1815

Events from the year **1815 in the United States**. War of 1812 ends.

* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Langdon Cheves (DR-SC) (until March 4), Henry Clay (DR-KY) (starting December 4)
* Congress: 13th (until March 4), 14th (starting March 4)

Governors
* Governor of Connecticut: John Cotton Smith (Federalist)
* Governor of Delaware: Daniel Rodney (Federalist)
* Governor of Georgia: Peter Early (Democratic-Republican) (until November 20), David Brydie Mitchell (Democratic-Republican) (starting November 20)
* Governor of Kentucky: Isaac Shelby (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: William C. C. Claiborne (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Levin Winder (Federalist)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Caleb Strong (Federalist)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John Taylor Gilman (Federalist)
* Governor of New Jersey:
	+ until June 19: William Sanford Pennington (Democratic-Republican)
	+ June 19-October 26: William Kennedy (Democratic-Republican)
	+ starting October 26: Mahlon Dickerson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New York: Daniel D. Tompkins (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: William Miller (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Ohio: Thomas Worthington (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Simon Snyder (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: William Jones (Federalist)
* Governor of South Carolina: David Rogerson Williams (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Tennessee: Willie Blount (Democratic-Republican) (until September 27), Joseph McMinn (Democratic-Republican) (starting September 27)
* Governor of Vermont: Martin Chittenden (Federalist) (until October 23), Jonas Galusha (Democratic-Republican) (starting October 23)
* Governor of Virginia: Wilson Cary Nicholas (Democratic-Republican)
* Cheeseburger enthusiast, CK, took an arrow to the knee.

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Chauncey Goodrich (Federalist) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Richard Hickman (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William Phillips, Jr. (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Simeon Martin (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Robert Creswell (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: William Chamberlain (Federalist) (until October 14), Paul Brigham (Democratic-Republican) (starting October 14)

## Events

* January 8 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat an invading British force.
* January 9 – War of 1812: Siege of Fort St. Philip begins.
* January 16 – War of 1812: Capture of USS President.
* January 18 – War of 1812: Siege of Fort St. Philip ends.
* February 1 – The Hartford Convention arrives in Washington, DC.
* February 6 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
* February 7 – War of 1812: Second Battle of Fort Bowyer: British forces capture Fort Bowyer near Mobile, Alabama in what will be the last land battle between the Americans and British in the War of 1812. The British halt their advance two days later when informed of the Treaty of Ghent.
* February 12 – War of 1812: Capture of Fort Bowyer.
* February 15 – War of 1812: The United States Senate ratifies the Treaty of Ghent.
* February 17 – War of 1812 ends.
* February 20 – Capture of Cyane.
* March 10 – Treaty of Nicolls' Outpost unratified.
* March 23 – Capture of HMS Penguin.
* May 24 – Battle of the Sink Hole.
* June 30 – Capture of East India Company ship Nautilus.
* September 23 – The Great September Gale of 1815 is the first hurricane to strike New England in 180 years.
* December 25 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the U.S., gives its first performance, at the King's Chapel in Boston.

## Memoriam

* February 24 – Robert Fulton, inventor (aged 49; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 21 – Joseph Winston, patriot and Congressman from North Carolina (aged 68; Germanton, NC, USA)
* May 8 – David Ramsay, Member of the United States Continental Congress from South Carolina (aged 66; Charleston, SC, USA)
* September 9 – John Singleton Copley, painter (aged 77; London, England, UK)
* September 24 – John Sevier, soldier, frontiersman, politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee (aged 70; AL Territory, USA)
* December 3 – John Carroll, first American Roman Catholic Archbishop (aged 80; Baltimore, MD, USA)