1814
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
Years: 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 - 1814 - 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819
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 11 - Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union
- March 9 - the third USS Enterprise reaches Wilmington, North Carolina, returning from the Caribbean
- April 4 or April 6 - Napoleon abdicates
- May 17 - Norway's new constitution
- May 30 - Napoleon exiled to Elba
- 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
Births
- January 27 - Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect
- August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer
- November 6 - Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone
Deaths
- May 29 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France
- November 23 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America, died in office
- December 2 - Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade