1815 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1815
Wellington at Waterloo by Robert Alexander Hillingford Events from the year 1815 in the United Kingdom Duke of Wellington wins a decisive victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo . Fighting in the War of 1812 between the UK and the United States also ceases, peace terms having been agreed at the end of 1814. The year also sees the introduction of the Corn Laws which protect British land owners from cheaper foreign imports of corn.
Incumbents
Events
January to June
The British Empire at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Twelfth Night George Cruikshank , a caricature of Lord Castlereagh dividing up Europe between the great powers at the Congress of Vienna .2 January
3 January – Austria , Britain and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia .
8 January – War of 1812 : Battle of New Orleans – American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the British in the last major battle of the war.[ 1]
16 January–15 February – Lieutenant-General Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet , MP, is court-martialed and admonished for his conduct before Tarragona in the Peninsular War ;[ 2] 2021 .
13 February – The Cambridge Union Society , one of the oldest debating societies in the world, founded at the University of Cambridge .
15 March – Importation Act, first of the Corn Laws , passed by Parliament, preventing the import of cheap foreign grain.[ 3]
29 March – The Duke of Wellington leaves Vienna , where he has been leading Britain's delegation at the Congress of Vienna , to take command of British and allied army gathering near Brussels
30 May – The East Indiaman Arniston Ceylon , is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans , South Africa with the loss of 372 of the 378 on board.
16 June – Napoleonic Wars : Battle of Quatre Bras – Marshal Ney wins a strategic victory over an Anglo-Dutch force.
18 June – Napoleonic Wars: the Duke of Wellington wins a decisive victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo .[ 4] Scene in Plymouth Sound in August 1815 , by John James Chalon . HMS Bellerophon is at the centre of the picture, surrounded by crowds in small boats who have come to see Napoleon
July to December
Undated
Publications
Births
24 January – Thomas Gee , Welsh publisher (died 1898)
12 February – Edward Forbes , naturalist (died 1854)
24 April – Anthony Trollope , English novelist (died 1882)
11 May – Richard Ansdell , English painter and engraver (died 1885)
19 May – Thomas Thornycroft , English sculptor (died 1885)
5 August – Edward John Eyre , English explorer and colonial governor (died 1901)
23 August – Henry Acland , English physician (died 1900)
2 November – George Boole , English-born mathematician and philosopher (died 1864)
10 December – Ada King, Countess of Lovelace , née Byron, early English computer pioneer (died 1852)
30 December – Joseph Toynbee , English otologist (died 1866)
Deaths
8 January – Sir Edward Pakenham , general (killed in battle) (born 1778)
14 January – William Creech , Scottish publisher and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (born 1745)
15 January – Emma, Lady Hamilton , mistress of Horatio Nelson (born 1765)
24 January – Sir Charles Malet, 1st Baronet , British East India Company official (born 1752)
22 February – Smithson Tennant , chemist (born 1761)
4 March – Frances Abington , actress (born 1737)[ 11]
7 May – Andrew Fuller , Particular Baptist minister, promoter of missionary work (born 1754)
1 June – James Gillray , caricaturist (born 1757)
18 June – Killed at Battle of Waterloo:
26 June – William Howe De Lancey , quartermaster-general (mortally wounded at Waterloo) (born 1778)
25 August – Peter William Baker , politician (born 1756)
8 December – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher , Methodist preacher and philanthropist (born 1739)
9 December – Patrick Miller of Dalswinton , banker and steamboat promoter (born 1730)
29 December – Samuel Henley , clergyman, schoolteacher, college principal, antiquarian, writer and poet (born 1740)
References
^ a b Munsell, Joel (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology 13 . ^ "Court-Martial on Sir J. Murray". The Star . No. 8724. London. 17 February 1815. p. 3. ^ "British History Timeline, BBC History" . Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007 .^ a b "Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820" . Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007 .^ "No. 17028" . The London Gazette ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 247–248. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ Cordingly, David (2003). The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon – the biography of a ship of the line, 1782–1836 ISBN 0-7475-6537-6 ^ Eyles, V. A.; Eyles, Joan M. (1938). "On the different issues of the first geological map of England and Wales" (PDF) . Annals of Science . 3 (2): 190–212. doi :10.1080/00033793800200871 . Retrieved 31 August 2010 . ^ To a meeting of the Royal Society in Newcastle upon Tyne .
^ Garnett, Richard (1911). "Peacock, Thomas Love" Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica ^ Hartley, Cathy (2003). A Historical Dictionary of British Women ISBN 9781857432282
