1813 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1813?
- January 28, 1813 – Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
- February 20, 1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
- April 27, 1813 – War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- May 20, 1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
- June 1, 1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: “Don't give up the ship!”
- June 6, 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
- June 22, 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
- August 10, 1813 – Instituto Nacional, is founded by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera. It is Chile’s oldest and most prestigious school. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincit, which means “Work conquers all things”.
- August 19, 1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina’s Second Triumvirate.
- August 23, 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
- August 26, 1813 – War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
- August 30, 1813 – Creek War – Fort Mims massacre: Creek “Red Sticks” kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
- August 31, 1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town. Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
- September 10, 1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- September 30, 1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
- October 5, 1813 – Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
- October 8, 1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bayern and Austria.
- October 16, 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
- October 19, 1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
- December 29, 1813 – British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812.
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