1815

Events

• February 26 - Emperor Napoleon I of France escapes from exile in Elba, and leaves to return to France.
• March 20 - The Napoleonic Wars reignite when Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) enters Paris, formally marking the commencement of the Hundred Days campaign (Also known as the Bonapartist Restoration and the War of the Seventh Coalition). Louis XVIII and his family flee for their lives.
• June 18 - At the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon I suffers his final defeat at the hands of Arthur Wellesley, the First Duke of Wellington.
• June 22 - Napoleon I abdicates in favor of his four year old son, Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles Bonaparte, with his son becoming Napoleon II. Napoleon II was not recognized as Emperor of the French, and as of a result, Louis XVIII was restored a month later as King of France.
• June 29 - Napoleon I leaves Malmaison in an ultimately futile attempt to flee to the United States of America.
• July 10 - Napoleon I surrenders himself to the British on the HMS Bellerophon. He is transferred on August 7 to the HMS Northumberland for his second and final exile on St. Helena.
• October 15 - Former Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
• November 1- Indigenous Australian Genocide: at Oyster Bay in Tasmania, in reprisal for the attacks on sheep, a detachment of the 48th regiment killed approximately 19 aboriginal warriors.
• 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, after 26 years of turmoil.