1814 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1814?
- January 31, 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
- February 1, 1814 – Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
- February 18, 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
- March 4, 1814 – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
- 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 6, 1814 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restorationanniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. (Rule by the Bourbons is delayed a few weeks, though allies held most key locales of France.)
- 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 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
- 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 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.
- September 11, 1814 – War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war.
- 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 17, 1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
- 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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