The Battle of Waterloo was fought near the village of Waterloo, south of Brussels in what is now Belgium, and it ended the career of Napoleon Bonaparte, who had returned from exile on Elba in the episode known as the Hundred Days. His French army faced the Anglo-allied army of the Duke of Wellington, and the Prussian army of Field Marshal Blucher. Wellington held a defensive position through the day against repeated French attacks, and the arrival of the Prussians on Napoleon's flank turned the battle. The Imperial Guard was repulsed and the French army collapsed. Napoleon abdicated again and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena.
Before and after
- from 20 March 1815 to 8 July 1815Hundred Days
- 1 April 1815Birth of Otto von Bismarck
- from 9 June 1815 to 1 January 1915Congress Poland
- from 10 June 1815 to 24 August 1866Founding of German Confederation
- 18 June 1815Battle of Waterloo
- from 3 July 1815 to 3 August 1818Russian Rurik Expedition
- 10 December 1815Birth of Ada Lovelace
- from 1816 to 1858Seminole Wars
- 1816The Year Without a Summer
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