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1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
1815 - Events.
January 2 - Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, Seaham, County Durham.
January 3 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
January 8 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans
February 3 - The first commercial cheese factor ...
1815 in rail transport - February events.
February 6 - The first railroad charter in the United States is issued to the New Jersey Railroad Company, a railroad that ultimately was never built.
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1810s - Events and Trends.
End of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe (1803 - 1815).
The North American War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The war lasted until the beginning of 1815.
The Luddites (1811 - 1816) in Britain were machine-wreckers, protesting against machines perceived as taking their jobs.
The Spanish colony of New Granada declares independence as the Republic of Gran Colombia under President Simón Bolívar (1819 - 18 ...
See also: 1815 in music, other events of 1816, 1817 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
1816 in music - Events.
Louise Reichardt becomes the first woman conductor when she takes charge of a performance of work by Handel in Lubeck.
Carl Maria von Weber is appointed Kappellmeister at Dresden.
1816 in music - Classical music.
Requiem in C-minor - Luigi Cherubini
Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen - Franz Schubert
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1800s - Events and Trends.
Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815).
Semaphore is adopted by navies.
United Kingdom founded in 1801
1800s - World Leaders.
Emperor Napoleon I (France)
Emperor Francis II (Holy Roman Empire)
Pope Pius VII
Emperor Alexander I (Russia)
King Charles IV (Spain)
King George III, (United Kingdom)
President John Adams (United States)
President Thomas ...
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1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
1816 - Events.
Known as the "Year Without A Summer" or "Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death" in the northern hemisphere due to global cooling caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that had occurred in 1815.
20 February - Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, wi ...
December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining.
December 7 - Events.
1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1776 - Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general.
1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1815 - Michel Ney, Marshal of France, is executed by firing squad, after havin ...
April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). There are 265 days remaining.
April 10 - Events.
1741 - Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz
1815 - Mount Tambora eruption covers several islands with ash in Indonesia.
1816 - The U.S. government approved the creation of a Second Bank of the United States.
1865 - American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General R ...
The 19th century lasted from 1801 to 1900 in the Gregorian calendar (using the Common Era system of year numbering).
Historians sometimes define a "Nineteenth Century" historical era stretching from 1815 (The Congress of Vienna) to 1914 (The outbreak of the First World War); alternatively, Eric Hobsbawm defined the "Long Nineteenth Century" as spanning the years 1789 to 1914.
During this century, the Spanish, Portuguese, and Ottoman empires began to crumble and the Holy Roman and Mughal empires ceased.
Following t ...
William Dennison, Jr. (November 23, 1815 – June 15, 1882) was a Whig and Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 24th Governor of Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Dennison graduated from Miami University, studied law, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1840. A canny businessman, he led the Exchange Bank and the Columbus and Xenia Railroad, and organized the Hocking Valley Railroad, while becoming active in politics.
Dennison was one of the first major Ohio politicians to leave the dying Whig Party for the new Repub ...
A volcanic winter is the reduction in temperature caused by volcanic ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the sun, usually after a volcanic eruption.
Volcanic winter - Effects on life.
The causes of the bottleneck phenomenon, i.e. a sharp decrease in a species' population immediately followed by a period of great genetic divergence (differentiation) among survivors - might be attributed to volcanic winters. According to anthropologist Stanley Ambrose, such events diminish the population size to "leve ...
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12 February — The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.
May 28 — The planet Venus pa ...
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January 8 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
June 17 - French troops ...
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February 4 - Court Jew Joseph Suss Oppenheimer is executed in Württenberg
April 15 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian ope ...
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1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
1753 - Events.
January 1 - Britain and its colonies adopt the idea that 1st January sh ...
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1767 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
1767 - Events.
The Burmese army captures the Thai capital of Ayutthaya, and destroys ...
The Year Without a Summer, also known as the Poverty Year and Eighteen hundred and froze to death was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities destroyed crops in Northern Europe and the American Northeast.
It is now generally thought that the aberrations occurred because of the April 5–15, 1815 volcanic eruptions of Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies (in today's Indonesia) which ejected over a million and a half metric tons of dust into the upper atmosphere. A ...
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1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
1805 - Events.
January 11 - Michigan Territory is created.
February 15 - Harmony Society officially formed
March 1 - Justice Samuel Chase acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate
April 27 - United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "Shores of Tripoli" ...
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1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
1806 - Events.
January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony
January 10 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British
January 19 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope
February 6 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - see:Action of 6 February 1806
March 23 - After t ...
