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Events

January 3 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
January 8 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans
February 3 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded (Switzerland).
February 6 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
February 26 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba
March 1 - Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
March 16 - Willem I becomes King of the Netherlands
March 20 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000 beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
April 12 - Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies blows its top during an eruption event that started on April 5. 92,000 are killed during this eruption. The event is the cause of 1816 becoming known as the Year Without A Summer.
June 18 - Battle of Waterloo ends the Napoleonic wars.
June 22 - Napoleon abdicates again, restoration of Louis XVIII as King of France
July 17 - In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort to British forces.
October 15 - Napoleon I of France begins his exile on St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.

February 24 - Robert Fulton, inventor, perfected the steamboat.
March 4 - Frances Abington - english actress
March 5 - Franz Mesmer, developer of hypnotism
December 7 - Michel Ney, a marshal of the French army, execution by firing squad