1814

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

\n* January 14 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden\n* January 29 - French army of Emperor Napoleon I wins the Battle of Brienne\n* January 31 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.\n* February - Congress of Chatillon - see George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen\n* February 1 - Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people; most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano\n* February 11 - Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union\n* February 14 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Vauchamps\n* February 18 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Montereau\n* March 7 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Craonne\n* March 9 - the third USS Enterprise reaches Wilmington, North Carolina, returning from the Caribbean.\n* March 10 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France\n* March 27 - War of 1812: In northern Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. \n* March 31 - Anti-Napoleonic troops occupy Paris\n* April 4 or April 6 - Emperor Napoleon abdicates. \n* April 10 - the Duke of Wellington wins the Battle of Toulouse\n* May 3 - Duke of Provence, future Louis XVIII of France returns to Paris\n* May 17 - Norway's new constitution\n* May 17 - Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian hands\n* 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. \n* July 5 - War of 1812: Battle of Chippewa - American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario.\n* July 24 - War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara Falls, Ontario to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.\n* 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 Americanss commences at 18.00; Americans retreat to Fort Erie.\n* August 13 - signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814\n* August 24 - War of 1812: British troops burn Washington, DC.\n* September 11 - USS Ticonderoga is victorious in the Battle of Lake Champlain\n* November 28 - London The Times newspaper becomes the first to be printed on a steam-powered press.\n* December 24 - peace treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812 between United States and Britain.

• George Stephenson designs his first locomotive Blutcher\n*Alexandria, Virginia is threatened by the British fleet and pays $100,000 for immunity from attack.\n*John Abernethy appointed lecturer in anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons\n*John Keats leaves apprenticeship to become a student at a local hospital\n*Sir Walter Scott writes Waverley\n* Guayana transferred from Netherlands to Britain\n* In England, the last hanging under the Black Act - William Potter for cutting down an orchard - even the judge petitioned for reprieve

Ongoing events

\n* Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Peninsular War/Sixth Coalition\n* War of 1812 (1812-1815)

Births

\n*January 27 - Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect\n*May 30 - Michael Bakunin, anarchist (+ 1876)\n*August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer\n*November 6 - Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone

Deaths

\n*January 27 - Philip Astley, the father of modern circus\n*March 28 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine\n*May 29 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France\n*August 31 - Arthur Phillip, the first governor of New South Wales, Australia\n*October 19 - Mercy Otis Warren, American playwright \n*November 23 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America, died in office\n*December 2 - Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n