March 25th 1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

May 5th 1811 – In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portugese army holds the field at the end of the day.

1811 – The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.

September 3rd, 1811 - Czar Alexander I established the Finnish office of intendant to supervise the planning of government buildings.

1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.

1811 – The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes struck the Midwestern United States and made the Mississippi River appear to run backward.

February 7th 1812 - Charles Dickens was born in Portsea, Hampshire

1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.

1812 – Peninsular War: After a three-week siege, the Anglo-Portuguese Army, under the Earl of Wellington captured Badajoz, Spain and forced the surrender of the French garrison.

1812 – In the lobby of the British House of Commons, Spencer Perceval became the first, and to date only, British Prime Minister to be assassinated.

October 23rd 1812 – Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.

October 24th 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.

February 3rd 1813 – José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.

February 20th 1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.

May 11th 1813 – 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.

May 20th 1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.

May 23rd 1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").

May 31st 1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.

June 6th 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.

June 6th,1944 (D-Day)
That happened in 1944, which was 69 years ago, not 200.

That happened in 1944, which was 69 years ago, not 200.


Sorry about that Phillip.

July 11th 1833 – Noongar warrior Yagan, wanted for leading attacks on white colonists in Western Australia, was killed, becoming a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia by colonial settlers.

August 23rd 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.

August 30th 1813 – First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

August 31st 1813 – Peninsular War: At the Battle of San Marcial, the Spanish Army of Galicia under Manuel Alberto Freire turned back Nicolas Soult's last major offensive against Arthur Wellesley's allied army.
   

September 10th 1813 – War of 1812: American forces led by Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British on Lake Erie near Put-in-Bay, Ohio.
   

October 19th 1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.

October 26th 1813 – War of 1812: A combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.

November 11th 1813 – War of 1812: A British–Canadian force repelled an American attack in the Battle of Crysler's Farm, forcing the latter to give up their attempt to capture Montreal.

January 29th 1814 – France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.

March 7th 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.

March 27th 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

April 4th 1814 – Napoleon abdicates for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French.

April 11th 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau was signed, ending the War of the Sixth Coalition, and forcing Napoleon to abdicate as ruler of France and sending him into exile on Elba.

May 4th 1814 – Ferdinand VII abolished the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism.

May 18th 1814 - In Philadelphia, the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions was established -- the first national organization of Baptists in the U.S. It was later called the Triennial Convention because it met every three years.

May 30th 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I is exiled to Elba.

July 3rd 1814 - Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada

July 5th 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.

July 24th 1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.

July 25th 1814 – War of 1812: In present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario, the United States and Great Britain engaged in Battle of Lundy's Lane, one of the deadliest ever fought on Canadian soil.

I think today (and tomorrow) mark the 200-year anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore.

The events inspired Francis Scott Key to write a poem, titled "Defence of Fort McHenry". Some of you Americans might actually know the words to that poem by heart... ::) ;)

I think today (and tomorrow) mark the 200-year anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore.

The events inspired Francis Scott Key to write a poem, titled "Defence of Fort McHenry". Some of you Americans might actually know the words to that poem by heart... ::) ;)


Not that it was FSK's melody, but it still proves a bit of a problem for some when it comes to singing it - starts off okay, but then these high notes start appearing!

1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.

February 6th 1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.

1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.

1815 – Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.

1815 – Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the leaders of the Kingdom of Kandy.

1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.

May 30th 1815 – The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.

June 1st 1815 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.

June 9th 1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set. Also, Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.

June 16th 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.

June 16th 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
My my!!

June 18th 1815 – War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo in present-day Belgium.

July 15th 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.

August 1st 1715 – Introduced during a time of civil disturbance in Great Britain, the Riot Act came into force, authorising authorities to declare any group of twelve or more people to be unlawfully assembled.

August 24th 1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.

February 12th 1816 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.

March 10th 1816 – Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.

April 10th 1816 – The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.

June 15th 1816 – At the Villa Diodati in the village of Cologny, Switzerland, Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests — Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori — and challenges each guest to write a ghost story, which culminates in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing an unfinished vampire novel Fragment of a Novel and the poem Darkness.

June 19th 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

July 28th 1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).

August 14, 1816: The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

September 5th 1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").

September 15th 1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar

October 21st 1816 – The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings, the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.

November 19th 1816 – Warsaw University is established.

December 30th 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.

March 8th 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

April 15th 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

May 15th 1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

July 4th 1817 – In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.

July 19th 1817 – Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai.

September 22nd 1817 - John Quincy Adams becomes US Secretary of State.

October 30th 1817 - The independent government of Venezuela was established by Simon Bolivar.

November 3rd 1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.

February 12th 1818 – Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.

February 12th, 1818

Chile gains independence from Spain.

April 4th 1818 – The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).

May 7th 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.

From yesterday:

December 3rd 1818 - Illinois was admitted as the 21st state of the union.

February 7th 1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.

March 15th 1819 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Académie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.

May 22nd 1819 – SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

May 24th 1819 – Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born in Kensington Palace, London. She inherited the throne at the age of 18 and became Queen Victoria.

May 25th 1819 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.

July 3rd 1819 – The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.

August 6th 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

August 7th 1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.

It was 200 years ago today, when the Scottish inventor James Watt, died at the age of 83 from an unknown cause. He was he that improved on the Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

January 28th 1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.

January 29th 1820 - Britain's King George III died insane at Windsor Castle.

February 1820

Fashion was less fancy, but still extravagant!

February 1820

Fashion was less fancy, but still extravagant!
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March 3rd 1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.

March 15th 1820 - Maine was admitted as the 23rd state of the Union.

March 25th 1820 - Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack

April 8th 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.

April 12th 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

November 17th 1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)

February 24th 1821 – Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with the Plan of Iguala.

March 23rd 1821 – Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.

March 25th 1821 – Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).

April 1st 1821 - In the Battle of Zapatos de Gelatina, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, win a decisive victory over Spain,

April 10th 1821: Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus. :(

May 5th 1821 – Emperor Napoleon died in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.

May 8th 1821 - The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn, during the Greek War of Independence.

May 12th 1821 – The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi.

May 26th 1821 – Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels.

June 12th 1821 - Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.

June 18th 1821 - Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischutz" was first performed in Berlin.

March 30th 1822 - The Florida Territory is created in the United States.

September 7th 1822 – Dom Pedro I declared Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.

September 27th 1822 – Jean-François Champollion officially informs the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in France that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.

October 12th 1822 – Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.

December 9th 1822 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence.