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1815 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar

1815
MDCCCXV

Ab urbe condita

2568

Armenian calendar

1264
ԹՎ ՌՄԿԴ

Assyrian calendar

6565

Balinese saka calendar

1736–1737

Bengali calendar

1222

Berber calendar

2765

British Regnal year

55 Geo. 3 – 56 Geo. 3

Buddhist calendar

2359

Burmese calendar

1177

Byzantine calendar

7323–7324

Chinese calendar

甲戌 (Wood Dog)
4511 or 4451
    — to —
乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
4512 or 4452

Coptic calendar

1531–1532

Discordian calendar

2981

Ethiopian calendar

1807–1808

Hebrew calendar

5575–5576

Hindu calendars

 - Vikram Samvat

1871–1872

 - Shaka Samvat

1736–1737

 - Kali Yuga

4915–4916

Holocene calendar

11815

Igbo calendar

815–816

Iranian calendar

1193–1194

Islamic calendar

1230–1231

Japanese calendar

Bunka 12
(文化12年)

Javanese calendar

1741–1742

Julian calendar

Gregorian minus 12 days

Korean calendar

4148

Minguo calendar

97 before ROC
民前97

Nanakshahi calendar

347

Thai solar calendar

2357–2358

Tibetan calendar

阳木狗年
(male Wood-Dog)
1941 or 1560 or 788
    — to —
阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
1942 or 1561 or 789

 

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February 26Napoleon Bonaparteescapes from Elba

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.

Contents

·       1Events

o   1.1January–March

o   1.2April–June

o   1.3July–September

o   1.4October–December

o   1.5Date unknown

·       2Births

o   2.1January–June

o   2.2July–December

·       3Deaths

o   3.1January–June

o   3.2July–December

·       4References

Events[edit]

January–March[edit]

·       January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in SeahamCounty DurhamEngland.

·       January 3 – AustriaBritain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.

·       January 8 – War of 1812 – Battle of New Orleans: American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat an invading British force in the last major battle of the war (ironically, the Battle of New Orleans was fought after the Commissioners had signed the Treaty of Ghent, on 24 December 1814, which would be ratified in February 1815; thus, this battle had no impact on the outcome of the war).

·       January 13 - War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.

·       January 15 – War of 1812 – Capture of USS President: American frigate USS President (1800), commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is forced to surrender to a squadron of four British frigates.

·       February – The Hartford Convention arrives in Washington, D.C.

·       February 3 – The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland.

·       February 4 – The first Dutch student association, the Groninger Studentencorps Vindicat atque Polit, is founded in the Netherlands. The first rector of the senate is B. J. Winter.

·       February 6 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.

·       February 17 – The Spanish reconquest of Latin America begins.

·       February 18 – The War of 1812 between the United States the United Kingdom (including Canada) officially ends, following ratification of the Treaty of Ghent (1814) in Washington, D.C..

·       February 26 – Napoleonic WarsNapoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.

·       March 1

·       Napoleonic WarsNapoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.

·       Georgetown University's congressional charter is signed into law, by President James Madison.

·       March 15 – Joachim MuratKing 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 218 – 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 WarsNapoleon 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[edit]

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June 9: The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna is signed.

·       April 512 – Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies blows its top explosively during an eruption, killing upwards of 92,000, and propelling thousands of tons of aerosols (Sulfide gas compounds) into the upper atmosphere (stratosphere). The high level gases reflect sunlight, and cause the widespread cooling (known as a volcanic winter) and heavy rains of 1816, causes snows in June and July in the northern hemisphere, widespread crop failures, and subsequently famine, which is why 1816 is later known as the Year Without a Summer.

·       April 21 – 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 TakovoOttoman Serbia. By the end of the year Serbia is acknowledged as a semi-independent state; the ideals of the First Serbian Uprising have thus been temporarily achieved.

·       May 3 – Battle of TolentinoAustria defeats the Kingdom of Naples, which quickly ends the Neapolitan WarJoachim Murat, the defeated King of Naples, is forced to flee to Corsica, and is later executed.

·       May 30 – The Arniston, an East Indiaman ship repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa, with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board.

·       June 9 – The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna is signed: A new European political situation is set. The German Confederation and Congress Poland are created, and the neutrality of Switzerland is guaranteed. Also, Luxembourgdeclares independence from the French Empire.

·       June 15 – The Duchess of Richmond's ball is held in Brussels, "the most famous ball in history".[1][2]

·       June 16

·       Napoleonic Wars – Battle of LignyNapoleon defeats a Prussian army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

·       Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Quatre Bras: Marshal Ney wins a strategic victory over an Anglo-Dutch force.

·       June 18 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of WaterlooArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher decisively defeat Napoleon.

·       June 22 – Napoleonic WarsNapoleon abdicates again; Napoleon II (1811–1832), age 4, rules for two weeks (22 June to 7 July).

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June 18Battle of Waterloo

·       June 26 – Napoleonic Wars: Wellington's advancing Allied Army takes Péronne, Somme on its way to Paris.

July–September[edit]

·       July 8 – Napoleonic WarsLouis XVIII returns to Paris, and is 'restored' as King of France (he had declared himself king on 8 June 1795, at the death of his nephew, 10-year-old Louis XVII, and had lived in Westphalia, Verona, Russia, and England).

