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War of 1812: The Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit.

On October 5, in the year 1813, War of 1812: The Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit. This event is recorded as a Historical Events event in the history of October 5, one of 443 recorded events on this date across all of history.

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. The United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by the United States Senate on 17 February 1815.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on October 5, 1813 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Historical Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 2 Wikipedia articles.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 25 September 2026.

On This Date in History 443

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Notable Deaths 2015 Oct 5 Chantal Akerman, Belgian-French actress, director, and producer (born 1950)
Notable Deaths 2015 Oct 5 Joker Arroyo, Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1927)
Notable Deaths 2015 Oct 5 Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher, author, and activist (born 1915)
Notable Deaths 2015 Oct 5 Henning Mankell, Swedish author and playwright (born 1948)
Notable Deaths 2014 Oct 5 David Chavchavadze, English-American CIA officer and author (born 1924)
Notable Deaths 2014 Oct 5 Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (born 1959)
Notable Deaths 2014 Oct 5 Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2014 Oct 5 Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (born 1917)
Selected Events 2014 Oct 5 Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi sustained fatal head injuries in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, dying the…
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Notable Deaths 2013 Oct 5 Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and academic (born 1916)
Notable Deaths 2013 Oct 5 Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2013 Oct 5 Yakkun Sakurazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1976)
Notable Deaths 2012 Oct 5 Keith Campbell, English biologist and academic (born 1954)
Notable Deaths 2012 Oct 5 Vojin Dimitrijević, Croatian-Serbian lawyer and activist (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 2012 Oct 5 James W. Holley III, American dentist and politician (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2012 Oct 5 Edvard Mirzoyan, Georgian-Armenian composer and educator (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2012 Oct 5 Claude Pinoteau, French director and screenwriter (born 1925)
Historical Events 2011 Oct 5 In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
Notable Deaths 2011 Oct 5 Derrick Bell, American academic and scholar (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2011 Oct 5 Bert Jansch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)
Notable Deaths 2011 Oct 5 Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-founder of Apple Inc. (born 1955)
Notable Deaths 2011 Oct 5 Charles Napier, American actor and singer (born 1936)
Notable Deaths 2011 Oct 5 Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2011 Oct 5 Gökşin Sipahioğlu, Turkish photographer and journalist (born 1926)
Selected Events 2011 Oct 5 Two Chinese cargo ships were attacked and their crews murdered on a stretch of the Mekong River in far northern…
Notable Deaths 2010 Oct 5 Bernard Clavel, French journalist and author (born 1923)
Notable Deaths 2010 Oct 5 Mary Leona Gage, American model and actress, Miss USA 1957 (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2010 Oct 5 Steve Lee, Swiss singer-songwriter (born 1963)
Notable Births 2006 Oct 5 Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor
Notable Deaths 2006 Oct 5 Antonio Peña, Mexican wrestling promoter, founded Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (born 1953)
Notable Deaths 2004 Oct 5 Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2004 Oct 5 William H. Dobelle, American biologist and academic (born 1941)
Notable Deaths 2004 Oct 5 Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
Notable Deaths 2003 Oct 5 Dan Snyder, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1978)
Notable Deaths 2003 Oct 5 Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist, director, and producer (born 1957)
Notable Deaths 2002 Oct 5 Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1920)
Notable Deaths 2001 Oct 5 Mike Mansfield, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (born 1903)
Historical Events 2000 Oct 5 Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
Notable Deaths 2000 Oct 5 Johanna Döbereiner, Brazilian agronomist (born 1924)
Notable Deaths 2000 Oct 5 Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (born 1976)
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Historical Events 1999 Oct 5 The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.
Notable Births 1999 Oct 5 Washington Sundar, Indian cricketer
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Notable Births 1998 Oct 5 Exequiel Palacios, Argentine footballer

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