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August 24 : British troops capture Washington D.C., capital of the United States, and burn the U.S. Capitol and the White House after President Madison and members of Congress flee.April 11 : France's EmperorNapoleon , conqueror of much of Europe, abdicates by signing theTreaty of Fontainebleau (1814) .1814 by topic Humanities By country Other topics Lists of leaders Birth and death categories Establishments and disestablishments categories Works category
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January 29 :Battle of Brienne 1814 (MDCCCXIV ) was acommon year starting on Saturday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Thursday of theJulian calendar , the 1814th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 14th year of the19th century , and the 5th year of the1810s decade. As of the start of 1814, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
February 1 :Cagsawa Church is destroyed by eruption ofMount Mayon .March 9 : Theschooner Enterprise Caribbean .April 12 –
April 14 –Napoleonic Wars –Battle of Bayonne : The Allies defeat a French sortie from Bayonne.April 18 /19 –Genoa surrenders to the British Royal Navy.April 24 –Convention of Mantua : The NapoleonicKingdom of Italy is returned to provisional Austrian rule.April 28 May 2 –Napoleonic Wars –Declaration of Saint-Ouen :Louis XVIII of France declares his support for representative government while claiming unlimited monarchical sovereignty.May 3 May 4 May 6 –War of 1812 –Battle of Fort Oswego : British forces attackFort Ontario atOswego, New York .May 14 –16 –War of 1812 – AmericanRaid on Port Dover and destruction of property.May 16 –William Brown , Irish-born rebel leader and future Admiral of the Navy of Argentina, begins a blockade ofMontevideo , the colonial capital of Rio de la Plata.[ 2] May 17 May 24 – Duke of Wellington arrives in Madrid from Paris in an attempt to avert civil war between supporters of Ferdinand VII and the opposition Liberals, including many troops who fought under him during the Peninsular WarMay 27 –War of the Sixth Coalition –Siege of Hamburg ends in a French capitulation.May 28 May 29 –30 –War of 1812 –Battle of Big Sandy Creek : US forces capture British marines and sailors.May 30 –Napoleonic Wars : TheFirst Treaty of Paris is signed, returning France's borders to their1792 extent.Napoleon is exiled toElba on the same day.June 4 –Charter of 1814 :Louis XVIII of France issues theCharter of 1814 , a written constitution that retains royal supremacy and will remain in force from 1814 to 1815 and again from 1815 to 1830.June 6 – Beginning of theAllied sovereigns' visit to England : TsarAlexander I of Russia and KingFrederick William III of Prussia sail fromBoulogne-Sur-Mer toDover on board theRoyal Navy shipHMSImpregnable as guests ofGeorge, Prince of Wales , the regent during the incapacity of King George III.[ 3] June 12 – The poem "She Walks in Beauty " is written byLord Byron .[ 4] June 17 – In London, Alexander, Frederick William and George exchange their ratifications of the Peace Treaty ending the war with France.[ 5] June 20 –Gaspar de Vigodet ,Spain 's last colonial administrator of theViceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (covering nearly all of modern-day Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay), surrenders the city ofMontevideo to independence fighters, led by GeneralCarlos María de Alvear .[ 2] June 21 – The secretEight Articles of London are signed between the Great Powers, uniting theLow Countries underWilliam I of the Netherlands .June 28 –War of 1812 –Sinking of HMSReindeer byUSSWasp .July 3 –War of 1812 –Capture of Fort Erie by the Americans under Major GeneralJacob Brown .July 5 –War of 1812 –Battle of Chippawa : American Major GeneralJacob Brown defeats British GeneralPhineas Riall atChippawa , Ontario.July 7 –Walter Scott 'sWaverley historical novels in English, is published anonymously byArchibald Constable inEdinburgh , selling out in two days.