Historical Events in 1813

"Pride and Prejudice"

Jan 28 Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is published by Thomas Egerton in the United Kingdom

Feb 23 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Massachusetts
Feb 27 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
Feb 27 US Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
Mar 3 Office of Surgeon General of the US Army forms
Mar 8 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic
Mar 18 David Melville, Newport, Rhode Island, patents apparatus for making coal gas
Mar 20 Lady Hester Stanhope sets out for ancient city of Palmyra, the first western woman to visit
Mar 25 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific by the frigate Essex
Apr 27 Americans under General Zebulon Pike capture York (now Toronto) from British regulars, militia and Ojibwe natives forcing a British withdrawal to Kingston; Pike is killed
Apr 29 Ist US Rubber patent granted to Jacob F. Hummel
May 11 In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.

El Libertador

May 23 South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")

Military and Political Leader Simón Bolívar

May 27 Americans capture Fort George, Canada
May 31 In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains
Jun 1 Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
Jun 6 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ontario)
Jun 21 Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria results in a victory for a Spanish, Portuguese and British alliance against the French
Jun 24 Battle of Beaver Dams - British and native forces defeat US forces (War of 1812)
Jul 5 War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin
Jul 31 British invade Plattsburgh, NY

Appointment of Interest

Aug 12 Robert Southey is appointed British Poet Laureate by King George III

King of Great Britain and Ireland George III

Aug 14 British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
Aug 19 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate
Aug 23 Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French

Battle of Dresden

Aug 27 Battle of Dresden; Napoleon defeats Austrians

Aug 30 Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
Sep 4 First US religious newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
Sep 7 "Uncle Sam" 1st used to refer to the US, by Troy Post of New York
Sep 10 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie
Sep 30 Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla

Battle of the Thames

Oct 5 Battle of the Thames; American forces under General William Henry Harrison defeat Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies led by Henry Procter near Chatham, Upper Canada

Native American Leader of the Shawnee Tecumseh

General and 9th US President William Henry Harrison

Oct 8 Treaty of Ried between Bavaria & Austria
Oct 16 Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia
Oct 20 German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
Oct 23 The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
Nov 2 Treaty of Fulda signed in Germany after Battle of Leipzig
Nov 3 US troops under General Coffee annihilate the Red Stick Creek Indian village at Tallasseehatchee, Alabama
Nov 6 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain

Jackson Repels Creek Attack

Nov 9 During Creek War General Andrew Jackson, responding to White Stick Creek Indian plea at Fort Leslie, drives off attacking force of Red Stick Creek Indians at Talladega, Alabama