Designed by Daniel Asher Alexander and constructed originally between 1806 and 1809 by local labour, to hold prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars, it was also used to hold American prisoners from the War of 1812.

A blue diamond with the same shape, size, and color as the Hope Diamond was recorded by John Francillon in the possession of the London diamond merchant Daniel Eliason in September 1812, the earliest point when the history of the Hope Diamond can be definitively fixed, although a second less definitive report suggests that the Hope Diamond's " authentic history " can only be traced back to 1830.

When the War of 1812 came to the Missouri Territory, Boone's sons Daniel Morgan Boone and Nathan Boone took part, but by that time Boone was too old for militia duty.

Appling County is named for Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Appling, a soldier in the War of 1812.

Instead, he settled in Shelby County, Kentucky, and fought in the Indian wars with Daniel Boone and served with Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.

While the list of those serving has not been preserved, among those who are known to have been in the Continental army were Thomas Thompson, Major Thomas Frothingham, Ebenezer Lane, Daniel Peck, David Arnold, Henry Wetby, Joseph Huntington, John Croat and Robert Burroughs: Among those serving in the War of 1812 were Peter Sipperly, Philip Snyder, Paul Wattenpaugh and Philip Lafite.

The original Peachtree Road began in 1812 at Fort Daniel located at Hog Mountain in present-day Gwinnett County and ran along the course of the trail to the Chattahoochee.

* Most Reverend Daniel Murray, DD ( Coadjutor to the Archbishop of Dublin ) ( 29 June 1812 )

Patterson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the second son of Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson, a War of 1812 U. S. Navy hero, and George Ann Pollock.

* Daniel Turner ( 1794 – 1850 ), United States Navy officer during the War of 1812.

* William Lee ( civil engineer ) ( 1812 – 1891 ), English bibliographer of Daniel Defoe

Of Holland's five daughters, two married two brothers, Bridget ( 1774-1844 ) to Daniel Craufurd ( lost at sea 1810 ) and Mary Frances Holland ( 1776-1842 ) to Major-General Robert Craufurd ( 1764 – 1812 ), commander of the Light Division during the Peninsular War.

Daniel H. Peterson, a colored clergyman ; embracing a period of time from the year 1812 to 1854, and including his visit to western Africa, 1854.

Notable former residents include sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey, who had a studio here at No. 24 in 1802, and physician David Daniel Davis, who lived at No. 12 from 1803 to 1812.

* 1775 – Daniel O ' Connell, Irish politician ( d. 1847 )

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1986 – Daniel Preussner, German rugby player

* 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer

* 1961 – Daniel House, American bass player and producer ( 10 Minute Warning and Skin Yard )

* 1979 – Daniel Browne, New Zealand rugby player

* 1956 – Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist

* 1994 – Daniel Gabori, Hungarian actor

* 1986 – Daniel Dickey, American comedian and writer

* 1945 – Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist ( d. 2011 )

* 1948 – Daniel Okrent, American writer and editor

* 1974 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician ( Broder Daniel )

* 1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor

* 1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer

* 1926 – Frank Daniel, Czech writer, director, and teacher ( d. 1996 )

* 1961 – Daniel Clowes, American cartoonist and screenwriter

* 1875 – Daniel Soubeyran, French rower ( d. 1959 )

* 1980 – Daniel Lloyd, English cyclist

* 1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer

* Daniel Boone ( November 2, 1734 October 22 – September 26, 1820 ) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

* 1952 – Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor

* 1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, American actor

* 1980 – Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor

* 1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, American jurist, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1860 )

* 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( b. 1660 )

The other major contributors were John Rogers Herbert, finishing in 1864 but having had some commissions cancelled, Charles West Cope who worked until 1869, Edward Matthew Ward until 1874, Edward Armitage, George Frederic Watts, John Callcott Horsley, John Tenniel and Daniel Maclise.

In 1864, Daniel Wilson, a Scotsman who had made a fortune installing gaslights throughout Paris, bought the château for his daughter.

Bynum details the expedition of Col. Robert Lowry into the area to address Confederate concerns about deserter collaboration with the Union Army, with reports such as that made on March 29, 1864 by Captain W. Wirt Thomason that the deserters were frequently in company of Yankees and warnings in early April by Daniel P. Logan that the deserter bands, " openly boasting of their being in communication with the Yankees ", were assembling in the area of Honey Island, adding that:

Daniel Rhodes eventually yielded, and Mark and Charlotte Augusta Hanna were married on September 27, 1864.

Daniel Waldo ( September 10, 1762 – July 30, 1864 ) was an American clergyman.

* Meissner ( né Meisner ), Carl Daniel Friedrich 1864.

In 1864, while praying at the Tomb of Saint Peter in Rome, Daniel was struck by an inspiration that led to the drawing up of his " Plan for the Rebirth of Africa ", a missionary project that can be summed up in an expression which is itself the indication of his boundless trust in the human and religious capacities of the African peoples: “ Save Africa through Africa ”.

Another Irish cleric, Archbishop Daniel Mannix ( 1864 – 1963 ) of Melbourne, who was a controversial voice against conscription during World War I and against British Empire policy in Ireland.

Statue of Immanuel Kant, first exhibited by Christian Daniel Rauch in 1864.

Tregelles also wrote Heads of Hebrew Grammar ( 1852 ), translated Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon ( 1846, 1857 ) from Latin, and was the author of a little work on the Jansenists ( 1851 ) and of various works in exposition of his special eschatological views including Remarks on the Prophetic Visions of Daniel ( 1852, new ed., 1864 ) and The Hope of Christ's Second Coming ( 1864 ).

Daniel Mannix ( 4 March 1864 – 6 November 1963 ) was an Irish-born Australian Catholic bishop.

* Mister Maloga: Daniel Matthews and his Mission, Murray River, 1864 – 1902 ( 1976 )

* Daniel Waldo ( 1762 – 1864 ), veteran of the American Revolutionary War, missionary and U. S. House clergyman

Christian Hassenjager, the first of many German settlers, who was to suggest the name of Hanover ; Abram Z. Gottwals, a missionary with the Evangelical Church ; Duncan Campbell, who became postmaster ; Edward Goodeve, who had one of the first stores ; entrepreneurs such as Henry Proctor Adams who built the dam and the first mill and drew up plans for a new proposed village – a man of vision who could foresee the growth of the future ; Dr. Landerkin, our first doctor, who let his horse decide which turns to take and ended up in Hanover … and finally, Daniel Knechtel, an eager, hard-working man who arrived in 1864 with a bag of tools on his back and began making furniture in a small barn behind his house.

In 1864 Wood ’ s new house was completed and the John Wood Mansion was given to his oldest son, Daniel.

In June 1864 he was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention of the National Union Party where he placed the name of Daniel S. Dickinson in contention for the Vice Presidential nomination on the ticket with President Lincoln.

In 1864 Fisk became a stockbroker in New York, and was employed by Daniel Drew as a buyer.

* Sir Daniel Gooch, Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent 1837 – 1864

Daniel Bashiel Warner ( April 19, 1815 – December 1, 1880 ) served as the 3rd President of Liberia from 1864 to 1868.