1815 in the United States

::Henry Clay (DR-Kentucky) (starting December 4) - Congress: [13th](13th-united-states-congress) (until March 4), [14th](14th-united-states-congress) (starting March 4) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Battle_of_New_Orleans,_Jean_Hyacinthe_de_Laclotte.jpg" caption="Battle of New Orleans by Jean Hyacinthe de Laclotte"] :: - January 8 – War of 1812 – Battle of New Orleans: American forces under Andrew Jackson, John Coffee, and William Carroll, and John Adair defeat an invading British force. - February – The Hartford Convention arrives in Washington, D.C. - February 6 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens. - February 7–12 – War of 1812 – Second Battle of Fort Bowyer: British forces capture Fort Bowyer near Mobile, Alabama in what will be the last land battle between the Americans and British in the War of 1812. The British halt their advance two days later when informed of the Treaty of Ghent. - February 15 – War of 1812 – The United States Senate ratifies the Treaty of Ghent. - February 17 – War of 1812 ends. - September 23 – The Great September Gale of 1815 is the first hurricane to strike New England in 180 years. - December 25 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the U.S., gives its first performance, at the King's Chapel in Boston. ### Undated - The second wave of Amish immigration to North America begins. ### Ongoing - War of 1812 (1812–1815) ## Births - January 10 John J. McRae, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1851 to 1852 (died [1868](1868-in-the-united-states)) - January 16 - Lemuel J. Bowden, U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1863 to 1864 (died [1864](1864-in-the-united-states)) - Henry Halleck, general (died [1872](1872-in-the-united-states)) - January 18 - Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (died [1860](1860-in-the-united-states)) - Richard Yates, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1865 to 1871 (died [1873](1873-in-the-united-states)) - January 21 – Horace Wells, dentist; anesthesia pioneer (died [1848](1848-in-the-united-states)) - February 3 – Edward James Roye, 5th president of Liberia (d. 1872 in Liberia) - March 9 – David Davis, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1877 to 1883 (died [1886](1886-in-the-united-states)) - April 1 – Henry B. Anthony, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1859 to 1884 (died [1884](1884-in-the-united-states)) - May 3 – Drusilla Wilson, American temperance leader and Quaker pastor (died [1908](1908-in-the-united-states)) - May 10 – Henry Bibb, author and abolitionist who was born a slave (died [1854](1854-in-the-united-states)) - May 18 – Thomas S. Bocock, United States Congressman, Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives (died [1891](1891-in-the-united-states)) - June 1 – Philip Kearny, United States Army officer (died [1862](1862-in-the-united-states)) - July 13 – James Seddon, 4th Confederate States Secretary of War (died [1880](1880-in-the-united-states)) - September 1 – Emma Stebbins, sculptor (died [1882](1882-in-the-united-states)) - September 7 – Howell Cobb, President of the C.S. Provisional Congress (died [1868](1868-in-the-united-states)) - September 8 – Alexander Ramsey, 2nd governor of Minnesota from 1860 to 1863 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1863 to 1875 (died [1903](1903-in-the-united-states)) - September 12 – Richard S. Rust, abolitionist (died [1906](1906-in-the-united-states)) - September 19 – Charles B. Mitchel, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1862 to 1864 (died 1864) - October 29 – Dan Emmett, songwriter (died [1904](1904-in-the-united-states)) - November 1 – Crawford Long, American surgeon and pharmacist (died [1878](1878-in-the-united-states)) - November 12 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist (died [1902](1902-in-the-united-states)) - November 15 – John Banvard, panorama painter (died [1891](1891-in-the-united-states)) - November 17 – Eliza Farnham, novelist and reformer (died 1864) - December 31 – George Meade, general (died 1872) ## Deaths - February 24 – Robert Fulton, inventor (born [1765](1765)) - April 21 – Joseph Winston, patriot and Congressman from North Carolina (born [1746](1746)) - May 8 – David Ramsay, Member of the United States Continental Congress from South Carolina (born [1749](1749)) - September 9 – John Singleton Copley, painter (born [1738](1738); died in London) - September 24 – John Sevier, soldier, frontiersman, politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee (born [1745](1745)) - December 3 – John Carroll, first American Roman Catholic Archbishop (born [1735](1735)) ## References ## References 1. Johnson, H. Earle. (1986). "The New Grove Dictionary of American Music". *Macmillan Press*. 2. (2000). ["Historical Dictionary of Liberia"](https://books.google.com/books?id=qt0_RrW8ghkC). ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_in_the_United_States) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_in_the_United_States?action=history). ::