1812 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1812?
- January 1, 1812 – The Bishop of Durham, Shute Barrington, orders troops from Durham Castle to break up a miners strike in Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham
- January 19, 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
- February 7, 1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
- February 27, 1812 – Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
- March 19, 1812 – The Cádiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
- March 26, 1812 – An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
- April 30, 1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
- May 11, 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
- May 27, 1812 – Bolivian War of Independence: In Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fight against the Spanish army.
- June 4, 1812 – Following Louisiana’s admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
- June 23, 1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
- June 24, 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
- July 18, 1812 – The Treaties of Orebro end both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
- August 24, 1812 – Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
- September 14, 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
- September 15, 1812 – The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
- October 13, 1812 – War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights – As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
- October 19, 1812 – Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
- November 3, 1812 – Napoleon’s armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma
- December 14, 1812 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
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