1815 in France

Events from the year 1815 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch –
Until 20 March: Louis XVIII{{cite web |title=Hundred Days {{!}} French history {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Hundred-Days-French-history |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=26 June 2022 |language=en}}
20 March – 22 June: Napoleon I
22 June – 7 July: Napoleon II{{cite book |last1=Meyerbeer |first1=Giacomo |title=The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791-1839 |date=1999 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |isbn=978-0-8386-3789-0 |page=367 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3V2vCxvYNkC&pg=PA367 |language=en}}
Starting 8 July: Louis XVIII
Prime Minister –
9 July – 26 September: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord{{cite book |last1=Nichols |first1=I. C. |title=The European Pentarchy and the Congress of Verona, 1822 |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-94-010-2725-0 |page=166 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MtEGCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA166 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Dwyer |first1=Philip G. |title=Talleyrand |date=17 September 2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-88183-4 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MtoYDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT13 |language=en}}
Starting 26 September: Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu{{cite web |title=Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duke de Richelieu {{!}} prime minister of France {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Armand-Emmanuel-du-Plessis-duc-de-Richelieu |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=26 June 2022 |language=en}}

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 of France.
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.{{cite web | url =http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1d19/dumont-durville-jules-sebastien-cesar|title=Story: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sébastien César|publisher=The Encyclopedia of New Zealand| access-date =26 March 2016}}
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 of France 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.