The metric system is still spreading
Napoleon authorizes the usage of Mesures usuelles, the basis of the metric system (Feb 12), the capital of Finland is moved from Turku to Helsinki (Apr 8), the War of 1812 between United States, Canada and the United Kingdom begins (Jun 18), Napoleon’s troops enter Moscow, which is deliberately set on fire by Muscovites (Sep 14), the unsuccessful French invasion of Russia comes to an end (Dec 14), the first volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales is published in Germany (Dec 20) - and all these fine people were born:
1812-xxxx Charley Parkhurst* (b Charlene Parkhurst) living as male from age 12/stagecoach driver/rancher - Sharon, VT USA (1879/c.67)
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1812-0102 Antonín Lhota* Czech painter/art teacher - Kuttenberg, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire (1905/93)
1812-0106 Melchora Aquino* Filipina revolutionary hero - Balintawak, Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines (1919/107)
1812-0113 Victor de Laprade* poet/ critic - Montbrison, French Empire (1883/71)
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1812-0207 Charles Dickens* author/ social critic - Landport, Hampshire England (1870/58)
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1812-0215 Charles Lewis Tiffany* jewelry trader/founder of New York City’s Tiffany & Co - Killingly, CT USA (1902/90)
1812-0218 Nils Johan Berlin* chemist/physician - Härnösand, Sweden (1891/79)
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1812-0229 James Milne Wilson* engineer/ politician/to Tasmania at age 17 - Banff, Scotland (1880/68)
1812-0301 Augustus Pugin* architect/designer/artist - London, England (1852/40)
1812-0306 Aaron Lufkin Dennison* watchmaker/businessman - Freeport, District of Maine (1895/82)
1812-0322 Stephen Pearl Andrews* individualist anarchist/ abolitionist/ author - Templeton, MA USA (1886/74)
1812-0422 Maria Kratman* merchant in Turku/writer - Oulu, GD of Finland (1884/72)
1812-0426 Alfred Krupp* steel manufacturer/inventor - Essen, Germany (1887/75)
1812-0427 William W. Snow* entrepreneur/politician - Heath, MA USA (1886/74)
1812-0427 Friedrich von Flotow* composer - Teutendorf, Germany (1883/70)
1812-0506 Martin Delany* abolitionist/physician/writer - Charles Town, VA USA (1885/72)
1812-0507 Robert Browning* poet/playwright - Camberwell, London, England (1889/77)
1812-0520 Gustaf Mankell* Swedish organist/composer/music teacher - Christianfeld, Denmark (1880/67)
1812-0609 Johan Gottfried Galle* astronomer - Papsthaus, Radis, Germany (1910/98)
1812-0625 Simon Parviainen* merchant/ industrialist/ship owner - Karjala, GD of Finland (1877/65)
1812-0627 John Pyke Hullah* composer/ teacher of music - Worcester, England (1884/71)
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1812-0702 Nathaniel de Rothschild* banker/winemaker - London, England (1870/57)
1812-0712 John Graham Bell* taxidermist/taught taxidermy to Theodore Roosevelt - USA (1899/87)
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1812-0813 Carl Rahl* painter - Vienna, Austrian Empire (1865/52)
1812-0825 Nikolay Zinin* organic chemist - Shusha, Russian Empire (1880/67)
1812-0827 Bertalan Szemere* poet/ nationalist/politician/PM - Vatta, Kingdom of Hungary (1869/56)
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1812-0908 Natalja Puškina* (b Gontšarova) wife of Aleksandr Pushkin - Russian Empire (1863/51)
1812-0918 Herschel V. Johnson* politician/ governor - Burke County, GA USA (1880/67)
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1812-1012 Ascanio Sobrero* Italian chemist - Casale Monferrato (1888/75)
1812-1020 Austin Flint I* cardiologist - Petersham, MA USA (1886/73)
1812-1114 Aleardo Aleardi* (b Gaetano Maria) poet - Verona, Kingdom of Italy (1878/65)
1812-1119 Edmond Jurien de La Gravière* admiral/author - Brest, French Empire (1892/79)
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1812-1208 Henry Varnum Poor* financial analyst - Andover, District of Maine (1905/92)
1812-1217 Vilhelm Petersen* landscape painter - Copenhagen, Denmark (1880/67)
1812-1217 Carl Johan Tawaststjerna* officer in the Russian army in Finland - Stockhom, Sweden (1874/61)
1812-1223 Samuel Smiles* writer/ government reformer - Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (1904/91)
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