

Duchy of Lucca founded

Empires & Countries · Lucca

Duchy of Lucca was founded, with its capital at Lucca.

Dhami (state) founded

Empires & Countries

Dhami (state) was founded.