Mar 19 The birth of Dr David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and opponent of slave trade

Mar 18 David Melville, Newport RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas

Mar 08 First concerto of Royal Philharmonic

Mar 10 Six companies of the 104th Regiment of Foot, plus 4th New Brunswick Regiment, start 52-day march overland to the St. Lawrence in winter; travel on snowshoes, pulling supplies on toboggans, lose only one man, arriving in Kingston April 12

Mar 25 USS Essex takes Neryeda, first capture by U.S. Navy in Pacific

Mar 03 Office of Surgeon General of the US army is established

Aug 14 British warship Pelican attacks and captures US war brigantine Argus

Sep 10 Comm Oliver H Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie

Sep 10 The Americans defeat the British naval forces in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

Feb 27 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail

Feb 27 First federal vaccination legislation enacted

Feb 23 First US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA

Feb 22 Lt. Col. 'Red George' Macdonnell c1779-1871 leads 400 Prescott regular militia and Glengarry Light Infantry in a pre-dawn raid on US Fort Ogdensburg across the frozen St. Lawrence

Feb 22 Ft. Presentation, NY is captured by the British

Apr 27 Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed

Apr 29 Rubber is patented

Apr 27 U.S. Navy and Army forces capture York (now Toronto), Canada

Nov 06 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain

Dec 29 British soldiers burn the town of Buffalo, New York, during this War of 1812 battle.

Dec 18 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812

Dec 29 Major General Phineas Riall attacks villages of Black Rock and Buffalo with a party of Canadian militia and Indians to get revenge on burning of Newark and Queenston on Dec. 10.

May 22 The birth of Richard Wagner, German operatic composer

May 27 American joint operations against Fort George, Canada

Jul 07 John Macarthur ships 36 bales of wool from New South Wales to England

Jul 24 Sailing Master Elijah Mix attempts to blow up British warship Plantagenet with a torpedo near Cape Henry, Virginia.

Jul 31 British invade Plattsburgh, NY

Jul 18 U.S. Frigate President captures British Daphne, Eliza Swan, Alert and Lion.

Jun 01 Captain James Lawrence, commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, coins the phrase "Don't give up the ship," during a losing battle with a British frigate.

Jun 24 Battle of Beaver Dam-British &Indian forces defeat US forces

Jun 01 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"

Jun 06 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)

Jan 11 The first pineapples planted in Hawaii

Jan 22 Major General Henry Proctor leads 500 soldiers and militia, with Tecumseh's 800 Indians from Amherstburg, in a counterattack across the frozen Detroit River after his defeat 4 days earlier. He recaptures the River Raison post, and defeats 900 US troops led by Brig. Gen. James Winchester, capturing Winchester and 500 Americans

Jan 14 Gideon Hawley becomes first state school superintendent in US (NY)

Jan 14 US Frigate Chesapeake captures British brig Hero

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