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In 1813, John Williams, a missionary on the Endeavour ( not the same ship as Cook's ), made the first official sighting of the island Rarotonga.
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In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.
One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.
* 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
His father, Noah Sr. ( 1722 – 1813 ), was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster ; his mother Mercy ( née Steele ; 1727 – 1794 ) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.
* April 4 – John Andrews, American clergyman, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, considered " America's first scholar " ( d. 1813 )
Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).
** Most famously HMS Terror ( 1813 ), sister ship of HMS Erebus and involved in Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition through the Arctic
On September 24, 1813, Crockett joined the Second Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Riflemen for an initial term of 60 days and served under Colonel John Coffee in the Creek War, marching south into present day Alabama and taking an active part in the fighting.
* Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Mill Hill ( c. 1736 – 1813 ), British politician, MP for City of London, 1793 – 1806
Thomas Lockey ( 1660 – 1665 ) was regarded as not fit for the post, John Hudson ( 1701 – 1719 ) has been described as " negligent if not incapable ", and John Price ( 1768 – 1813 ) was accused by a contemporary scholar of " a regular and constant neglect of his duty ".
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The AME Church is not related to either the Union American Methodist Episcopal Church ( which was founded in Delaware by Peter Spencer in 1813 ), or the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ( which was founded in New York by Peter Williams ).
Williams and his volunteers invaded Florida in early February 1813, and destroyed several Seminole villages, burning over 300 houses, and stealing a large number of horses and other livestock.
In June 1813, Williams was commissioned in the U. S. Army as a colonel, and ordered to recruit and organize the 39th U. S. Infantry for the purpose of engaging the hostile Red Stick Creeks.
* Edward Williams ( minister ) ( 1750 – 1813 ), Welsh nonconformist minister, theological writer, and tutor
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* Ludwig Jacoby, ( 1813 – 1874 ), born in Altstrelitz, an author and Methodist clergyman, commissioned as a missionary to St. Louis, Missouri, by the founder of the German Methodist Church in America, William Nast ( 1807 – 1899 ).
David Livingstone ( 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873 ) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa.
Évariste Régis Huc, or Abbé Huc, ( 1813 – 1860 ) was a French missionary traveller, famous for his accounts of China, Tartary and Tibet.
* David Livingstone 1813 – 1873, Scottish missionary explorer of Africa, best known bearer of the name and namesake of numerous places
When William Milne ( missionary ) ( 1785 – 1822, another missionary sent by the London Missionary Society ) arrived at Guangzhou in 1813 and worked with Morrison on translation of the Bible, he also came to know Liang Fa.
Across the road is the little mud house in which the first missionary, Charles Pacalt of the London Missionary Society, lived after arriving in 1813.
* Erastus Wentworth ( 1813 — 1886 ), an educator, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and a missionary to China
Famous LMS missionaries included Robert Morrison ( missionary ) ( 1782-1834 ) who went to China in 1807, John Abbs ( 1810-1888 ) who went to Travancore, India in 1837, the sinologist James Legge ( 1815-1897 ), and David Livingstone ( 1813 – 1873 ) who went to South Africa in 1840.
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The years 1812 and 1813 saw him in Germany and France again, but on this visit to Berlin he did not seek out the philosophers as he had on his first journey.
Elizabeth Garrett was born on 9 June 1836 in London, the second of eleven children of Newson Garrett ( 1812 – 1893 ), from Leiston, Suffolk, and his wife, Louisa née Dunnell ( 1813 – 1903 ), from London.
In addition, from 1813 on, recipes for what can be described as French fries occur in popular American cookbooks.
* 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
* 1813 – War of 1812: three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
The congress, which met on September 30, 1813, was certainly the first of its kind in Latin America.
The Bürger Brauerei recruited the Bavarian brewer Josef Groll ( 1813 – 1887 ) who, using new techniques and paler malts, presented his first batch of modern pilsner on 5 October 1842.
Initially known appropriately as the Achteck ( Octagon ), on 15 September 1814 it was renamed Leipziger Platz after the site of Prussia's final decisive defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Leipzig, 16 – 19 October 1813, which brought to an end the Wars of Liberation that had been going on since 1806.
She made a profit of £ 140 ( almost £ 5, 000 in 2008 currency ) on the first edition, which sold all 750 printed copies by July 1813.
A major American success came in 1813, when the American Navy destroyed the British fleet on Lake Erie, and forced the British and their American Indian allies to retreat back toward Niagara.
Year 1813 ( MDCCCXIII ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
In 1813 he was named ' Sovereign Prince ' of the Netherlands, and proclaimed himself King of the Netherlands and Duke of Luxembourg on 16 March 1815.
After having been invited by the Driemanschap ( Triumvirate ) of 1813, on 30 November 1813 William disembarked HMS Warrior and landed at Scheveningen beach, only a few metres from the place where he had left the country with his father eighteen years previously, and on 6 December the provisional government offered him the title of King.
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