* 1814 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration ; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.

* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

* 1814 – American Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.

* 1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.

* 1752 – Maria Carolina of Austria ( d. 1814 )

* 1814 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist ( d. 1874 )

* Haliotis cracherodii Leach, 1814 – the black abalone

* Haliotis rubra Leach, 1814 – the ruber abalone

** Haliotis rubra rubra Leach, 1814 – synonym: Haliotis ancile the shield abalone

* Haliotis scalaris ( Leach, 1814 ) – the staircase abalone or ridged ear abalone

* 1814 – Esther Morris, American jurist ( d. 1902 )

* 1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop ( d. 1877 )

In European Spain, or just " the Peninsula " in the jargon of the Spains, after economic and human ravages of the Napoleonic Invasion ( 1808 ) and the War of Liberation ( 1808 – 1814 ) there ensued the aforementioned Latinamerican conflicts, in addition to the Carlist wars, the liberal-conservative wars, and the bleeding of people and resources into Latin America.

* 1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor ( d. 1879 )

* 1814 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish authoer ( d. 1873 )

* 1814 – Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian politician and writer ( d. 1887 )

* 1814 – Josif Pančić, Serbian botanist ( d. 1888 )

Their first child, Maria ( 1814 – 1825 ), was born after they moved to Hartshead.

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

* 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist ( d. 1875 )

* 1814 – Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé ( d. 1890 )

* 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.

* 1814 – Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist ( d. 1906 )

He was crowned Emperor of the French and ruled from 1804 – 1814, 1815.

Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend ( 1814 ), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans ( 1815 ).

He was one of the British representatives at the Congress of Châtillon in February 1814, and at the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in May of that year.

* 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18. 00 ; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.

* 1814 – James Paget, British surgeon and pathologist ( d. 1899 )

* 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.

The war went very badly, and when the British burned the capitol building on August 24, 1814, Madison removed John Armstrong as Secretary of War and turned to Monroe for help, appointing him Secretary of War on September 27.

The Battle of Lake Champlain, also known as the Battle of Plattsburgh, fought on September 11, 1814, ended the final British invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812.

* 1814 – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.

The British launched their attack on the Nepali forces at Nalapani, the western most point of Nepal's frontier at the close of 1814.

Rivalry between Nepal and the British East India Company over the princely states bordering Nepal and India eventually led to the Anglo-Nepalese War ( 1814 – 16 ), in which Nepal suffered a complete rout.

* 1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.

* 1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.

During the War of 1812, in 1814, Silas Halsey lost his life while using a submarine in an unsuccessful attack on a British warship stationed in New London harbor.

After the British burned the Library of Congress in 1814 Jefferson offered to sell his collection of more than six thousand books to Congress for about four dollars a book.

During the prolonged Peninsular War from 1808 – 1814 some 300, 000 French troops were kept permanently occupied by, in addition to several hundred thousand Spanish, Portuguese and British regulars an enormous and sustained guerrilla insurgency — ultimately French deaths would amount to 300, 000 in the Peninsular War alone.

The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

The Duke of Wellington and his army of British and Portuguese gradually pushed the French out of Spain and in early 1814, as Napoleon was being driven back in the east by the Prussians, Austrians, and Russians, Wellington invaded southern France.

The British could devote few resources to the conflict until the fall of Napoleon in 1814.

Peace was agreed to at the end of 1814, but not before Andrew Jackson, unaware of this, won a great victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 ( news took several weeks to cross the Atlantic before the advent of steam ships ).

Not long after the completion of both wings, the Capitol was partially burned by the British on August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812.

In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior.

In 1814, during the War of 1812, the White House was set ablaze by British troops during the Burning of Washington, in retaliation for burning Upper Canada's Parliament Buildings in the Battle of York ; much of Washington was affected by these fires as well.

Some observers allege that most of these spoils were lost when a convoy of British ships led by HMS Fantome sank en route to Halifax off Prospect during a storm on the night of November 24, 1814, even though Fantome had no inolvement in that action.

The most famous episode was a series of British raids on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, including an attack on Washington that resulted in the British burning of the White House, the Capitol, the Navy Yard, and other public buildings, in the " Burning of Washington " in 1814.