1814 - Wikipedia

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

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