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* 1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem " Defence of Fort McHenry ", later to be the lyrics of " The Star-Spangled Banner ".
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* 1814 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration ; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
* 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.
* 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D. C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House is set ablaze, though not burned to the ground ; as well as several other buildings.
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.
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 – 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 and Francis
At the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, the rockets fired on Fort McHenry by the rocket vessel HMS Erebus were the source of the rockets ' red glare described by Francis Scott Key in The Star-Spangled Banner.
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.
On September 3, 1814, following the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Francis Scott Key and John Stuart Skinner set sail from Baltimore aboard the ship HMS Minden, flying a flag of truce on a mission approved by President James Madison.
However, after his ultimate defeat in 1814, the Congress of Vienna handed Veneto over to the Austrian Empire, the successor state to the Holy Roman Empire still ruled by Francis.
In 1814, when French rule in Italy ended ( but after the death of Duke Ercole ), Modena was returned to his daughter Mary Beatrice and her son, Archduke Francis of Austria-Este.
His only daughter, Maria Beatrice d ' Este, married Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria-Este, son of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria ; and in 1814 their eldest son, Francis IV, received back the estates of the Este.
In the summer of 1814, Emperor Francis sent Count Adam Albert von Neipperg to accompany Marie Louise to the spa town of Aix-les-Bains to prevent her from joining Napoleon on Elba.
Notable residents included poet and women's-rights activist Sarah Tittle ( Barrett ) Bolton ( 1814 – 1893 ), and Indianapolis financier Francis McClintock Churchman ( 1833 – 1891 ).
Waltham was the site of the first fully integrated textile factory in America, built by Francis Cabot Lowell in 1814, and by the 19th century the Charles River was one of the most industrialized areas in the United States.
The foundation-stone of the building, which is built after a design of Francis Johnston, was laid by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth, on 12 August 1814, attended by the Post-Masters-General, Charles O ' Neill, 1st Earl O ' Neill and Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse.
* Francis Phippen, Authentic memoirs of Edmund Kean, containing a specimen of his talent at composition ( London, 1814 )
In 1810 Cunningham went to London, where he worked as a parliamentary reporter and journalist till 1814, when he became clerk of the works in the studio of the sculptor, Francis Chantrey, a post he kept until Chantrey's death in 1841.
* George Grant Francis ( 1814 – 1822, b. Swansea ) historian who wrote Original Charters and Materials for a History of Neath ( 1845 );
* William Francis Patrick Napier, History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814.
In 1814 he spent nine months in botanizing excursions in France, Switzerland and northern Italy, and in the following year he married Maria Dawson Turner, the eldest daughter of Dawson Turner, banker, of Great Yarmouth, and sister-in-law of Francis Palgrave.
In 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem " The Defence of Fort McHenry " ( later re-titled, " The Star-Spangled Banner "), which came to be sung to the tune of Stafford Smith's " Anacreon ".
* The " bombs bursting in air " recorded by Francis Scott Key at the Battle of Baltimore in 1814 were provided by the Volcano, Meteor, Devastation, Aetna, and a new Terror.
In 1814, after the fall of Napoleon, Cicognara was patronized by Francis I of Austria, and between 1815 and 1820 published, under the auspices of that sovereign, his Fabbriche più cospicue di Venezia, two superb folios, containing some 150 plates.
Around 1814, Francis Cohen began contributing to the Edinburgh Review ; he made the acquaintance of the banker Dawson Turner and his daughter Elizabeth in 1819, offering to correct the proofs of Mr Turner's book on Normandy.
He served with the army under the command of General Francis de Rottenburg on the frontier of Lower Canada until the summer of 1814, when he joined the army of Lieutenant-general Sir George Prevost in the United States, and took part in the campaign of the autumn of 1814.
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