1812 - What happened in 1812 ?
February 1812
Sunday 02:
Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, along the California coast.
Friday 07:
The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
Tuesday 11:
Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry gerrymanders for the first time.
Thursday 27:
Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
March 1812
Thursday 26:
An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
April 1812
Saturday 04:
U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
Thursday 30:
The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
May 1812
Monday 11:
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
June 1812
Monday 01:
War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
Thursday 04:
Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the territory previously known by that name was renamed the Missouri Territory.
Thursday 18:
War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Wednesday 24:
Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins.
July 1812
Sunday 12:
War of 1812: The United States invades Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
Wednesday 22:
British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
August 1812
Wednesday 05:
War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
Sunday 16:
War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
Wednesday 19:
War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia.
September 1812
Monday 07:
Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
Monday 14:
The Russian army burns Moscow to prevent Napoléon from capturing it.
Tuesday 15:
The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
October 1812
Friday 09:
War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
Wednesday 14:
Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
Monday 19:
Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
Friday 23:
Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he was now the commandant of Paris. De Malet was executed on October 29.
Saturday 24:
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
December 1812
Saturday 26:
Delaware and Chesapeake blockaded during the War of 1812
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