Important Historical Events of the year 1815, Year 1815 in History

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Date	Event
January 3, 1815	Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
January 8, 1815	War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
January 13, 1815	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, 1815	War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
February 26, 1815	Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the island of Elba.
March 1, 1815	Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
March 2, 1815	Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the leaders of the Kingdom of Kandy.
March 9, 1815	Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
March 16, 1815	Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
March 20, 1815	After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
March 30, 1815	Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
April 10, 1815	The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.
April 23, 1815	The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
May 3, 1815	Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
May 30, 1815	The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
June 1, 1815	Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
June 9, 1815	End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
June 16, 1815	Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
June 18, 1815	Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
July 9, 1815	Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
July 15, 1815	Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
August 24, 1815	The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
October 15, 1815	Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
November 20, 1815	The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by troops of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia for several more years.
November 27, 1815	Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
December 11, 1815	The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
December 23, 1815	The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.
December 25, 1815	The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.