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1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
January 14 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in exchange for west Pomerania , as part of the Treaty of Kiel
January 29 - French army of Emperor Napoleon I wins the Battle of Brienne
January 31 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
February - Congress of Chatillon - see George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
February 1 - Mayon Volcano , in the Philippines , erupts, killing around 1,200 people; most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano
February 11 - Norway 's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union
February 14 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Vauchamps
February 18 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Montereau
March 7 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Craonne
March 9 - the USS Enterprise reaches Wilmington, North Carolina, returning from the Caribbean.
March 10 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France
March 27 - War of 1812 : In northern Alabama , United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend .
March 31 - Anti-Napoleonic troops occupy Paris
April 4 or April 6 - Emperor Napoleon abdicates.
April 10 - the Duke of Wellington wins the Battle of Toulouse
May 3 - Duke of Provence, future Louis XVIII of France returns to Paris
May 5 - British-American War (War of 1812) : The British attack Fort Ontario at Oswego, New York .
May 17 - Norway 's new constitution signed at Eidsvoll
May 17 - Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian hands
May 30 - The First Treaty of Paris is signed returning France 's borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I of France is exiled to Elba on the same day.
July 5 - War of 1812 : Battle of Chippewa - American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario .
July 24 - War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara Falls, Ontario to halt Jacob Brown 's American invaders.
July 25 - War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls, Ontario for General Riall's British and Canadian force, and bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown 's Americans commences at 18.00; Americans retreat to Fort Erie .
August 13 - signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814
August 24 - War of 1812 : British troops burn Washington, DC , The Burning of Washington .
August 28 - Alexandria, Virginia offers surrender to the British fleet without a fight.
September 11 - USS Ticonderoga is victorious in the Battle of Lake Champlain
September 14 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner .
November 28 - London The Times newspaper becomes the first to be printed on a steam-powered press.
December 24 - peace treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812 between United States and Britain .
Ongoing events
Births
January 27 - Eugene Viollet-le-Duc , French architect (b. 1879 )
April 3 - Lorenzo Snow , president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1901 )
April 21 - Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts , English philanthropist (d. 1906 )
May 30 - Mikhail Bakunin , Russian anarchist (d. 1876 )
August 8 - Esther Morris , American suffragist and judge (d. 1902 )
August 10 - Henri Nestlé , German-born Swiss chocolate magnate (d. 1890 )
August 13 - Anders Jonas Ångström , Swedish physicist (d. 1874 )
August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu , Irish writer (d. 1873 )
September 2 - Ernst Curtius , German archaeologist and historian (d. 1896 )
September 8 - Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg , French writer, historian and specialist in Mesoamerican studies (d. 1874 )
October 4 - Jean-François Millet , French painter (d. 1875 )
October 15 - Mikhail Lermontov , Russian writer (d. 1841 )
November 6 - Adolphe Sax , Belgian instrument maker and inventor (d. 1894 )
Táhirih , Persian Bahá'í heroine and early figurine of women's emancipation
Deaths
January 27 - Philip Astley , English father of the modern circus (b. 1742 )
March 28 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin , Frrench inventor of the guillotine (b. 1838 )
May 29 - Josephine de Beauharnais , Empress of France (b. 1763 )
July 12 - William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe , British General who was Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the American Revolutionary War
July 19 - Captain Matthew Flinders , English explorer of the coasts of Australia (b. 1774 )
August 21 - Benjamin Thompson , American physicist and inventor (b. 1753 )
August 31 - Arthur Phillip , British admiral and first governor of New South Wales (b. 1738 )
September 8 - Queen Marie Caroline of Austria , consort of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies , and de facto ruler (b. 1752 )
October 19 - Mercy Otis Warren , American playwright (b. 1728 )
November 23 - Elbridge Gerry , Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744 )
December 2 - Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade , French writer (b. 1740 )
December 13 - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne , Austrian field marshal (b. 1735 )
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