1814 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1814?
- February 1, 1814 – Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
- February 10, 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
- February 18, 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
- March 27, 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
- March 30, 1814 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
- April 4, 1814 – Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
- April 11, 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
- May 4, 1814 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
- May 17, 1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
- May 30, 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to Elba.
- July 24, 1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown’s American invaders.
- August 9, 1814 – Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
- August 13, 1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London.
- 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 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.
- December 14, 1814 – War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
- December 24, 1814 – The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812.
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