* 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 )

* 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.

* 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.

Napoleon's son Napoleon François Charles Joseph ( 1811 – 1832 ) was created king of Rome ( 1811 – 1814 ) and was later styled Napoleon II by loyalists of the dynasty, though he only ruled for two weeks after his father's abdication.

* 1814 – Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Belgian-born Austrian field marshal ( b. 1735 )

* 1814 – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist ( d. 1876 )

Aside from Hoffmann and de la Motte Fouqué, three other important authors from the era were Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ( The Marble Statue, 1819 ), Ludwig Achim von Arnim ( Die Majoratsherren, 1819 ) and Adelbert von Chamisso ( Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, 1814 ).

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu ( 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873 ) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels.

* May 23 – Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, ( d. 1814 )

* October 31 – Joseph Hooker, American general ( b. 1814 )

* June 15 – Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer ( d. 1814 )

* April 20 – Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands ( d. 1814 )

Drawing from an 1814 paper by Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet | Everard Home showing the Ichthyosaurus platyodon skull found by Joseph Anning in 1811

* British Museum: Bronze portrait bust of Sir Joseph Banks by Anne Seymour Damer ( 1814 )

In 1814, Joseph Carpue successfully performed operative procedure on a British military officer who had lost his nose to the toxic effects of mercury treatments.

Later, the Sixth Coalition besieged Metz during the campaign of 1814 against the Napoleonic France, but was unable to take the city defended by General Pierre François Joseph Durutte and his army.

* 1814 — Joseph Fraunhofer systematically studies the dark lines in the solar spectrum

After the fall of Napoleon in 1814, Eugène retired to Munich and at the behest of his father-in-law Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, did not get involved with Napoleon and France again.

Joseph Drew, newspaper editor, steamboat proprietor, author and lecturer, was born in Deptford in 1814 ; Joseph's father of the same name worked in the Royal Navy Dockyard Service.

Among Baily's assistants were Musgrave Watson ( 1804 – 1847 ) and Joseph Durham ARA ( 1814 – 1877 ).

Charles-Joseph Lamoral, 7th Prince de Ligne in French, Charles Joseph Lamoral 7te Fürst von Ligne ( or Fürst de Ligne, in German ): ( 23 May 1735 – 13 December 1814 ) was a Field marshal and writer, and member of the princely family of Ligne.

Joseph Hooker ( November 13, 1814 – October 31, 1879 ) was a career United States Army officer, achieving the rank of major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

* Joseph Bramah ( 1748 – 1814 ), inventor, flushing water closet, Bramah lock and the beer pump

His contributions to the Academy exhibition of 1809 included a portrait of Sir Joseph Banks ( engraved by Niccolo Schiavonetti ), and to that of 1814, two portraits of Lord Byron ( engraved by Robert Graves, A. R. A ( 1798 – 1873 ).

His eldest son, Richard, married Marie Louise Pelline, the only daughter and heiress of Emeric Joseph Wolfgang Heribert, 1st Duc de Dalberg, a naturalised French noble of ancient German lineage who had entered the French service under Napoleon and represented Louis XVIII at the Congress of Vienna in 1814.

* President pro tempore: Joseph B. Varnum ( DR ), December 6, 1813 – February 3, 1814

** Joseph Kerr ( DR ), from December 10, 1814