1813
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1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
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Events
- March 17 – Through a newspaper, the Prussian king Frederick William III of Prussia calls for resistance against the Napoleonic occupation
- April 27 – War of 1812: Battle of York – United States troops raid, destroy, but do not hold the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Ontario).
- May 2 – Napoleon wins the Battle of Lützen
- May 20-May 21 – Napoleon wins the Battle of Bautzen
- May 27 – War of 1812: In Canada, United States forces capture Fort George.
- June 6 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
- June 21 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vittoria – A British, Spanish, and Portuguese force of 78000 with 96 guns under Wellington defeats a French force of 58000 with 153 guns under Joseph Bonaparte to end the Peninsular War.
- July 5 – War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
- August 19 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
- August 26-August 27 – Napoleon wins the Battle of Dresden
- August 29-August 30 – Napoleon's troops defeated at Kulm
- September – Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of Britain
- September 10 – War of 1812: Oliver Perry defeats a British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie
- October 5 – War of 1812: William Henry Harrison defeats the British at the Battle of the Thames, killing native leader Tecumseh
- October 16-October 19 – Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Leipzig
- October 24-November 5 – Persia and Russia sign the Gulistan Treaty of 1813 at the end of the first Russo-Persian Wars (1804–1813) by which Persia (Iran) loses all its territories to the north of Aras River to the Russians.
- October 25 – War of 1812: Charles de Salaberry defeats an American invasion at the Battle of Chateauguay
- November 11 – War of 1812: the Americans are defeated at the Battle of Crysler's Farm
- November 21 – An independent government is restored in the Netherlands.
- December 29 – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York
- Russian troops reach and take Berlin without a fight after the French garrison evacuated the city.
- Mathieu Orfila publishes his groundbreaking Trait des poisons, formalizing the field of toxicology.
- George Hamilton-Gordon serves as ambassador extraordinaire in Vienna.
Ongoing events
Births
- January 19 – Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)
- January 21 – John C. Frémont, American soldier and explorer (d. 1890)
- February 11 – Otto Ludwig, German writer
- March 18 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (d. 1863)
- March 19 – David Livingstone, English missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
- March 21 – James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader (d. 1856)
- March 27 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)
- April 23 – Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate (d. 1861)
- May 5 – Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
- May 21 – Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish clergyman (d. 1843)
- May 22 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
- June 24 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887)
- October 10 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
- October 17 – Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
- December 13 – David Spangler Kaufman, U.S. Congressman from Texas (d. 1851)
- Abbas I, Pasha of Egypt (d. 1854)
- John Miley, American Methodist theologian (d. 1895)
Deaths
- January 20 – Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet and writer (b. 1733)
- February 26 – Robert Linvingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)
- April 10 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician (b. 1746)
- April 27 – Zebulon Pike, American general (b. 1779)
- April 28 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
- June 6 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (b. 1739)
- July 29 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French Napoleonic general (suicide) (b. 1771)
- August 11 – Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
- August 23 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
- October 5 – Tecumseh, Shawnee leader
- November 12 – Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer (b. 1735)
- December 24 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
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