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1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 July 1.7 August 1.8 September-December 1.9 Unknown dates 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 14 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in exchange for west Pomerania, as part of the Treaty of Kiel.
• January 29 - French army of Emperor Napoleon I wins the Battle of Brienne.
• January 31 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.

[edit] February

• February - Congress of Chatillon - see George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.
• February 1 - Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people; most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano.
• February 11 - Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union.
• February 14 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Vauchamps.
• February 18 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Montereau.
• February 21 - Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814.

[edit] March

• March 7 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Craonne.
• March 9 - the USS Enterprise reaches Wilmington, North Carolina, returning from the Caribbean.
• March 10 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
• March 12 - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angouleme enters Bourdeaux, marking the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty.
• March 27 - War of 1812: In northern Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• March 30 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
• March 31 - Anti-Napoleonic troops occupy Paris.

[edit] April

• April 4 or April 6 - Emperor Napoleon abdicates.
• April 10 - the Duke of Wellington wins the Battle of Toulouse.
• April 12 - Royal Norwegian Navy re-established.

[edit] May

• May 3 - Duke of Provence, future Louis XVIII of France returns to Paris.
• May 5 - British-American War (War of 1812): The British attack Fort Ontario at Oswego, New York.
• May 17 - The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Constitutional assembly.
• May 17 - Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian hands.
• May 30 - The First Treaty of Paris is signed returning France's borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I of France is exiled to Elba on the same day.

[edit] July

• July 5 - War of 1812: Battle of Chippewa - American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario.
• July 24 - War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara Falls, Ontario to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
• July 25 - War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls, Ontario for General Riall's British and Canadian force, and bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; Americans retreat to Fort Erie.

[edit] August

• August 12 - In England, on 12th August 1814, the last hanging under the Black Act - William Potter for cutting down an orchard - even the judge petitioned for reprieve.
• August 13 - signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814.
• August 24 - War of 1812: British troops burn Washington, DC, The Burning of Washington.
• August 28 - Alexandria, Virginia offers surrender to the British fleet without a fight.

[edit] September-December

• September 11 - USS Ticonderoga is victorious in the Battle of Lake Champlain.
• September 11-15 - American forces stop a British land/sea invasion during the Battle of Baltimore.
• September 14 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner.
• November 28 - London The Times newspaper becomes the first to be printed on a steam-powered press.
• December 24 - peace treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812 between United States and Britain.

[edit] Unknown dates

• Missionaries attempt to write down the Maori language.
• George Stephenson designs his first locomotive Blutcher.
• John Abernethy appointed lecturer in anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons.
• John Keats leaves apprenticeship to become a student at a local hospital.
• Sir Walter Scott writes Waverley.
• Guyana transferred from Netherlands to Britain; it is renamed "British Guiana".

[edit] Ongoing events

• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Peninsular War/Sixth Coalition
• War of 1812 (1812-1815)

[edit] Births

• January 27 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1879)
• February 18 - Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician and temperance activist (d. 1900)
• March 9 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet, nationalist, and founder of the Ukrainian language (d. 1861)
• April 3 - Lorenzo Snow, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1901)
• April 21 - Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist (d. 1906)
• May 12 - Adolf von Henselt, German composer
• May 30 - Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
• August 8 - Esther Morris, American suffragist and judge (d. 1902)
• August 10 - Henri Nestlé, German-born Swiss chocolate magnate (d. 1890)
• August 13 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
• August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
• September 2 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian (d. 1896)
• September 8 - Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874)
• October 4 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
• October 15 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer (d. 1841)
• November 6 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker and inventor (d. 1894)
• Táhirih, Persian Bahá'í heroine

[edit] Deaths

• January 27 - Philip Astley, English circus promoter (b. 1742)
• March 28 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French inventor (b. 1838)
• April 12 - Charles Burney, English music historian (b. 1726)
• May 29 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)
• July 12 - William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, British general
• July 19 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia (b. 1774)
• August 21 - Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (b. 1748)
• August 21 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
• August 31 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral and first governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
• September 8 - Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, and de facto ruler (b. 1752)
• October 19 - Mercy Otis Warren, American playwright (b. 1728)
• November 23 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
• December 2 - Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French writer (b. 1740)
• December 13 - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)

Alexander A. Johnson 04:52, 19 November 2006 (UTC)