Battle of Waterloo

Name: Battle of Waterloo
Start: 1815
Location: Waterloo

1815 · Waterloo · Europe · War

Wellington and Blücher end the Napoleonic era

Battle of Waterloo — William Sadler · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

On 18 June 1815 Wellington's allied army and Blücher's Prussians defeated Napoleon. The battle ended the Hundred Days and the Napoleonic Wars, while the Congress of Vienna set up a new order in Europe.

State: Netherlands, Netherlands

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Did you know

Two months before Waterloo, in April 1815, Indonesia's Tambora erupted — its ash brought the 'Year Without a Summer' to Europe and North America.

Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)

Eastern Europe & Russia

1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 3 years earlier

Middle East

1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 13 years later
1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 24 years later
1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 24 years later

Africa

1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 17 years earlier
1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — 11 years earlier
1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 10 years earlier
c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 20 years later

Asia

1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — same year
1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 2 years later
1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 4 years later
c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 16 years later
1839–1842 First Opium War — 24 years later

Americas

1803 Louisiana Purchase — 12 years earlier
1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — 5 years earlier
1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — 2 years later
1822 Independence of Brazil — 7 years later
1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — 20 years later