1814

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s

Years: 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 - 1814 - 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819

Events

• January 14 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden
• 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 18 - Battle of Montereau
• March 9 - the third USS Enterprise reaches Wilmington, North Carolina, returning from the Caribbean.
• March 10 - Napoleon I of France 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 Creek Native Americans at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• April 4 or April 6 - Napoleon abdicates
• May 17 - Norway's new constitution
• May 17 - Occupation of Monaco changes from the hands of the French to Austrian
• May 30 - The First Treaty of Paris is singed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I of France is exiled to Elba on the same day.
• July 5 - War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa[?] - American Major General Jacob Brown[?] defeats British General Phineas Riall[?] at Chippewa, Ontario[?].
• August 13 - signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814
• September 11 - USS Ticonderoga is victorious in the Battle of Lake Champlain[?]
• December 24 - peace treaty ends War of 1812 between US and Britain

• George Stephenson designs his first locomotive Blutcher
• Alexandria, Virginia is threatened by the British fleet and pays $100,000 for immunity from attack.
• John Abernethy appointed lecturer in anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons
• John Keats leaves apprenticeship to become a student at a local hospital
• Sir Walter Scott writes Waverley

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1814 in literature:

Births

• January 27 - Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect
• May 30 - Michael Bakunin, anarchist (+ 1876)
• August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer
• November 6 - Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone

Deaths

• March 28 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin[?], inventor of the guillotine
• May 29 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France
• November 23 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America, died in office
• December 2 - Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade