Years: 1810 1811 1812 - 1813 - 1814 1815 1816

Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1813 in art 1813 in literature 1813 in science 1813 in music 1813 in sports List of state leaders in 1813 List of religious leaders in 1813

1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).

Contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

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-Autumn - series of victories of the Duke of Wellington (and others) over Napoleon Bonaparte
• 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.
• 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 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

• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Peninsular War/Sixth Coalition
• War of 1812 (1812-1815)

Births

• January 19 - Sir Henry Bessemer, inventor
• February 11 - Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright/critic.
• March 19 - David Livingstone, missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
• March 27 - Nathaniel Currier, illustrator
• May 21 - Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish divine (d. 1843)
• May 22 - Richard Wagner, German composer
• October 10 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer
• December 13 - David Spangler Kaufman, American politician, first Jewish Congressman from Texas (d. 1851)
• Abbas I - pasha of Egypt
• Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher

Deaths

• Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan
• April 27 - General Zebulon Pike
• April 28 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal, (b. 1745)
• June 6 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
• August 23 - Alexander Wilson, ornithologist
• October 5 - Tecumseh
• November 12 - Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer

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