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The Conference of Dresden was a May 1812 gathering of European leaders arranged by Napoleon I of France as part of his preparations for the invasion of Russia. It was intended as …
The Conference of Dresden began, an attempt by Napoleon to secure support for his planned invasion of Russia
The First French Empire declared war on Russian Empire on 22 June [O.S. 10 June] 1812, starting Napoleon's invasion two days later. The declaration of war was presented in a diplom…
France declared war on Russia, starting Napoleon's invasion two days later
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a global series of conflicts fought by a fluctuating array of European coalitions against the French First Republic (1803–1804) under the First…
Napoleonic Wars: Led by Napoleon, the French Grande Armée crossed the Neman, beginning their invasion of Russia
The War of 1812 was a conflict initiated by the United States against the United Kingdom and its allies fought mainly in North America and at sea during the wider Napoleonic Wars. …
War of 1812: Potawatomi warriors ambushed a United States Army convoy after it had evacuated Fort Dearborn (site…
The War of 1812 was a conflict initiated by the United States against the United Kingdom and its allies fought mainly in North America and at sea during the wider Napoleonic Wars. …
War of 1812: British troops and Mohawk warriors repelled an American invasion from across the Niagara River at the…
The Battle of Las Piedras was fought on May 18, 1811 as part of the Rio de la Plata war of independence. It was a resounding victory for the revolutionary forces, led by José Gerva…
Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José
The Carlton House Fête was hosted on 19 June 1811 by the Prince Regent, the future George IV, at his London residence Carlton House. Ostensibly held to honour the exiled Louis XVII…
The Carlton House Fête is held in London to celebrate the establishment of the Regency era
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the earl…
The Anglo-Portuguese army under Lord Wellington tries to halt a larger French army under Marshal Masséna marching to rel
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country located in the central region of South America. It borders Bolivia to the northwest and north, Brazil to the …
Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanis
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by the Iberian nations Spain and Portugal, along with the United Kingdom, against the invading and occupying forc…
Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom fight an inconclusive battle against the French at the Alb
The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations are a Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation in Canada. They live on ten reserves along the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Vancouver Island, British Colu…
Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally
Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor, commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo, was a Mexican Catholic p…
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City,…
Col. John Stevens, III was an American lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive, first steam-powered ferry, and first U.S. commercial ferry se…
The Juliana begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry in New York harbor.
Alson Smith Sherman served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1844–1845) as an Independent Democrat.
Alson Sherman, American merchant and politician, 8th Mayor of Chicago (died 1903)
Andreas Laskaratos was a satirical poet and writer from the Ionian island of Cefalonia, representative of the Heptanese school. He was excommunicated by the Greek Orthodox Church b…
Andreas Laskaratos, Greek satirical poet and writer (died 1901)
The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence is a document drafted and adopted by Venezuela on July 5, 1811, through which Venezuelans made the decision to separate from the Spanish …
The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence is adopted by a congress of the provinces.
David Thompson was a British fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native people as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer". Over Thompson's career, he travelled 90,000 k…
Explorer David Thompson posts a sign near what is now Sacajawea State Park in Washington state, claiming the Columbia…
The Jungfrau, at 4,158 m (13,642 ft) is one of the main summits of the Bernese Alps, located between the southern canton of Bern and the northern canton of Valais, halfway between …
First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
Agua Amarga is a silver deposit and defunct mining district in Chile's Atacama Region. It is located 30 km south of Vallenar. Agua Amarga was discovered in 1811 and its silver was …
The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the…
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1864–1872).
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (died 1893)
Chang Bunker and Eng Bunker were Siamese-American conjoined twin brothers whose fame propelled the expression "Siamese twins" to become synonymous for conjoined twins in general. T…
Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese-American showmen, the original conjoined twins (died 1874)
Alfred Domett was the fourth premier of New Zealand, a close friend of the poet Robert Browning and author of the epic poem Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea Day Dream. Born in Englan…
Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1887)
Giulia Grisi was an Italian opera singer. She performed widely in Europe, the United States and South America and was among the leading sopranos of the 19th century.
Giulia Grisi, Italian soprano (died 1869)
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne,, styled Earl of Lincoln before 1851, was a British politician and aristocrat. He sat in Parliament for South …
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, English politician (died 1864)