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1814

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
August 24: British troops capture Washington D.C., capital of the United States, and burn the U.S. Capitol and the White House after President Madison and members of Congress flee.
April 11: France's Emperor Napoleon, conqueror of much of Europe, abdicates by signing the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814).
1814 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1814
MDCCCXIV
Ab urbe condita2567
Armenian calendar1263
ԹՎ ՌՄԿԳ
Assyrian calendar6564
Balinese saka calendar1735–1736
Bengali calendar1221
Berber calendar2764
British Regnal year54 Geo. 3 – 55 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2358
Burmese calendar1176
Byzantine calendar7322–7323
Chinese calendar癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
4511 or 4304
    — to —
甲戌年 (Wood Dog)
4512 or 4305
Coptic calendar1530–1531
Discordian calendar2980
Ethiopian calendar1806–1807
Hebrew calendar5574–5575
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1870–1871
 - Shaka Samvat1735–1736
 - Kali Yuga4914–4915
Holocene calendar11814
Igbo calendar814–815
Iranian calendar1192–1193
Islamic calendar1229–1230
Japanese calendarBunka 11
(文化11年)
Javanese calendar1740–1741
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4147
Minguo calendar98 before ROC
民前98年
Nanakshahi calendar346
Thai solar calendar2356–2357
Tibetan calendar阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
1940 or 1559 or 787
    — to —
阳木狗年
(male Wood-Dog)
1941 or 1560 or 788
January 29: Battle of Brienne

1814 (MDCCCXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1814th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 814th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1814, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January

February 1: Cagsawa Church is destroyed by eruption of Mount Mayon.

February

March

March 9: The schooner Enterprise returns from the Caribbean.

April–June

April 12

July–September

September 13: Bombardment of Fort McHenry
November 1: Anglo-Nepalese war begins.
November 1: Anglo-Nepalese war begins

October–December

Date unknown

Births

January–June

Heinrich Geissler

July–December

Anders Jonas Ångström
Adolphe Sax

Date unknown

Deaths

January–June

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

July–December

Matthew Flinders
Marquis de Sade

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