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General Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans in 1814[/caption]
In the year 1814, the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom goes on all year long (Jan), Denmark cedes Norway into personal union with Sweden in exchange for west Pomerania (Jan 4), Norway’s independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union (Feb 11), Napoleonic Wars are coming to an end (Apr 10) and Napoleon is exiled to Elba (May 30), inspired by the French Gendarmerie. the Carabinieri is established in the Kingdom of Sardinia (Jul 13), British troops occupy Washington D.C. (Aug 24), the War of 1812 formally ends (Dec 24), but the Battle of New Orleans goes on till the next year - and all these fine people were born:
1814-0101 Hong Xiuquan* 洪秀全 revolutionary leader - Hua County, China (1864/50) 1814-0127 Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc* architect - Paris, France (1879/65) 1814-0129 Georg Wallgren* physician/politician - Lapinjärvi, GD of Finland (1889/75) 1814-0218 Samuel Fenton Cary* congressman/temperance movement leader - Cincinnati, OH USA (1900/86) 1814-0220 1814-0227 Samuel Kleinschmidt* German-Danish missionary linguist/teacher - Lichtenau, Greenland (1886/71) 1814-0309 John Evans* physician/politician/ Governor of the Territory of Colorado - Wayneville, OH USA (1897/83) 1814-0309 Taras Shevchenko* poet/ folklorist/ethnographer - Moryntsi, Kiev, Russian Empire (1861/47) 1814-0310 Alexander Caulfield Anderson* British-American fur-trader/explorer of British Columbia/to Canada at age 17 - Calcutta, India (1884/70) 1814-0317 Kamehameha III* third King of the Kingdom of Hawai’i/balancing between Western modernization and keeping his nation intact - Keauhou Bat, Kona, Hawai’i Islands (1854/41) 1814-0325 Erkki Antti Juhonpieti* Finnish religious leader (Laestadianism) - Pajala, Sweden (1900/86) 1814-0327 Charles Mackay* journalist/ author/songwriter - Perth, Scotland (1889/75) 1814-0403 Lorenzo Snow* Mormon leader - Mantua, OH USA (1901/87) 1814-0406 Miklós Ybl* architect - Székesfehérvár, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (1891/76) 1814-0507 Henriette Hansen* actress/opera singer/ballet dancer - Christiania, Norway (1892/78) 1814-0526 Wilhelm Engerth* Austrian architect/engineer - Pleß, Prussian Silesia (1884/70) 1814-0701 1814-0703 Ferdinand Didrichsen* botanist/physicist - Copenhagen, Denmark (1887/72) 1814-0710 1814-0711 Louis Melsens* physicist/ chemist - Leuven, Belgium (1886/71) 1814-0719 Samuel Colt* inventor/ industrialist/founder of Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company - Hartford, CT USA (1862/47) 1814-0720 1814-0730 Johann Georg Halske* master mechanic/ entrepreneur - Hamburg, Germany (1890/75) 1814-0801 1814-0808 Esther Hobart Morris* the first woman justice of the peace in the United States - Spencer, NY USA (1902/87) 1814-0810 Henri Nestlé* German-Swiss confectioner/founder of Nestlé - Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (1890/75) 1814-0810 William Lowndes Yancey* journalist/ politician/orator - Warren County, GA USA (1863/48) 1814-0813 Anders Ångström* physicist/one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy - Medelpad, Sweden (1874/59) 1814-0814 Adolph Tidemand* painter - Mandal, Norway (1876/61) 1814-0820 Raffaele Piria* Italian chemist - Scilla, Calabria (1865/50) 1814-0823 James Roosevelt Bayley* prelate of the Catholic Church/Archbishop of Baltimore - New York, NY USA (1877/63) 1814-0828 Sheridan Le Fanu* writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels & horror fiction - Dublin, Ireland (1873/58) 1814-0902 Ernst Curtius* German archaeologist/historian/museum director - Lübeck (1896/81) 1814-0903 James Joseph Sylvester* mathematician - London, England (1897/82) 1814-0907 William Butterfield* Gothic Revival architect - London, England (1900/85) 1814-1001 Josefina Deland* feminist/ writer/teacher in French - Stockholm, Sweden (1900/85) 1814-1004 Jean Francois Millet* painter - Gruchy, Normandy (1875/60) 1814-1010 1814-1014 Facundo Bacardi* Spanish-Cuban businessman/founder of the Bacardi rum distillery/to Cuba at age 15 - Barcelona, Catalonia (1886/71) 1814-1020 1814-1031 1814-1101 1814-1106 Adolphe Sax* musician/inventor of saxophone- Dinant, First French Empire (1894/79) 1814-1120 1814-1125 Julius von Mayer* German physician/physicist/one of the founders of thermodynamics - Heilbronn (1878/63) 1814-1130 1814-1201 1814-1209 Golding Bird* physician/ kidney specialist - Whitby, Yorkshire, England (1854/39) 1814-1210 Abraham K. Allison* businessman/ politician/Governor of Florida - Jones County, GA USA (1893/78) 1814-1216 Iisakki Erkinpoika Latva** farmer/ father of Mikki Iisakinpoika Kivistö - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1857/42) 1814-1218 Sarah T. Bolton* poet/women’s rights activist - Newport Barracks, KY USA (1893/78) 1814-1219 Edwin Stanton* lawyer/politician/Secretary of War during most of the American Civil War - Steubenville, OH USA (1869/55) 1814-1231 1814-0 1814-0 1814-0 Updated 2025-0124 Helsinki Search for another year here