Today in History for Year 1814

Months in Year 1814: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 61 of 61

Jan 1st - Field marshal Blucher's troops cross the Rhine at Kaub
Jan 2nd - Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"
Jan 14th - King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel
Jan 22nd - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC
Jan 28th - Stendahl's 1st book is published
Jan 31st - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
Feb 1st - Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
Feb 1st - Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200
Feb 10th - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
Feb 11th - Norway's independence proclaimed
Feb 17th - Battle of Mormans.
Feb 18th - The Battle of Montereau occurs.
Feb 27th - Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres
Mar 7th - Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
Mar 20th - Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands
Mar 25th - Netherlands Bank established
Mar 27th - Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama
Mar 30th - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris after defeating Napoleon.
Mar 30th - Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
US President & General Andrew Jackson Mar 31st - Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
Apr 4th - Napoleon abdicates for the first time in favour of his son.
Apr 5th - Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes
Apr 9th - Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance
Apr 11th - Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba
Apr 26th - King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
May 4th - Bourbon reign restored in France
May 4th - King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
May 5th - British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
May 11th - Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh
May 17th - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
May 17th - Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
May 17th - Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
May 30th - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.
Jun 22nd - 1st match at the present Lord's, MCC v Herefordshire
Jul 3rd - Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
Jul 5th - Americans defeat British & Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
Jul 7th - Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
Jul 18th - British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
Jul 25th - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
Jul 25th - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
Aug 1st - Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat
Aug 7th - Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits
Aug 8th - Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
Aug 13th - Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
Aug 13th - Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
Aug 24th - British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks
Aug 25th - British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
Sep 5th - -15] Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russ out of E Prussia
Sep 11th - Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British
Sep 12th - Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812
Sep 14th - Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner"
Sep 21st - "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem
Oct 1st - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
Oct 17th - London Beer Flood occurs in London killing nine.
Oct 23rd - 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)
Oct 29th - "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched
Nov 1st - Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
Nov 7th - 1st sitting of States-general in Hague
Nov 28th - The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
Dec 24th - Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed
Dec 27th - Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 82 of 82

Jan 1st - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (d. 1864)
Jan 8th - Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist
Jan 8th - Thomas Green, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Jan 10th - Aubrey de Vere, Irish writer (Victorian Observer)
Jan 11th - James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget)
Jan 11th - Richard Griffith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Jan 12th - Jones Mitchell Withers, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
Jan 14th - Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer
Jan 17th - Ellen Wood, English author (East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey)
Jan 21st - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer
Jan 24th - Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector
Jan 25th - Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor (Union), died in 1899
Jan 26th - Rufus King, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
Jan 27th - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
Jan 30th - Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian glass painter
Feb 9th - Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library
Feb 18th - Samuel Fenton Cary, U. S. Congressman (d. 1900)
Feb 21st - Nicolo Gabrielli, composer
Feb 22nd - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
Feb 25th - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS) [OS]
Feb 26th - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)
Mar 3rd - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer
Mar 5th - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
Mar 8th - Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)
Mar 9th - Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet/painter/prof of Kiev [NS]
Mar 16th - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
Mar 22nd - Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)
Mar 24th - Galen Clark, US, naturalist/discovered Mariposa Grove
Apr 2nd - Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning, Brigadier General (Confederate Army
Apr 2nd - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879)
Apr 3rd - Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (d. 1901)
Apr 4th - John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
Apr 15th - John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep)
Apr 19th - Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
Apr 21st - Beni Egressy, composer
Apr 24th - Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire
Apr 24th - Vincente F Lopez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje)
May 6th - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist/composer
May 8th - Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, anarchist
May 9th - Adolph von Henselt, composer
May 14th - Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
May 30th - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
Jun 8th - Charles Reade, England, novelist (Cloister & Hearth)
Jun 19th - Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter
Jun 22nd - James Henry Lane, MC (Union), died in 1866 [or Jul 28 1833]
Jun 25th - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
Jul 2nd - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer
Jul 3rd - Janis Cimze, composer
Jul 6th - Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
Inventor/Industrialist Samuel Colt (Jul 19th) Jul 19th - Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862)
Jul 20th - Ivan S Gagarin, Russian theologist
Aug 1st - Maxcy Gregg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Aug 8th - Esther Hobart Morris, suffragist/anti-slavery activist
Aug 10th - Jacob Edvard Gille, composer
Aug 10th - John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1881
Aug 10th - William Lowndes Yancey, MC (Confederacy), died in 1863
Aug 10th - Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890)
Aug 13th - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
Aug 14th - Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Aug 23rd - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (d. 1877)
Aug 28th - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
Sep 2nd - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian
Sep 6th - George Cartier, (C) Canadian co-PM (1858-62)
Sep 8th - Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874)
Sep 13th - Nicolas Beets, [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura=
Sep 17th - Stefano Ronchetti-Molnteviti, composer
Oct 3rd - Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet/writer (Demon & other poems)
Oct 11th - Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888)
Oct 25th - Louis CPR van Orleans, French duke of Nemours
Oct 27th - Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891)
Nov 6th - Adolphe Sax, Belgium musician/inventor (saxophone)
Nov 8th - Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku)
Nov 13th - Joseph Hooker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
Nov 14th - Michael Kelly Lawler, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), dies in 1882
Nov 15th - Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Nov 17th - Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
Nov 22nd - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
Nov 25th - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
Dec 1st - August Rockel, composer
Dec 19th - Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, US Secretary of War (1861-65)
Dec 25th - Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/founder (Coop of Welfare of the People)
Dec 27th - James Henry Carleton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 36 of 36

Jan 5th - Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer, dies at 72
Jan 21st - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)
Jan 23rd - Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf, composer, dies at 52
Jan 27th - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher, dies
Jan 27th - Philip Astley, theatre manager, dies
Jan 29th - Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre), dies at 51
Feb 3rd - Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75
Feb 13th - Augustin Holler, composer, dies at 69
Mar 26th - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, namesake of the guillotine (b. 1738)
Apr 1st - Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87
Apr 12th - Charles Burney, English music historian (b. 1726)
May 6th - George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64
May 7th - Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer, dies at 79
May 12th - Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83
May 26th - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, officially named the Guillotine (b. 1789)
May 29th - Josephine, empress of France (1804-14), dies
Jun 7th - Robert Jasper van der de Capellen, mister of Marsch, dies at 71
Jun 8th - Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer, dies at 48
Jun 15th - Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84
Jun 27th - Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer, dies at 61
Jul 7th - Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71
Jul 19th - Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40
Jul 25th - Charles Dibdin, composer, dies at 69
Aug 21st - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
Aug 31st - Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
Sep 1st - Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer, dies at 53
Sep 22nd - A W Iffland, writer, dies
Oct 1st - Jakob I van Przysucha, Polish hassidic leader, dies
Oct 16th - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34
Nov 1st - Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
Nov 18th - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
Nov 23rd - Elbridge Gerry, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 70
Dec 2nd - Marquis de Sade, writer, dies at 74
Dec 9th - Jose Angel Lamas, composer, dies at 39
Dec 13th - Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgium fieldmarshal/author, dies at 79
Dec 19th - Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump