The Hundred Days was the brief period in 1815 when Napoleon Bonaparte returned to power in France after escaping from exile on the island of Elba. He landed in the south of France and marched north to Paris, with the army joining him on the way, while King Louis XVIII fled. The European powers declared him an outlaw and formed a Seventh Coalition against him. Napoleon moved into Belgium to attack the Allied armies before they could unite, but he was decisively defeated at Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian marshal Blucher. He abdicated again and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena, where he died, and Louis XVIII was restored to the throne.
Before and after
- 1815William Smith publishes the first geological map of England and Wales
- 8 January 1815Battle of New Orleans
- 6 March 1815Discovery of 13P/Olbers
- 16 March 1815Founding of Kingdom of the Netherlands
- 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
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