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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 '.
* 1814 – Paul Moody of the Boston Manufacturing Company builds the first power loom in the United States ; beginnings of the " Waltham System "
Washington's estate sold the land after his death ; in 1814 Perryopolis, previously known as New Boston, was officially laid out using Washington's plans and named for Oliver Hazard Perry for his victory on Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
John Lothrop Motley ( Dorchester, near Boston, Massachusetts, April 15, 1814 and died May 29, 1877 ).
Joseph Stevens Buckminster, and was ordained pastor of the Brattle Street Church in Boston in 1814.
Samuel Allyne Otis ( son of James Otis, Sr., father of Harrison Gray Otis and brother of prominent revolutionary James Otis, Jr. and America's first female playwright Mercy Otis Warren ), a Delegate from Massachusetts ; born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., November 24, 1740 ; was graduated from Harvard College in 1759 ; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston ; member of the state house of representatives in 1776 ; member of the Board of War in 1776 ; collector of clothing for the Continental Army in 1777 ; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention ; again a member of the state house of representatives 1784-1787 and elected speaker of the house in 1784 ; Member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788 ; elected Secretary of the United States Senate on April 8, 1789, and served until his death in Washington, D. C., April 22, 1814 ; interment in Congressional Cemetery.
Elisha Haydon Collier ( 1788 – 1856 ) of Boston invented a flintlock revolver around 1814.
In these Boston years he also designed the Massachusetts State Prison ( 1803 ); Boylston Market ( 1810 ); University Hall for Harvard University ( 1813 – 1814 ); the Meeting House in Lancaster, Massachusetts ( 1815 – 17 ); and the Bulfinch Building of Massachusetts General Hospital ( 1818 ), its completion overseen by Alexander Parris, who was working in Bulfinch's office at the time the architect was summoned to Washington.
Additional parts of Dorchester were ceded to Quincy ( in 1792, 1814, 1819, and 1855 ) and portions of the original town of Dorchester became the separate towns of Hyde Park ( 1868 and later annexed to Boston in 1912 ), Milton ( 1662 ), and Stoughton ( 1726 ).
In his collection of Boston police force details, Edward Savage made notes of a reward offer on April 13, 1814: " The selectmen offer & 100 reward for arrest of grave-robbers at South Burying-Ground ".< ref >< cite > Savage, Edward H. " Police Records and Recollections, or Boston by Daylight and Gaslight: For Two Hundred and Forty Years.
In 1814 he arrived at Waltham, Massachusetts to supervise the setting up of machinery for a new cotton mill under Francis Cabot Lowell and The Boston Associates, a group of wealthy Boston investors who were seeking to develop an " integrated " cotton textile producing mill.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1814, was educated at Cincinnati College and Miami University, studied law in Cincinnati and in Connersville, Indiana, and was admitted to the bar in 1828.
He served as surveyor of the port of Boston from November 1814 until his death on May 30, 1817.
James Lovell ( October 31, 1737 – July 14, 1814 ) was an American educator and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts.
The Council Chamber has a grand and large portrait of Sir Joseph Banks commissioned by the Corporation of Boston in 1814 and painted by Thomas Phillips RA.
With the coming of peace, Williams returned to his native Boston and died there on 24 June 1814.
" The Dairyman's Daughter " was first issued in tract form in 1814 and that same year was published by the New England Tract Society in Boston.
This new firm, the first in the nation to place cotton-to-cloth production under one roof, was incorporated as the Boston Manufacturing Company in 1814.
File: Situationsplan von Boston ( Massachusetts ). jpg | A larger view of Boston in 1888 ( see also Colonial wide-area view, 1814 map, 1842 map, 1880 railroad map, 1903 map )
One of his earliest engineering works was the construction of Fort Strong ( 1814 ), a fort in Boston Harbor built for defense against the British.