[ 6] July 13 – TheCarabinieri (the nationalmilitary police of Italy) is established byVictor Emmanuel , as the police force of theKingdom of Sardinia .July 19 –20 –War of 1812 –Siege of Prairie du Chien : British troops and Native Americans besiege and capture the frontier settlement.July 19 –War of 1812 –Battle of Rock Island Rapids : British-allied tribes ambush and defeat an American expedition in Illinois.July 22 –War of 1812 – TheTreaty of Greenville is signed between the U.S. government and Native American tribes.July 25 July 26 – TheSwedish–Norwegian War (1814) begins with a Swedish attack.July 28 – The revivedLigurian Republic is dissolved.July 29 – Swedish–Norwegian War: Theinvasion of Hvaler ends in a Swedish victory.July 30 – TheGreat fire of Tirschenreuth in Bavaria destroys the town and 907 buildings.August 1 – TheGrand Jubilee of 1814 is held in Britain, celebrating the hundredth anniversary of theHanoverian Succession August 2 – Swedish–Norwegian War:Battle of Lier ends in a Norwegian victory.August 4 August 5 – Swedish–Norwegian War: theBattle of Matrand ends in a Norwegian victory.August 7 –Pope Pius VII decrees the bullSollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum Society of Jesus (Jesuits) all over the world, after having approved their survival and existence in Russia.August 9 August 12 – In England, the last hanging under theBlack Act is carried out, of William Potter for cutting down anorchard (although the judge petitions for reprieve).August 13 – TheAnglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 is signed in London, returning most possessions of theDutch Empire acquired by the United Kingdom since1803 to the Netherlands, although Britain retains theCape of Good Hope and the South American settlements ofDemerara ,Essequibo andBerbice (later consolidated asBritish Guiana ). In addition, the British cede the island ofBanca off the island ofSumatra , in exchange for the settlement ofCochin , India.August 13 –September 6 –War of 1812 –Engagements on Lake Huron result in British victory.August 14 August 24 –War of 1812 –Burning of Washington : British troops, after defeating American forces at theBattle of Bladensburg , occupy Washington, D.C., setting numerous buildings on fire, including theCapitol andPresidential Mansion .August 26 –Chilean War of Independence –Battle of Las Tres Acequias ends in victory for the forces ofJose Miguel Carrera .August 31 –War of 1812 –Battle of Caulk's Field : American militia defeats British landing.September 13 : Bombardment ofFort McHenry November 1 : Anglo-Nepalese war beginsHeinrich Geissler January 1 January 27 –Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , French architect (d.1879 )February 9 –Samuel J. Tilden ,25th Governor of New York ,1876 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee (d.1886 )February 18 –Samuel Fenton Cary , American politician, temperance activist (d.1900 )March 9 –Taras Shevchenko , Ukrainian poet (d.1861 )March 17 –Kamehameha III , King of the Hawaiian Islands (d.1854 )April 3 –Lorenzo Snow , 5th president ofthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.1901 )April 21 –Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts , English philanthropist (d.1906 )May 7 –Henriette Hansen , Norwegian ballerina, singer and actor (d.1892 )May 12 –Adolf von Henselt , German composer (d.1889 )May 26 May 30 June 21 –Paweł Bryliński , Polish sculptor (d.1890 )[ 12] Anders Jonas Ångström Adolphe Sax July 3 –Ferdinand Didrichsen , Danish botanist, physicist (d.1887 )July 11 –Louis Melsens , Belgian chemist and physicist (d.1886 )July 19 August 8 –Esther Morris , American suffragist, judge (d.1902 )August 10 –Henri Nestlé , German-born Swiss chocolate magnate (d.1890 )August 13 –Anders Jonas Ångström , Swedish physicist (d.1874 )August 23 –James Roosevelt Bayley , American bishop (d.1877 )August 28 –Sheridan Le Fanu , Irish writer (d.1873 )September 2 –Ernst Curtius , German archaeologist, historian (d.1896 )September 3 –James Joseph Sylvester , English mathematician (d.1897 )September 6 –George-Étienne Cartier , Canadian lawyer, politician (d.1873 )September 7 –William Butterfield , British architect (d.1900 )September 8 –Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg , French writer, historian (d.1874 )September 27 –Daniel Kirkwood , American astronomer (d.1895 )October 1 –Josefina Deland , Swedish women's rights activist (d.1890 )October 4 –Jean-François Millet , French painter (d.1875 )October 7 –Susanna Dickinson , survivor of the Alamo (d.1883 )October 15 –Mikhail Lermontov , Russian writer (d.1841 )November 6 –Adolphe Sax , Belgian musical instrument maker, inventor (d.1894 )November 13 –Joseph Hooker , American general (d.1879 )November 22 –Serranus Clinton Hastings , American politician (d.1893 )November 25 –Julius von Mayer , German physician, physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics (d.1878 )November 26 –Luise Aston , German author, feminist (d.1871 )December 12 –Juan Prim, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos , Prime Minister of Spain (d.1870 )December 13 –Ana Néri , Brazilian nurse, matron of nursing in that country (d.1880 )December 18 –Sarah T. Bolton , née Sarah Tittle Barrett, American poet (d.1893 )Johann Gottlieb Fichte January 7 –Ira Allen , founder ofVermont , leader of theGreen Mountain Boys (b.1751 )January 16 –Friedrich Karl Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe , Austrian general (b.1752 )January 26 –Manuel do Cenáculo , Portuguese prelate and antiquarian (b.1724 )[ 14] January 27 February 26 –John Cleves Symmes , American statesman (b.1742 )February 27 –Margaret Bingham British countess, painter and writer (b.1740 )[ 15] March 6 –Angelica Schuyler Church , daughter of Genl.Philip Schuyler , sister toElizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (b.1756 )March 18 –Vincent Abbadie , French surgeon (b.1737 )March 26 –Joseph-Ignace Guillotin , French physician (b.1738 )April 1 –Joseph de Ferraris , Austriancartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (b.1726 )April 12 –Charles Burney , English music historian (b.1726 )April 19 –Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury , England (b.1729 )May 2 May 5 –Abdullah I Al-Sabah , Kuwaiti ruler (b.1740 )May 6 May 27 –Ivan Akimov , Russian painter (b.1754 )May 29 –Joséphine de Beauharnais , Empress of France (b.1763 )June 14 –Antin Angelovych , Greek-Catholic metropolitan (b.1756 )June 27 –Johann Friedrich Reichardt , German composer (b.1752 )Matthew Flinders Marquis de Sade July 12 –William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe , British general (b.1729 )July 18 –Miles Peter Andrews , English playwright, legislator (b.1742 )July 19 – CaptainMatthew Flinders , English explorer of the coasts of Australia (b.1774 )July 25 –Charles Dibdin , English composer (b.1745 )August 21 August 28 –Erik Must Angell , Norwegian jurist, politician (b.1744 )August 31 –Arthur Phillip , British admiral, 1stGovernor of New South Wales (b.1738 )September 8 –Maria Carolina of Austria , queen ofFerdinand I of the Two Sicilies , andde facto ruler (b.1752 )September 22 –August Wilhelm Iffland , German actor (b.1759 )October 1 –Guillaume-Antoine Olivier , French entomologist (b.1756 )October 4 –Samuel Jackson Pratt , English writer, poet and actor (b.1749 )[ 16] October 19 –Mercy Otis Warren , American playwright (b.1728 )November 18 –Aleijadinho ,Colonial Brazil -bornsculptor andarchitect (b.1730 or1738 )November 23 –Elbridge Gerry ,5th Vice President of the United States (b.1744 )December 2 –Marquis de Sade , French writer for whom sadism is named (b.1740 )December 13 –Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne , Austrian field marshal (b.1735 )December 19 –Joseph Bramah , English inventor of the hydraulic press (b.1748 )December 26 –Nicolas-François Guillard , French librettist (b.1752 )^ Jones, Neal T., ed. 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