1815
year
1815 (MDCCCXV) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1780s 1790s 1800s – 1810s – 1820s 1830s 1840s |
| Years: | 1812 1813 1814 – 1815 – 1816 1817 1818 |
| 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 | 甲戌年 (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年 |
| 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 |
Events
change- Fresnel developed the theory of light diffraction.
- Napoleon loses the Battle of Waterloo and is sent to Saint Helena.
Births
change- January 10 – John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
- February 15 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar (d. 1874)
- April 1 – Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (d. 1898)
- April 1 – Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (d. 1880)
- April 6 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
- April 24 – Anthony Trollope, British writer (d. 1882)
- June 11 - Julia Margaret Cameron, British Indian photographer (d. 1879)
- August 5 – Edward John Eyre, explorer
- October 16 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
- October 31 – Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (d. 1897)
- November 2 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
- December 10 – Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer (d. 1852)
- November 12 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
- December 21 – Thomas Couture, French painter (d. 1879)
Deaths
change- January 8 – Edward Pakenham, British general (killed in battle) (born 1778)
- January 16 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (born 1765)
- February 24 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (born 1765)
- February 26 – Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (born 1737)
- March 4 – Frances Abington, English actress (born 1737)
- March 5 – Franz Mesmer, German developer of hypnotism (born 1734)
- April 21 – Joseph Winston, American patriot and Congressman from North Carolina (born 1746)
- June 1 – Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (born 1753)
- June 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick, German noble and general (killed in battle) (born 1771)
- June 18 – Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (born 1758)
- June 18 – Claude-Etienne Michel, French general (killed in battle) (born 1772)
- June 18 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (killed in battle) (born 1766)
- August 2 – Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (murdered) (born 1763)
- August 6 – James A. Bayard (elder), U.S. Senator from Delaware (born 1767)
- September 9 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (born 1738)
- September 20 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (born 1725)
- October 13 – Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (executed) (born 1767)
- December 3 – John Carroll (priest), first American Roman Catholic Archbishop (born 1735)
- December 7 – Michel Ney, French marshal (executed) (born 1769)
- December 29 – Saartjie Baartman, sideshow performer