1814 and Manufacturing
* 1814 – Samuel Colt, American inventor and industrialist, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company ( d. 1862 )

1814 and Company
Rivalry between Nepal and the British East India Company over the princely states bordering Nepal and India eventually led to the Anglo-Nepalese War ( 1814 – 16 ), in which Nepal suffered a complete rout.
* 1814 – Calcutta I, the earliest existing Arabic printed version, is published by the British East India Company.
The city is home to important archival repositories, including the Library Company of Philadelphia, established in 1731, and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, founded in 1814.
In 1814 Alexander Ross, a fur trader with the North West Company, seeking a viable route across the mountains, explored and crossed the northern Cascades between Fort Okanogan and Puget Sound.
In 1814, the York Haven Company, which built four large mills, prepared the town plan.
During the war in Nepal in 1814, the British failed to annex Nepal as part of the Empire but Army officers were impressed by the tenacity of the Gurkha soldiers and encouraged them to volunteer for the East India Company.
In the Gurkha War ( 1814 – 1816 ) between the Kingdom of Gorkha ( Nepal ) and the British East India Company the British were impressed by the Gorkhali soldiers which they called Gurkhas.
In 1814, like many others almost insolvent because of drought and depression, he tried to persuade Governor Macquarie to sanction a scheme for the exploitation of the interior by a large agricultural company similar to the later AustrafutiAgricultural Company of the 1820s.
In 1814, the Adams South Village Cotton Manufacture Company opened.
* Whitehorne, Joseph, W. A., While Washington Burned: The Battle for Fort Erie, 1814, 1992, reprint 2006, The Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, Charleston, South Carolina.
One of the earliest was Alexander Ross of the North West Company, who crossed the range in the summer of 1814, probably via Cascade Pass.
In 1814, the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Company completed a nail factory.
The Gurkha War ( 1814 – 1816 ), sometimes called the Gorkha War or the Anglo – Nepal War, was fought between the Kingdom of Gorkha ( now Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ) and the British East India Company as a result of border disputes and ambitious expansionism of both the belligerent parties.
A secret Greek nationalist organization called the " Friendly Society " or " Company of Friends " ( Filiki Eteria ) was formed in Odessa in 1814.
Notable actors who have portrayed Shylock include Richard Burbage in the 16th century, Charles Macklin in 1741, Edmund Kean in 1814, William Charles Macready in 1840, Edwin Booth in 1861, Henry Irving in 1880, George Arliss in 1928, John Gielgud in 1937, Laurence Olivier at the Royal National Theatre in 1972 and on TV in 1973, Patrick Stewart in 1965 at the Theatre Royal, Bristol and 1978, plus ( as Shylock ) in a one-man stage show Mr. Stewart developed entitled " Shylock: Shakespeare's Alien " in 1987 and 2001, Al Pacino in a 2004 feature film version as well as in Central Park in 2010, and F. Murray Abraham at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2006.
From 1807 to 1814, under the instructions of the government of Bengal, he made a comprehensive survey of the areas within the jurisdiction of the British East India Company.
He was appointed District Surveyor of the southern division of the City in 1810, and was elected Surveyor to the Mercers ' Company in 1814, holding both appointments until his death.
The establishment of the NHM could probably be seen as an attempt to bring new impetus to trade with the Dutch East Indies after the depression of the years of French domination ( 1795 – 1814 ) and the final collapse of the Dutch East India Company two decades earlier.
The earliest written description of these people come from the journals of Alexander Henry the younger, a fur trader with the North West Company, drawn from his and David Thompson's experiences trading in the area from 1810 to 1814:
In the Gurkha War ( 1814 – 1816 ), the tamangs along with other kirat groups waged war against the British East India Company army.
On the western front Garhwal and parts of Himachal Pradesh up to Punjab and on the eatern front the state of Sikkim up to Darjeeling became parts of Greater Nepal for a brief period until the British East India Company went on war with Nepal from 1814 to 1816.
Nepal entered into a disastrous Anglo-Nepalese War with the East India Company lasting from 1814 – 16, which was concluded with the Treaty of Sugauli, by which Nepal lost almost one-third of its land.

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