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.
