Today in History for Year 1813

Months in Year 1813: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 56 of 56

Jan 11th - 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21)
Jan 14th - Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in US (NY)
Jan 21st - Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111)
Jan 22nd - Americans capture Frenchtown, Michigan Territory
Jan 28th - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
Feb 23rd - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
Feb 27th - 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
Feb 27th - Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
Mar 3rd - Office of surgeon general of the US army forms
Mar 8th - 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic
Mar 18th - David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas
Mar 25th - 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
Apr 27th - Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
Apr 29th - Ist US Rubber patent granted to Jacob F Hummel
May 11th - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
May 23rd - South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")
May 27th - Americans capture Ft George, Canada
May 31st - In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
Jun 1st - Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
Military and Political Leader Simon Bolivar Jun 6th - US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
Jun 21st - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
Jun 24th - Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces
Jul 5th - War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
Jul 31st - British invade Plattsburgh NY
Aug 14th - British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
Aug 19th - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
Aug 23rd - Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
Aug 27th - Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
Aug 30th - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
Sep 4th - 1st US relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
Sep 7th - "Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to US (Troy Post of NY)
Sep 10th - Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie
Sep 30th - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla
Oct 5th - Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
Oct 8th - Treaty of Ried between Bayern & Austria
Oct 16th - Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria & Russia)
Oct 20th - German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
Oct 23rd - The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
Nov 2nd - Treaty of Fulda
Nov 3rd - US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala
Nov 6th - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
Nov 11th - Dresden surrenders to allied armies
Nov 12th - Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth
Nov 15th - Allied troops occupies Groningen
Nov 15th - Tax revolt in Amsterdam
Nov 21st - Stettin surrenders to allied armies
Nov 28th - Kosacks occupy Utrecht
Nov 29th - Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance
Nov 30th - Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands
Dec 2nd - Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy
Dec 5th - Lubeck surrenders to allied armies
Dec 8th - Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
Dec 18th - British take Ft Niagara in War of 1812
Dec 26th - Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies
Dec 29th - British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812
Dec 30th - Danzig surrenders to allied armies

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 84 of 84

Jan 4th - Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59)
Jan 4th - Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand)
Jan 4th - Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator
Jan 5th - Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
Jan 15th - James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)
Jan 18th - Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)
Jan 19th - Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine)
Jan 20th - Jacon Gartner Lauman, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
Jan 23rd - Franz Commer, composer
Jan 26th - Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876
Jan 31st - Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist
Feb 8th - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist
Feb 11th - Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865)
Feb 13th - Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname (1855-59)
Feb 14th - Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer
Feb 14th - John McNeil, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Feb 16th - Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1892
Feb 16th - Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer
Mar 2nd - George Alexander Macfarren, composer
Mar 4th - Wijnand J J Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked)
Mar 7th - Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time)
Mar 15th - John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858)
Mar 18th - Friedrich Hebbel, writer
Physician and Explorer David Livingstone (Mar 19th) Mar 19th - David Livingstone, Scotland, explorer (found by Stanley in Africa)
Mar 20th - Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High)
Mar 21st - James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
Mar 22nd - Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Mar 26th - Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
Mar 27th - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
Mar 29th - John Letcher, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1884
Apr 14th - Junius S Morgan, US, merchant/philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art)
Apr 17th - Henry Washington Benham, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1884
Apr 18th - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
Apr 23rd - Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates)
Apr 23rd - Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853)
May 5th - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
May 6th - Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
May 10th - Montgomery Blair, Franklin County Ky, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford)
May 12th - Johann Czerski, German chaplin
May 15th - Stephen Heller, composer
Composer Richard Wagner (May 22nd) May 22nd - Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman)
May 23rd - Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Jun 5th - Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer
Jun 6th - Israel Washburn, gov (Union), died in 1883
Jun 8th - David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1891
Jun 16th - Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
Jun 18th - Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian (Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti)
Jun 24th - Henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (Independent)
Jun 25th - William Hugh Keim, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Jul 7th - William Scott Ketchum, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
Jul 28th - Alberto Mazzucato, composer
Aug 5th - Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-general
Aug 5th - Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet
Aug 15th - Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic (d. 1891)
Aug 18th - Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1884
Aug 19th - William Henry Fry, composer
Aug 21st - Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
Aug 26th - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle of Guilder Tracks)
Aug 30th - Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
Sep 11th - Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Sep 13th - John Sedgwick, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Sep 28th - Anton Wallerstein, composer
Oct 8th - Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer
Oct 9th - John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63)
Composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct 10th) Oct 10th - Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto, First French Empire, Italian composer (La donna è mobile - Rigoletto), (d. 1901)
Oct 12th - Lyman Trumbull, MC (Union) died in 1896
Oct 17th - Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
Oct 23rd - Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
Oct 26th - Henry Thomas Smart, composer
Nov 13th - John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Nov 13th - Peter II Petrovic Njegos, poet/ruler of Montenegro (1830-51)
Nov 27th - Michele Puccini, composer
Nov 29th - Franz von Miklosich, Slovenian linguist (d. 1891)
Nov 30th - Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer
Nov 30th - Hermann Kurz, German author/poet
Nov 30th - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
Dec 2nd - Jacob Rosenhaim, composer
Dec 10th - Errico Petrella, composer
Dec 10th - Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
Dec 19th - Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist (ozone)
Dec 20th - Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, (Gov-Iowa)/US Sect of Interior (1881-82)
Dec 24th - Henry Wellington Greatorex, composer
Dec 25th - Milledge Luke Bonham, (Confederacy) died in 1890
Dec 29th - Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Mar 29th - John Tyler (23) later 10th US President, marries 1st wife Letitia Christian Tyler (22)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 44 of 44

Jan 3rd - Bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c. 1764)
Jan 6th - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
Jan 20th - C M Wieland, writer, dies at 79
Jan 23rd - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 73
Jan 28th - Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41
Feb 13th - Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
Feb 26th - Robert R Livingston, US diplomat (Decl of Independence), dies at 66
Apr 10th - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)
Apr 14th - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer, dies at 34
Apr 19th - Benjamin Rush, physician/abolotionist (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 67
Apr 27th - Zebulon M Pike, US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34
Apr 28th - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
Apr 29th - Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55
May 1st - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768)
May 23rd - Geraud Duroc, French general (b. 1772)
Jun 6th - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
Jun 17th - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (b. 1726)
Jun 28th - Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prus min of War (1807-10), dies in battle
Jul 6th - Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
Jul 13th - Johann Friedrich Peter, composer, dies at 67
Jul 29th - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
Aug 1st - Carl Stenborg, composer, dies at 60
Aug 11th - Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
Aug 19th - Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54
Aug 19th - Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61
Aug 20th - Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74
Aug 23rd - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
Aug 26th - Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer, dies at 63
Aug 26th - Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21
Sep 2nd - Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
Sep 13th - Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
Sep 24th - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer, dies at 72
Sep 25th - Braz Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 61
Oct 5th - Etienne Ozi, composer, dies at 58
Oct 5th - Tecumseh, US Shawnee-chief/English Gen (Battle of Thames), dies
Oct 19th - Josef Poniatovski, Polish gen/marshal of France, dies in battle
Oct 22nd - August Harder, composer, dies at 38
Nov 21st - William Russell, composer, dies at 36
Nov 22nd - Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer, dies at 63
Nov 29th - Giambattista Bodoni, Ital stamp cutter/publisher (bodoni), dies at 73
Nov 30th - Friedrich August Baumbach, composer, dies at 60
Dec 1st - Ferdinando Bertoni, composer, dies at 88
Dec 19th - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
Dec 24th - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)