·       July 15 – Napoleonic WarsNapoleon boards HMS Bellerophon off Rochefort, and surrenders to Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland of the Royal Navy.

·       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." [3]

·       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. [4]

·       September 23 – The Great September Gale of 1815 is the first hurricane to strike New England in 180 years.

·       September 26 – Austria, Prussia and Russia sign a Holy Alliance, to uphold the European status quo[5]

October–December[edit]

·       October – Robert Adams, American sailor and the first Westerner to visit Timbuktu, is found wandering the streets of London, starving and half-naked, leading to the invitation for him to tell his story as a Barbary captive, which is later published as The Narrative of Robert Adams.[6]

·       October 3 – The Chassigny Martian meteorite falls in Chassigny, Haute-Marne, France.

·       October 15 – Napoleonic WarsNapoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.

·       November 3 – Sir Humphry Davy announces his invention, the Davy lamp (a coal mining safety lamp),[7][8]

·       November 5 – The Ionian Islands become a British protectorate,[9] the United States of the Ionian Islands.

·       November 20 – The Napoleonic Wars come to an end after 12 years, with the British government restoring the status quo of France, prior to when the French Revolution began in 1789.

·       November 27 – The Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland is signed, creating Congress Poland, a constitutional monarchy in personal union with the Russian Empire, under terms agreed at the Congress of Vienna.

·       December 7 – Marshal Ney is executed in Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg.

·       December 23 – The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.

·       December 25 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance, in Boston.[10]

Date unknown[edit]

·       The first full-blooded European native born in New Zealand, Thomas King, is born in the Bay of Islands.

·       The second wave of Amish immigration to North America begins.

·       In the United Kingdom, use of the pillory is limited to punishment for perjury.

·       The Spanish Empire is expelled from Veracruz.[citation needed]

·       Wisden Cricketers' Almanack retrospectively recognises statistics for first-class cricket in England from this year.

Births[edit]

January–June[edit]

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John A. Macdonald

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Otto von Bismarck

·       January 11 – John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, Father of Confederation (d. 1891)

·       January 16 – Henry Halleck, American general (d. 1872)

·       January 21 – Horace Wells, American dentist, anesthesia pioneer (d. 1848)

·       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)

·       April 1

·       Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (d. 1898)

·       Edward ClarkGovernor of Texas (d. 1880)

·       April 6 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)

·       April 24 – Anthony Trollope, English author (d. 1882)

·       May 11 – Richard Ansdell, English painter, engraver (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)

July–December[edit]

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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)

·       October 16 – Francis LubbockGovernor 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)

·       November 2 – George Boole, English mathematician, philosopher (d. 1864)

·       November 5 – Luís Carlos Martins Pena, Brazilian playwright (d. 1848)

·       November 12 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)

·       November 20 – Maria Cederschiöld, Swedish deaconess (d. 1892)

·       December 2 – Juan Javier Espinosa, 9th President of Ecuador (d. 1870)

·       December 8 – Adolph Menzel, German artist, painter (d. 1905)

·       December 10 – Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of 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)

Deaths[edit]

January–June[edit]

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Emma, Lady Hamilton

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William Howe De Lancey

·       January 8 – Edward Pakenham, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1778)

·       January 16 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, politically active English courtesan, lover of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765)

·       February 9 – Ellen Hutchins, Irish botanist (b. 1785)

·       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, 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):

·       Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, French general (b. 1775)

·       Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)

·       Sir Alexander Gordon, British staff officer (b. 1786)

·       Claude-Étienne Michel, French general (b. 1772)

·       Sir Thomas Picton, British general (b. 1758)

·       Sir William Ponsonby, British general (b. 1772)

·       Jean Baptiste van Merlen, Dutch-Belgian general (b. 1773)

·       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[edit]

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John Singleton Copley

·       August 2 – Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune, French marshal (murdered) (b. 1763)

·       August 6 – James A. Bayard (elder), U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)

·       September 9 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)

·       September 13 – Mihály Gáber, Slovene writer in Hungary (b. 1753)

·       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 FletcherMethodist preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)

·       December 29 – Saartjie Baartman, South African sideshow performer

References[edit]

1.     ^ Longford, Elizabeth. "194". In Hastings, MaxThe Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes. pp. 230&ndash, 234.

2.     ^ Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). "15 June". Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature. London: Icon. pp. 228–9. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.

3.     ^ Charles Jean Tristan, Count Montholon, History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helen (E. Ferrett & Company, 1846) p83

4.     ^ Andrew Roberts, Napoleon and Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo- and the Great Commanders who Fought it (Simon and Schuster, 2001) p199

5.     ^ Tim Chapman, The Congress of Vienna 1814-1815 (Routledge, 2006) p60

6.     ^ Adams, Charles Hansford (2005). The Narrative of Robert Adams: A Barbary Captive. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. x.

7.     ^ To a meeting of the Royal Society in Newcastle upon Tyne.

8.     ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1800-1820". icons.org.uk. Archived from the original on October 16, 2009. Retrieved 2007-09-11.

9.     ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 247–248. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

10.   ^ Johnson, H. Earle (1986). "Handel and Haydn Society". In Hitchcock, H. Wiley; Sadie, Stanley. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. II. London: Macmillan Press. p. 318. ISBN 0-943818-36-2.