* 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.

Thomas Jefferson writes in a 1814 letter to Thomas Law:

Elbridge Thomas Gerry (; July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814 ) was an American statesman and diplomat.

* Thomas Mayo Brewer ( 1814 – 1880 ), American naturalist

Michael Neill, editor of the Oxford Shakespeare edition, notes that the earliest critical references to Othello's colour, ( Thomas Rymer's 1693 critique of the play, and the 1709 engraving in Nicholas Rowe's edition of Shakespeare ), assume him to be Sub-Saharan, while the earliest known North African interpretation was not until Edmund Kean's production of 1814.

Major advances in the decoding were: recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text ( 1799 ); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names ( 1802 ); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic ( Thomas Young, 1814 ); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words ( Champollion, 1822 – 1824 ).

Thus, when Thomas Young, foreign secretary of the Royal Society of London, wrote to him about the stone in 1814, Silvestre de Sacy suggested in reply that in attempting to read the hieroglyphic text, Young might look for cartouches that ought to contain Greek names and try to identify phonetic characters in them.

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

* 1808 – 1814 Thomas Browne

* September 9 – Thomas Coke, first American Methodist Bishop ( d. 1814 )

In Boston, Lincolnshire Banks was Recorder for the town and a portrait painted in 1814 by Thomas Phillips RA was commissioned by the Corporation of Boston, as a tribute to one whose ' judicious and active exertions improved and enriched this borough and neighbourhood '.

His father, Richard Carte ( 1808 – 1891 ), was a flautist, and his mother was the former Eliza Jones ( 1814 – 1885 ); they had eloped, to the disappointment of her father, Thomas Jones, a clergyman.

Hunt-Morgan House, completed in 1814, served as residence for the first millionaire west of the Appalachians ( John Wesley Hunt ), a Confederate General ( John Hunt Morgan ), and Kentucky's only Nobel Prize winner ( Thomas Hunt Morgan )

* Thomas Coke ( bishop ) ( 1747 – 1814 ), the first Methodist Bishop

As a result of the two Thomas Lincolns living in Kentucky over a 25-year period between 1789 and 1814, area residents in both Tennessee and Kentucky often confuse Hananiah's son as the father of President Lincoln and Hananiah Lincoln as the paternal grandfather of President Lincoln.

* Thomas Mayo Brewer, ( 1814 – 80 ), an American ornithologist, wrote most of the biographical sketches in the History of North American Birds, by Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway ( 1874 – 84 ).

Her husband Dr Thomas Edwards, took the initiative in buying extra land to make an access from Brixton Hill in 1814 and laying out two new roads Lower Tulse Hill Road ( now known simply as Tulse Hill ) and Upper Tulse Hill Road ( now Upper Tulse Hill ) before 1821.

In 1813 and 1814 Jeffersonville was briefly the de facto capital of the Indiana Territory, as then-governor Thomas Posey disliked then-capital Corydon, and wanting to be closer to his personal physician in Louisville, decided to live in Jeffersonville.

Covington was established in 1814 when John Gano, Richard Gano, and Thomas Carneal purchased on the west side of the Licking River at its confluence with the Ohio River, referred to as " the Point ," from Thomas Kennedy for $ 50, 000.

* William Henry Appleton ( 1814 – 1899 ), Daniel Appleton's son, publisher of Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Herbert Spencer, and John Stuart Mill

Harrisville was platted by John Wells, Thomas Gray, Store Hutchinson, and Robert Dutton on October 19, 1814.

Various proposals for improvements near Wisbech were made, notably in 1814 by John Rennie and again in 1821 by Thomas Telford, but all were opposed by Wisbech Corporation.

* Birthplace of Thomas Osborne Davis ( 1814 – 1845 ), nationalist, politician, author, poet and patriot.