Historical Events In 1813
Monday, 09 February 2026
Jan 04 Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59) 


Jan 05 Thomas Neville Waul, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 


Jan 11 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21) 


Jan 11 The inaugural pineapples planted in Hawaii 


Jan 12 US Frigate Chesapeake captures British Volunteer. 


Jan 14 Gideon Hawley is recorded as becoming 1st state school superintendent in US (NY). 


Jan 14 Gideon Hawley is recorded as becoming inaugural state school superintendent in US (NY). 


Jan 14 US Frigate Chesapeake captures British brig Hero 


Jan 15 James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation). 


Jan 18 Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire) 


Jan 19 Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine). 


Jan 20 C M Wieland, writer, dies at 79 


Jan 20 Jacon Gartner Lauman, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1867. 


Jan 21 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111) 


Jan 22 Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada. 


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 23 Franz Commer, composer. 


Jan 23 George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 73. 


Jan 26 Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876 


Jan 28 Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41. 


Jan 28 Pride and Prejudice is inaugural published in the United Kingdom. 


Jan 31 Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist 


Feb 01 Caragea's plague in Romania killing 60000 people. 


Feb 01 Malta plague epidemic in Malta killing 4500 people 


Feb 08 Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist 


Feb 13 Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname (1855-59) 


Feb 14 Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer. 


Feb 16 Joseph Reid Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1892. 


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


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 23 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass 


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


Feb 26 Robert R Livingston, US diplomat (Decl of Independence), dies at 66. 


Feb 27 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted. 


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