1815

1815 was 56 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and four years before Alabama became a state.

Events

• June 29: The Mississippi territorial legislature designated Monroe County, which originally stretched into what is now central Alabama from the Florida border.
• Jasper was first settled by E. G. Musgrove.
• Montevallo was first settled.
• Woodlawn was first settled by a group of farming families.

Context

In 1815, the Treaty of Ghent was ratified by the U.S. and Britain, ending the War of 1812. Napoleon escaped from Elba, ruled France for the Hundred Days until the Battle of Waterloo, and was exiled to Saint Helena. Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies erupted explosively. The Great September Gale of 1815 struck New England.

Notable births in 1815 included John A. Macdonald, Otto von Bismarck, Ada Lovelace, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Notable deaths included Robert Fulton, Joachim Murat, and Archbishop John Carroll.

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