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Information about 1814

Events

   * January 14 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden
   * 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
   * March 7 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Craonne
   * March 9 - the third USS Enterprise reaches Wilmington, North Carolina,
     returning from the Caribbean.
   * March 10 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
   * March 27 - War of 1812: In northern Alabama, United States forces under
     General Andrew Jackson defeat Creek Native Americans at the Battle of
     Horseshoe Bend.
   * April 4 or April 6 - Emperor Napoleon abdicates.
   * April 10 - the Duke of Wellington wins the Battle of Toulouse
   * May 17 - Norway's new constitution
   * May 17 - Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian hands.
   * May 30 - The First Treaty of Paris is singed returning France's borders
     to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I of France is exiled to Elba on the
     same day.
   * July 5 - War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa - American Major General Jacob
     Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario.
   * July 24 - War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara to
     halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
   * July 25 - War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements arrive
     near Niagara 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 13 - signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814
   * September 11 - USS Ticonderoga is victorious in the Battle of Lake
     Champlain
   * November 28 - London 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.

   * George Stephenson designs his first locomotive Blutcher
   * Alexandria, Virginia is threatened by the British fleet and pays
     $100,000 for immunity from attack.
   * 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

Births

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

Deaths

   * March 28 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine
   * May 29 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France
   * November 23 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of
     America, died in office
   * December 2 - Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
   * Philip Astley, the father of modern circus
   * Arthur Phillip, the first governer of New South Wales, Australia

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