1814 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1814?
- January 29, 1814 – France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
- February 10, 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
- February 17, 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormans.
- March 7, 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
- 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.
- April 4, 1814 – Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
- 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.)
- May 4, 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
- 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 5, 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
- July 13, 1814 – The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
- 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.
- October 2, 1814 – Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera.
- 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.
- November 28, 1814 – 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.
- 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.
- 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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