Napoleonic Timeline of 1815

January 1815

3rd January 1815 – A secret treaty was signed between France, England and Austria, intending to impede the Prussian and Russian ambitions in Germany.

February 1815

12 February 1815 – Hugues-Bernard Maret, Duke of Bassano, sent to Napoleon I an emissary, baron Pierre-Alexandre-Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon, to advise him to hasten his return to France.

26 February 1815 – The brig Inconstant, accompanied by a flotilla of four three-masted and two feluccas, departed at nine o'clock from the island of Elba, Napoleon aboard.

March 1815

1st March 1815 – Napoleon landed in Golfe-Juan , between Cannes and Antibes, French riviera.

5 March 1815 – At noon, Napoleon arrived in Sisteron, southern French Alpes. At eleven o'clock, he reached the city of Gap. French royal government was informed of the landing of Napoleon.

6 March 1815 – King Louis XVIII chaired a cabinet meeting to deal with the return of Napoleon. The King asked for the convocation of Parliament. A royal decree declared Napoleon Bonaparte traitor and rebel. All commanders of the armed forces would run down, bringing him before a court martial and shooting him on the simple fact of his identity.

7 March 1815 – The news of the departure of Napoleon from Elba arrived in Vienna [Wien].

10 March 1815 – Napoleon entered Lyon.

11 March 1815 – Napoleon reviewed his troops on the Place Bellecour, Lyon. He took a decree that dissolved the chambers of Louis XVIII, and another one that directed all emigrants returned after 1st January 1814 to immediately get out of the Empire. He left Lyon at noon. The same day, the Congress of Vienna said: Napoleon Bonaparte has placed himself outside the civil and social relations and as an enemy and disturber of the world, he has engaged in public prosecution.

18 March 1815 – The French Chamber of Deputies declared that the war against Napoleon Bonaparte was national.

19 March 1815 – King Louis XVIII asked the Army to remain faithful, while promising to forgive and forget lost children. He left the Tuileries Palace at midnight. In the night, Napoleon arrived in Montereau.

20 March 1815 – Napoleon arrived at Fontainebleau at 4 AM. At 9 AM he reached the courtyard of the Tuileries Palace and set up a government.

21 March 1815 – Lazare Carnot was made Minister of Interior and Count of the Empire.

23 March 1815 – Louis XVIII published from Lille, North France, an order to all French commanding to disobey any order of mobilization from Napoleon Bonaparte.

24 March 1815 – The imperial power suppressed the direction of the library and censorship.

25 March 1815 – Legislation passed by the revolutionary assemblies against the Bourbons were updated.

26 March 1815 – The National Guard of Paris would have the Emperor as commander.

27 March 1815 – The Council of State annulled the forfeiture of Napoleon.

30 March 1815 – The Imperial University, which had been suppressed by Louis XVIII on 17 February, was reinstated.

April 1815

17 April 1815 – Napoleon 1 moved to the Elysée Palace.

20 April 1815 – The Parisians were informed, by firing a hundred guns, that the tricolor flag fleeted again on all the cities of France.

22 April 1815 – Publication of the Acte additionel (supplementary to the constitutions of the Empire).

25 April 1815 – The Allies were committed not to lay down their arms until they have killed Napoleon.

2nd May 1815 – Louis XVIII, in a manifesto published in Ghent, Belgium, called the French people to chase out the usurper.

May 1815

12 May 1815 – The Allies confirmed their decision of April 25th.

15 May 1815 – Royalist rebellion resumed in Vendée, West France.

26 May 1815 – The Tsar Alexander I of Russia, theEmperor Francis I of Austria and King Frederick William III of Prussia started leading the liberation army.

June 1815

1st June 1815 – Assembly of the Champ-de-Mai: Emperor Napoleon I swoare-in to new constitutions of the Empire.

2nd June 1815 – The British House of Commons voted a budget of 3,169,622 pounds for war costs in 1815.

9 June 1815 – The final treaty, which set the state of Europe, was signed at the Congress of Vienna.

12 June 1815 – Napoleon left Paris to join the army.

14 June 1815 – Proclamation to his troops.

15 June 1815 – The French army crossed the river Sambre.

16 June 1815 – The enemy suffered heavy losses in the plains of Fleurus, near Ligny, but was not destroyed.

18 June 1815 – The Battle of Waterloo took place at Mont-Saint-Jean, Walloon Brabant.

On the battlefield of Waterloo (2015 re-enactment, for the bicentenary)

19 June 1815 – Battle of Wavre, east of Waterloo, between the troops of Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy and the Prussian III Corps.

20 June 1815 – Victory of General Jean Maximilien Lamarque over the Vendéens at Rocheservière.

21 June 1815 – Napoleon returned to the Elysée palace, Paris.

22 June 1815 – Abdication in favor of Napoleon II. Joseph Fouché formed a provisional government.

24 June 1815 – Napoleon left Paris. The "White Terror" (royalist) began in the South of France.

25 June 1815 – King Louis XVIII came back to France.

July 1815

3rd July 1815 – Capitulation of Paris.

7 July 1815 – Ministry Talleyrand-Fouché was established by the Count of Artois.

8 July 1815 – King Louis XVIII returned to Paris.

15 July 1815 – Napoleon embarked at Rochefort aboard the HMS Bellerophon, commanded by Captain Frederick Maitland, which set sail to England .

August 1815

7 August 1815 – Napoleon was transferred aboard the HMS Northumberland, which set sail to the island of St. Helena, located in the middle of the South Atlantic.

October 1815

16 October 1815 – St. Helena [-15.92416, -5.71868].