1814

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Decades:	1780s  1790s  1800s  - 1810s -  1820s  1830s  1840s
Years:	1811 1812 1813 - 1814 - 1815 1816 1817

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Year 1814 (MDCCCXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1814 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 1.6 Ongoing events 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 2.3 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 3.3 Unknown dates 4 Other

Events of 1814

January - March

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

April - June

• April 6 - Emperor Napoleon abdicates. Louis XVIII becomes King of France.
• April 10 - the Duke of Wellington wins the Battle of Toulouse.
• April 12 - Royal Norwegian Navy re-established.
• 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 Norwegian Constituent 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.

July - September

• 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.
• August 7 - Pope Pius VII reestablish the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) all over the world, after having approved their survival and existence in Russia.
• August 12 - In England, 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 - During the War of 1812, British troops occupy Washington, DC, setting numerous buildings on fire, including the Capitol.
• August 28 - Alexandria, Virginia offers surrender to the British fleet without a fight.

• September 11 – War of 1812: the Battle of Lake Champlain took place.

• September 13 – War of 1812: the bombardment of Fort McHenry at Baltimore.

October - December

• October - A giant vat full of porter (beer) owned by Meux's Brewery bursts, demolishing some housing on the road and killing eight people.
• November 7 – War of 1812: Andrew Jackson seizes Pensacola, Florida.
• December 15 – Hartford Convention convened.
• December 24 – War of 1812: Treaty of Ghent was signed.

Undated

• Missionaries attempt to write down the Maori language.
• George Stephenson designs his first locomotive Blücher.
• John Abernethy appointed lecturer in anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• 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".

Ongoing events

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

Births

1814 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1814 MDCCCXIV
Ab urbe condita	2567
Armenian calendar	1263 ԹՎ ՌՄԿԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-30 – -29
Buddhist calendar	2358
Chinese calendar	4450/4510-12-10 (癸酉年十二月初十日) — to — 4451/4511-11-20 (甲戌年十一月二十日)
Ethiopian calendar	1806 – 1807
Hebrew calendar	5574 – 5575
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1869 – 1870
- Shaka Samvat	1736 – 1737
- Kali Yuga	4915 – 4916
Holocene calendar	11814
Iranian calendar	1192 – 1193
Islamic calendar	1229 – 1230
Japanese calendar	Bunka 11 (文化11年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2474 (皇紀2474年)
- Jōmon Era	11814
Julian calendar	1859
Korean calendar	4147
Thai solar calendar	2357
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January - June

• 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, fifth 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)

July - December

• 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)

Unknown dates

• Táhirih, Persian Bahá'í heroine

See also Category: 1814 births.

Deaths

January - June

• January 27 - Philip Astley, English circus promoter (b. 1742)
• March 28 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French inventor (b. 1738)
• April 1 - Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (b. 1726)
• April 12 - Charles Burney, English music historian (b. 1726)
• May 29 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)

July - December

• 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)
• December 19 - Joseph Bramah, Inventor of the hydrolic press (b. 1748)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1814 deaths.

Other

• Year "1814" was what inspired the name of Janet Jackson's 2nd hit album, Rhythm Nation 1814. It was the year women could get an education beyond the 8th grade level.

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