1813 Calendar

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.

May 11, 1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.

June 1, 1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: “Don't give up the ship!”

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 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 26, 1813 – War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.

January 19, 1813 – Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)

January 26, 1813 – Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876)

February 11, 1813 – Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865)

April 23, 1813 – Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853)

May 22, 1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)

July 12, 1813 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist (d. 1878)

August 30, 1813 – Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (d. 1862)

September 30, 1813 – John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (d. 1893)

November 30, 1813 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)