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1815
The Funchal Misericórdia tried, unsuccessfully, to take over the property of the four rural Misericórdias.
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1815
A smallpox epidemic, brought by a ship from Cape Verde, killed about 2,000 people in Madeira.
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1815
The Câmara complained to the bishop because a chaplain rather than a canon had incensed it at the church of São Tiago.
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1815
Councillors were summoned to a beija-mão at the Palácio de São Lourenço for Queen Maria I's birthday.
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1815
Manuel de Pontes Câmara was born.
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1815
The Funchal council ordered a silk standard from Lisbon costing 524$000 réis.
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1815
Famine on Porto Santo required relief supplies.
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1815
Januário Vicente Camacho was ordained priest.
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1815
The municipal council greatly improved the Caminho do Paiol.
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1815
The council ordered the monthly vaccination of foundlings by the físico-mor.
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3 January 1815
Jacinto Augusto Camacho was born in Funchal.
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16 April 1815–22 April 1815
Florêncio José Correia de Melo arrived in Funchal on 16 April 1815 and took office as governor and captain-general of the archipelago on 22 April.
Chief authorities of the archipelagoMelo (Florêncio José Correia de) Florêncio José Correia de Melo Funchal
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13 June 1815
The Funchal municipal council accompanied the procession of Saint Anthony.
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7 July 1815–9 July 1815
Illuminations were held for a religious solemnity in honour of St James the Less.
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16 July 1815–7 August 1815
Napoleon boarded HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort and was later transferred to the Northumberland under Sir George Cockburn, which sailed south.
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1 August 1815
Lourenço José Moniz defended his Latin thesis De Ictero at Edinburgh.
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22 August 1815–25 August 1815
The squadron carrying Napoleon aboard the Northumberland to exile on Saint Helena arrived off Funchal, where consul Henry Veitch visited him, and left for Saint Helena.
Belle PouleMelo (Florêncio José Correia de)NapoleonVeitch (Henrique) Napoleon Harbour of FunchalSt Helena
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23 August 1815
An exceptionally hot leste wind and storm damaged crops and houses in Madeira, popularly blamed on Napoleon.
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11 September 1815
Princess Leopoldina called at Madeira en route to Brazil.
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15 October 1815
The squadron carrying Napoleon anchored at Saint Helena.
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26 October 1815
A major flood damaged Funchal, especially along the São João stream.
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c. 1815
José Joaquim de Abreu Rego was born in Madeira.
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c. 1815
Vicente Nery da Silva was ordained priest.