1815 in the United Kingdom

none September 2026 1815 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1815 English cricket season thumb|18 June: Battle of Waterloo Events from the year 1815 in the United Kingdom. 1815 marks the end of years of war between the United Kingdom and France when the 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 Monarch – George III Regent – George, Prince Regent Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory) Foreign Secretary – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Home Secretary – Lord Sidmouth Secretary of War – Lord Bathurst Events January to June thumb|The British Empire at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 thumb|Twelfth Night by George Cruikshank, a caricature of Lord Castlereagh dividing up Europe between the great powers at the Congress of Vienna. 2 January Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke at Seaham, County Durham. The Prince Regent divides the Order of the Bath into three classes: the Knights Grand Cross, Knights Commander and Companions.The Every Day Book of History and Chronology https://archive.org/details/everydaybookhis00munsgoog D. Appleton & Co Joel Munsell 1858 13 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. 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;Court-Martial on Sir J. Murray The Star London 8724 1815-02-17 3 he will be the most senior officer so to appear until 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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/empireseapower_timeline_noflash.shtml British History Timeline, BBC History 2007-09-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20070922191910/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/empireseapower_timeline_noflash.shtml 22 September 2007 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, repatriating wounded troops to Britain from 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.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820 Icons, a portrait of England 1800–1820 2007-09-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20071017042835/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1800-1820 17 October 2007 thumb|200px|right|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 21 June – News of the victory at Waterloo reaches London from Broadstairs late that evening.17028 1213 22 June 1815 July to December 10 July – Apothecaries Act prohibits unlicensed medical practitioners.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 247–248 0-7126-5616-2 15 July – Napoleon boards Bellerophon 1786 6 off Rochefort and surrenders to Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland of the Royal Navy. 24 July–4 August – Bellerophon 1786 6 anchors off the south Devon coast with Napoleon on board prior to his being taken into exile.David Cordingly 2003 The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon – the biography of a ship of the line, 1782–1836 https://archive.org/details/billyruffianbell0000cord registration Bloomsbury London 0-7475-6537-6 31 July – The 1815 Philadelphia train accident, a boiler explosion, kills at least 13 people in County Durham. 1 August – William Smith publishes the first national geological map of the UK, A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland.V. A. Eyles Eyles, Joan M. On the different issues of the first geological map of England and Wales http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/933403_751304857_739366957.pdf Annals of Science 3 1938 2 190–212 31 August 2010 10.1080/00033793800200871 18 October – The Bible Christian Church, a Wesleyan Methodist denomination, is founded by William O'Bryan in north Devon and Cornwall. 3 November – Sir Humphry Davy announces his invention of the Davy lamp as a coal mining safety lamp.To a meeting of the Royal Society in Newcastle upon Tyne. 5 November – Ionian Islands become a British protectorate. Undated Jones, Watts and Doulton begin life as a stoneware pottery in South London. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack retrospectively recognises statistics for first-class cricket in England from this year. Publications Jane Austen's novel Emma (anonymous; 23 December, dated 1816). Lord Byron's poems with musical settings Hebrew Melodies, including "She Walks in Beauty"; sells over 10,000 copies in a few months. Thomas Love Peacock's first novel Headlong Hall (anonymous; dated 1816).Peacock, Thomas Love 21 21–22 Richard Garnett Richard Garnett (writer) Walter Scott's historical novel Guy Mannering ("By the author of Waverley"; 24 February). 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)Hartley Cathy A Historical Dictionary of British Women 2003 Psychology Press 9781857432282 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=pDtEe4FKolUC&pg=PA1 en 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: Sir Alexander Gordon, staff officer (born 1786) Sir Thomas Picton, general (born 1758) Sir William Ponsonby, general (born 1772) 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 1815 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1815 by country Category:1815 in Europe Category:1810s in the United Kingdom