1814 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1814?
- January 31, 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
- February 17, 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormans.
- February 18, 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
- March 7, 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
- March 21, 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
- March 30, 1814 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
- May 17, 1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
- July 5, 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
- July 25, 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Lundy’s Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall’s British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown’s Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
- August 9, 1814 – Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
- August 24, 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
- September 11, 1814 – War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war.
- September 12, 1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
- September 13, 1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
- September 17, 1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”, later to be the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
- October 1, 1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe’s political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
- October 2, 1814 – Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera.
- November 1, 1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
- December 14, 1814 – War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
- December 27, 1814 – War of 1812: The American schooner USS Carolina is destroyed. It was 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.
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