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.
- March 4, 1814 – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
- March 7, 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
- 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 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
- 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.
- 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 24, 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
- August 26, 1814 – Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
- September 11, 1814 – War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war.
- October 1, 1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe’s political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
- 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.
- 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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