1812 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1812?
- February 7, 1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
- February 11, 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry “gerrymanders” for the first time.
- February 27, 1812 – Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
- March 26, 1812 – An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
- April 4, 1812 – U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
- April 6, 1812 – British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
- 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 1, 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- August 11, 1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
- 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 3, 1812 – 24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
- September 7, 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino – Napoleon wins a Pyrrhic victory over the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
- September 13, 1812 – War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
- October 23, 1812 – Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.
- October 24, 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
- November 17, 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
- December 17, 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
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