Events from the year 1815 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Until 20 March: Louis XVIII 20 March – 22 June: Napoleon I 22 June – 7 July: Napoleon II Starting 8 July: Louis XVIII Prime Minister – 9 July – 26 September: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Starting 26 September: Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu
Events 3 January - Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia. 26 February - Napoleon escaped from Elba. 1 March - Napoleon lands at Antibes. 20 March - Napoleon arrives back in Paris, ending the First Restoration of Louis XVIII. 22 April - Constitutional Referendum held. 22 April - Charter of 1815 signed bringing in a new French constitution. 1 May - Explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville marries Adèle Dumont D'Urville (née Pepin) in Toulon. 16 June - Battle of Quatre Bras, inconclusive result. 16 June - Battle of Ligny, French defeat Prussian forces. 18 June - Battle of Waterloo, decisive defeat of French forces. 18 June-19 June - Battle of Wavre, inconclusive result. 24 June - Napoleon announces his abdication. 28 June - Battle of La Suffel, French victory over Austrian forces. 1 July - Battle of Rocquencourt, French victory over Prussian forces. 3 July - Battle of Issy, French defeat by Prussian forces. 8 July - Louis XVIII returns. 15 July - Napoleon I surrenders and is transported to England. 14 August - Elections to Chamber of Deputies produces a heavy ultra-royalist majority. 3 October - Fall of the Mars meteorite Chassigny in Chassigny, Haute-Marne. 7 October - Chamber of Deputies (Chambre introuvable) first assembles. 15 October - Napoleon begins exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. 20 November - Treaty of Paris signed following defeat and second abdication of Napoleon. Allied Occupation of France continues until November 1818.
Births
January to June 21 February - Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, painter and sculptor (died 1891) 24 February - Jules Achille Noël, painter (died 1881) 12 March - Louis Jules Trochu, soldier and statesman (died 1896) 28 March - Arsène Houssaye, novelist and poet (died 1896) 8 April - Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer, theologian, critic and politician (died 1889) 9 April - Alphonse Beau de Rochas, engineer (died 1893) 13 April - Félix Esquirou de Parieu, statesman (died 1893) 25 April - Jean-François Jarjavay, anatomist and surgeon (died 1868) 27 April - Alexandre Martin, socialist statesman (died 1895) 5 May - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (died 1888) 8 May - Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist (died 1888)
July to December 6 July - Louis Pierre Gratiolet, anatomist and zoologist (died 1865) 24 July - Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (died 1893) 16 August - Madame Céleste, actress (died 1882) 26 August - Bernard Jauréguiberry, Admiral and statesman (died 1887) 3 December - Louis de Loménie, scholar, essayist and biographer (died 1878) 21 December - Thomas Couture, painter and teacher (died 1879)
Full date unknown Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, actor (died 1886) Jacques-Eugène Feyen, painter (died 1908) Louis Dominique Girard, hydraulic engineer (died 1871) Honoré Jacquinot, surgeon and zoologist (died 1887)
Deaths
January to June 11 January - Jean-Baptiste de Caffarelli du Falga, churchman (born 1763) 15 January - Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Horatio Nelson (born 1765 in Great Britain) 18 January - Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer (born 1738) 12 February - Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, General (born 1768) 17 April - Charles de la Bédoyère, General (born 1786) 1 June - Louis Alexandre Berthier, Marshal of France (born 1753) 18 June - Claude-Etienne Michel, General (born 1772) 18 June - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, General (born 1766)
July to December 2 August - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, Marshal of France (born 1763) 14 August - Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur, Bishop (born 1740) 20 September - Nicolas Desmarest, geologist (born 1725) 13 October - Joachim Murat, Marshal of France, brother-in-law of Napoleon (born 1767) 22 October - Claude Lecourbe, General (born 1759) 11 November - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, author (born 1748) 7 December - Michel Ney, Marshal of France (born 1769)
Full date unknown Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu, painter Philippe Henri, Comte de Grimoard, soldier and military writer (born 1753)
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