1815

Events in 1815 10

• 1815 – 1882 Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) Died 6 December 1882, aged 67 Trollope was an English novelist best known for the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser series, which chronicled Victorian clerical and political life. He was also a senior official of the Post Office and is credited with introducing the pillar box to Britain. He died in London following a stroke.
• 1815 – 1854 Edward Forbes (1815-1854) Died 18 November 1854, aged 39 Forbes was a Manx naturalist and marine biologist whose studies of the distribution of sea life laid groundwork for the field of marine ecology. He held professorships at the Royal School of Mines and, briefly, at the University of Edinburgh.
• 1815 – 1842 Grace Darling (1815-1842) Died 20 October 1842, aged 26 Grace Darling was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper on the Farne Islands. She became a national heroine after she and her father rowed out in a storm in 1838 to rescue survivors of the wrecked steamer Forfarshire. She died of tuberculosis.
• 1815 – 1891 John A. Macdonald (1815-1891) Died 6 June 1891, aged 76 First Prime Minister of Canada and a principal architect of Canadian Confederation in 1867. He served multiple terms in office and oversaw construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He died in office shortly after winning his final general election.
• 1815 – 1897 Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) Died 19 February 1897, aged 81 Karl Weierstrass was a German mathematician known as the father of modern analysis for his rigorous formulation of calculus and continuous functions. He taught at the University of Berlin and mentored a generation of mathematicians including Sofia Kovalevskaya. He died in Berlin on 19 February 1897.
• 1815 – 1898 Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Died 30 April 1898, aged 83 Otto von Bismarck engineered the unification of Germany and served as its first Chancellor from 1871 to 1890. His alliance system dominated European diplomacy for two decades. He died at his estate in Friedrichsruh on 30 April 1898.
• 1815 – 1862 Philip Kearny (1815-1862) Died 1 September 1862, aged 47 Kearny was a Union general known for his aggressive tactics and for losing his left arm in the Mexican-American War. He was killed by Confederate fire while personally reconnoitering enemy lines at the Battle of Chantilly.
• 1815 – 1843 William I First King of the Netherlands William I became the first king of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1815 Congress of Vienna Recognition of Neutrality The European powers formally recognized Switzerland's "perpetual neutrality" as being in the interests of Europe.
• 1815 – 1852 Ada Lovelace Mathematician & First Computer Programmer Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was an English mathematician best known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her 1843 notes on the machine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a computer, earning her the informal title of the first computer programmer. Daughter of the poet Lord Byron, she was raised by her mother to study mathematics and science rather than poetry, a path that led her to a lifelong intellectual partnership with Babbage. Though she died young, her writings anticipated the potential of computing machines to go far beyond arithmetic.