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1813 Calendar

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•  January 28, 1813 – Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
•  February 3, 1813 – José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
•  May 31, 1813 – In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
•  June 1, 1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: “Don't give up the ship!”
•  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 27, 1813 – French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
•  September 10, 1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
•  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 19, 1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.

•  January 21, 1813 – John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (d. 1890)
•  January 23, 1813 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895)
•  January 25, 1813 – James Marion Sims, American physician (d. 1883)
•  April 18, 1813 – James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
•  May 5, 1813 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
•  May 10, 1813 – Montgomery Blair, American politician (d. 1883)
•  May 22, 1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
•  June 20, 1813 – Joseph Autran, French poet (d. 1877)
•  June 24, 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887)
•  August 30, 1813 – Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (d. 1862)