1814 Calendar
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1814 Historical Event(s)
January 14, 1814
– Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
January 29, 1814
– France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
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 10, 1814
– Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
May 4, 1814
– Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
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.
September 14, 1814
– The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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.
Who Were Born On 1814?
February 9, 1814
– Samuel Jones Tilden, 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)
April 3, 1814
– Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) (d. 1901)
May 3, 1814
– Sir Adams George Archibald, Canadian Father of the Confederation (d. 1892)
August 13, 1814
– Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
September 6, 1814
– Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
September 8, 1814
– Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874)
October 4, 1814
– Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
October 17, 1814
– Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian writer and professor (d. 1888)
November 6, 1814
– Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d. 1894)
November 25, 1814
– Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)