In history, year 1815 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1815.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 08 january | American forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the British Army at the Battle of New Orleans, two weeks after the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Ghent to end the War of 1812. |
| 13 january | War of 1812-British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys,Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state. |
| 15 january | War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates. |
| 13 february | The Cambridge Union Society, one of the oldest debating societies in the world, was founded at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. |
| 26 february | Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba, an island off the coastof Italy where he had been exiled after the signing of the Treaty ofFontainebleau one year earlier. |
| 10 april | Mount Tambora in Indonesia began one of the most violent volcanic eruption in recorded history, killing at least 71,000 people,and affecting worldwide temperatures for the next two years. |
| 30 may | The East Indiaman ship Arniston was wrecked during a storm atWaenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with theloss of 372 lives. |
| 01 june | Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite. The Charter of 1815, was the French constitution prepared by Benjamin Constant at the request of Napoleon I when he returned from exile on Elba. |
| 09 june | The Congress of Vienna ended, redrawing the political map ofEurope after the defeat of Napoleon. |
| 15 june | Napoleonic Wars-French Marshal Michel Ney earned a strategic victory against the Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Quatre Bras. |
| 15 june | The Duchess of Richmond held a ball in Brussels, Belgium, that was described as 'the most famous ball in history'. |
| 18 june | War of the Seventh Coalition-Napoleon Bonaparte fought andlost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo in present-day Belgium. |
| 15 july | Aboard HMS Bellerophon, Napoleon surrendered to Royal Navy Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland to finally end the Napoleonic Wars. |
| 27 november | As specified by the Congress of Vienna, the Constitution of theKingdom of Poland was signed for the newly recreated Polish state thatwas under Russian control. |
| 07 december | Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squadnear Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon. |
| 25 december | The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, premiered at King's Chapel in Boston. |
| 09 June | Luxembourg became independent from the French occupation. |
| 16 June | Napoleon defeated Prussia at the Battle of Ligni in the Netherlands. |
| 18 June | Napoleon's army defeated Britain in the Battle of Waterloo. |
| 09 July | The first natural gas well was discovered in the US. |
| 20 November | Russia, Prussia, Austria and England allied to maintain peace in Europe. |
| 27 November | The Kingdom of Poland adopted the constitution. |
| 03 February | The first cheese production factory in the world opened in Switzerland. |
| 02 January | Lord Byron married Anne Isabella Milbank in Seahum County Durham. |
| 06 February | New Jersey grants the first American Rail Charter to John Stevens. |
| 16 March | William I became King of the Netherlands. |
| 21 April | The eastern part of the erstwhile Garhwal Empire was annexed to the Kumaon division under the administration of the British Raj. |
| 03 May | Austria defeated Naples King Joachim at the Battle of Tolentino. |
| 15 June | The most famous ball in history, "Richmond Ball " was held at Ressels. |
| 09 July | Charles Maurice the Talleyrand Perigord, Prince of Banvant was elected Prime Minister of France. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 April | Otto von Bismarck / Politician / Germany |
| 01 August | Richard Henry Dana / Politician / United States of America |
| 02 November | George Boole / Philosopher / United Kingdom |
| 02 August | Adolf Friedrich von Schack / Poet / Germany |
| 07 September | John McDouall Stuart / Explorer / Scotland |
| 08 September | Giuseppina Strepponi / Educator / Italy |
| 08 May | Edward Tompkins / Politician / United States of America |
| 10 December | Ada Lovelace / Scientist / United Kingdom |
| 11 October | Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte / Politician / France |
| 12 November | Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Activist / United States of America |
| 15 January | William Bickerton / Religious Leader / United States of America |
| 16 January | Henry Halleck / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 18 June | Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen / General / Germany |
| 18 January | Constantin von Tischendorf / Scholar / Germany |
| 19 June | Cornelius Krieghoff / Painter / Netherlands |
| 25 October | Camillo Sivori / Violinist / Italy |
| 25 November | William Sawyer / Politician / Canada |
| 28 March | Arsène Houssaye / Poet / France |
| 29 October | Dan Emmett / Composer / United States of America |
| 31 December | George Meade / Engineer / United States of America |